Feeling like an ‘oddity’, forced to come out: how Australian healthcare still fails to meet queer needs

Zavier Wileman had been going to the same general practice since they were a child, but once they began their transition as a teenager they began to feel like the doctors ‘just didn’t really understand gender at all’. Photograph: Frances Andrijich/The Guardian

Zavier Wileman has been going to the same general practice since they were a child. But when they began their transition as a teenager, they were made to feel “like an oddity”.

“It didn’t feel like a safe place because [the doctors] just really didn’t understand gender at all,” they say.