Keep seeing your GP

The Gender Service medical doctors (Endocrinologist and GPwSI) can only prescribe hormones if you have a GP who can continue to look after your gender-affirming care and general health once you have been discharged from the service.

Your regular GP should:

• Look after all aspects of your health, including your gender-affirming care
• Refer you to other health care providers in the community
• Provide ongoing gender-affirming care, including:
  • Scripts for gender-affirming hormones
  • Monitoring hormone levels (with blood tests)
  • Monitoring cardiovascular risk factors and your general health

Please note when you are discharged from the Service, we provide your GP with information about your gender-affirming care and the monitoring that is required.

If you don’t feel your current GP is the right doctor to provide gender-affirming care:

• The Gender Service can provide recommendations for gender-affirming GPs, including those who prescribe gender affirming hormones.
• TransHub and AusPATH have information about how to find gender affirming GPs.