Gender Identity Service

Welcome to the Leeds Gender Identity Service. We offer support and assessment for people aged 18 and above who experience gender dysphoria.

Our team is here to help you through your journey, providing appointments either by phone, online, or face-to-face.

Our team

We’re a diverse bunch at the Leeds Gender Identity Service. Our team consists of:

• Consultant clinical psychologists and clinical psychologists who assess for a gender dysphoria/incongruence and readiness to progress onto the care pathway. They also provide opinions for surgery. Their team also provide psychology if this is recommended from within the service. See the Easy Read version: Role of the psychologist in the Leeds Gender Service.
• Consultant psychiatrists or psychiatrists who assess for the gender dysphoria/incongruence and the readiness to progress onto the care pathway. They also provide opinions for surgery. Some of our Consultant Psychiatrists can also recommend hormone prescriptions to your GP.  See the Easy Read version: Role of a lead clinician in the Leeds Gender Service.
• Consultant endocrinologists (doctors that specialise in hormone treatment) providing hormone assessment/specialist advice and recommendation for hormone prescriptions. See the Easy Read version: Role of a hormone clinician in the Leeds Gender Service.
• Doctors with special interest in endocrinology, who also provide hormone assessment and recommendation/advice for hormone prescriptions.
• Our pharmacist works alongside the prescribing clinic in a non-medical prescribing role, seeing individuals in the prescribing clinic for the recommendation of hormone prescriptions.
• Gender Identity Specialist Nurses see people through the assessment process providing support and six-monthly appointments to those people accessing the service care pathway. Some of our clinical nurses can also recommend hormone prescriptions. See the Easy Read version: Role of a Gender Identity Specialist Nurse.
• Speech and language therapists who provide therapy sessions with the goal of finding a voice that reflects who you are. See the Easy Read version: Role of a speech and language therapist in the Leeds Gender Service.
• Gender outreach workers who provide peer support and advice primarily to those people waiting to access the service via one-to-one appointments and groups either online or in person.  See the Easy Read version: Role of the gender outreach workers in the Leeds Gender Service.