About the Authors

Seán Kearns

Contributed equally to this work with: Seán Kearns, Karl Neff

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

sean.kearns@ucd.ie, sean.kearns1@ucdconnect.ie

Affiliations School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, National Gender Service, St Columcille’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Thilo Kroll

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Education and Innovation in Health Systems, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Donal O‘Shea

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, National Gender Service, St Columcille’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Karl Neff

Contributed equally to this work with: Seán Kearns, Karl Neff

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, National Gender Service, St Columcille’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.