Gender diverse people’s psychological wellbeing and identity in the context of gender affirming speech therapy practices: A qualitative study

1. Conduction of interviews with gender diverse people Gender diverse study participants will participate each in a single one-on-one online episodic interview which combines open-end questions and narrative prompts to encourage the interviewee to tell stories about their daily lives. Interview topics will cover the gender diverse person’s wellbeing, their identity, their voice as well as their experiences with speech therapy. Each interview will last about 90 mins. 2. Conduction of focus group discussions with speech therapists Speech therapists will participate in a single online focus group (5 participants per group) to discuss their beliefs about and perspectives on gender diverse people’s wellbeing and gender diverse people’s identity, the speech therapists' ways of working with gender diverse clients and their attitudes about providing health care for gender diverse clients. Each focus group discussion will last about 90 mins. Interviews and focus group discussions will be conducted and facilitated in German with German speaking study participants located in Germany. Interviews and focus group discussions will be audio-recorded and recordings will be transcribed verbatim. For the interviews: Analysed data will be sent to the study participants for feedback during data analysis (member reflections); study participants will be contacted to review the study results, ask for their consent and provide clarifications on their data before submitting the manuscript to a journal. For the focus groups: Study participants will be contacted to review the study results, ask for their consent and provide clarifications on their data before submitting the manuscript to a journal.