They centre lived experience and aim to provide you with up-to-date information, share collective knowledge, and help you to find community and relevant resources.

What does co-designed mean? This means that we recruited trans and gender diverse folk with endometriosis and facilitated an online space where they were actively involved in making decisions about the contents and wording of these resources.

This project involved researchers from Western Sydney University, Monash University and was generously funded by Endometriosis Australia.

This series includes three co-designed resources:

This resource uses non-gendered, accessible, and medically accurate language to describe bodies and experiences. This includes terms like uterus, menstruation or period.

We recognise that language is deeply personal and is always growing and changing. If these terms don’t feel right for you, we encourage you to use – and ask others to use – words that feel more comfortable and affirm your gender.