Characteristics of participants
Detailed characteristics are outlined in Table 1. The median age of the 486 respondents was 27 years (23, 34). Twenty respondents were aged between 50 – 67 years (presumed postmenopausal). Twenty (4.1%) of the respondents identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, 7 (1.44%) reported having a variation of sex characteristics (intersex) and a further 45 (9.26%) indicated they didn’t know if they had a variation of sex characteristics.
The median duration of testosterone GAHT of participants was 32 months (14.0, 60.5) with intramuscular testosterone undecanoate injections the most used formulation. Self-reported total testosterone concentrations from participants most recent blood tests (N=144) ranged from 0.9 nmol/L to 56 nmol/L, with a median of 16.2 nmol/L (11.9, 22.0).