Dr Michelle Tollit
Dr Michelle Tollit
Details
Role
Team Leader / Senior Research Fellow
Research area
Clinical Sciences
Group
Transgender Health
Michelle Tollit is a Senior Research Officer at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is also the Evaluation Co-ordinator at the Royal Children’s Hospital Gender Service, and holds an Honorary Senior Fellow appointment with the Department of Paediatrics, the University of Melbourne.
Michelle has taken a lead role on the Trans20 study, the first comprehensive longitudinal clinical study of trans children and adolescents in Australia. She brings over 20 years of research experience in child and adolescent health and wellbeing research working across intervention and longitudinal observational research, and has worked in trans health research since 2015.
Through her research, Michelle endeavours to better understand the health care needs of trans and gender diverse children and adolescents as well as outcomes of treatment provision to inform clinical care for trans and gender diverse young people.
Michelle has taken a lead role on the Trans20 study, the first comprehensive longitudinal clinical study of trans children and adolescents in Australia. She brings over 20 years of research experience in child and adolescent health and wellbeing research working across intervention and longitudinal observational research, and has worked in trans health research since 2015.
Through her research, Michelle endeavours to better understand the health care needs of trans and gender diverse children and adolescents as well as outcomes of treatment provision to inform clinical care for trans and gender diverse young people.
Michelle Tollit is a Senior Research Officer at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is also the Evaluation Co-ordinator at the Royal Children’s Hospital Gender Service, and holds an Honorary Senior Fellow appointment with the Department of...
Michelle Tollit is a Senior Research Officer at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is also the Evaluation Co-ordinator at the Royal Children’s Hospital Gender Service, and holds an Honorary Senior Fellow appointment with the Department of Paediatrics, the University of Melbourne.
Michelle has taken a lead role on the Trans20 study, the first comprehensive longitudinal clinical study of trans children and adolescents in Australia. She brings over 20 years of research experience in child and adolescent health and wellbeing research working across intervention and longitudinal observational research, and has worked in trans health research since 2015.
Through her research, Michelle endeavours to better understand the health care needs of trans and gender diverse children and adolescents as well as outcomes of treatment provision to inform clinical care for trans and gender diverse young people.
Michelle has taken a lead role on the Trans20 study, the first comprehensive longitudinal clinical study of trans children and adolescents in Australia. She brings over 20 years of research experience in child and adolescent health and wellbeing research working across intervention and longitudinal observational research, and has worked in trans health research since 2015.
Through her research, Michelle endeavours to better understand the health care needs of trans and gender diverse children and adolescents as well as outcomes of treatment provision to inform clinical care for trans and gender diverse young people.
Top Publications
- Wijesuriya, R, Buckingham, P, Betancur, MM, Dashti, S, Becker, D, Ravipati, C, Pace, C, Hay, S, De Ieso, T, Conabere, W, et al. Comparative effectiveness of gender affirming hormones on body image, gender dysphoria, trans pride, mental health and quality of life in trans and gender diverse adolescents: a target trial emulation (statistical analysis protocol). 2026 view publication
- Tollit, MA, Sawyer, SM, Ratnapalan, S, Barnett, T. Education support services for improving school engagement and academic performance of children and adolescents with a chronic health condition. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2026 view publication
- Blacklock, CA, Tollit, MA, Pace, CC, Elphinstone, B, Zwickl, S, Cheung, AS, Citron, K, Marsan, S, Zucker, N, Buzwell, S, et al. The Gender Euphoria Scale (GES): Development of a tool to measure gender euphoria.. Int J Transgend Health 27(1) : 447 -458 2026 view publication
- Chinsen, A, Tollit, MA, Heye, PL, Pang, KC, Cronin, TJ, Pace, CC. “I could be one of those people that’s alive and happy”: a qualitative exploration of a co-designed group therapy program targeting gender minority stress for trans young people (TAG TEAM). International Journal of Transgender Health ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print) : 1 -17 2026 view publication
- Kahn, FK, Wiepjes, CM, Colon-Cabrera, D, Tollit, MA, Hoq, M, Feldman, D, Ravine, A, Lane, R, Steensma, TD, Pang, KC. Effect of assigned sex on the age at which individuals seek specialist gender affirming care. International Journal of Transgender Health ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print) : 1 -8 2026 view publication
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