Mark Vicars Mickey Deppeler ^*

• Victoria University, Australia, Melbourne, Australia

In this paper, the authors. a cis-gender gay man and an Indigenous non-binary, two spirit person narrate their past encounters with health professionals and pursuing allied health care training as a student. Taking an autoethnographic approach from which to re-narrate how medical practitioners and students engage (or not) with the LGBTQIA+ community the first author draws on the grey documentation derived from an interaction with a consulting physician in which a telling lack of knowledge of the LGBTQ+ communality including those with diverse sex characteristics/bodies, and sexualities took the form of unconscious bias. This interaction provided the impetus from which we speak back to being a medical prognosis and the second author in this paper asks questions of the hegemonic practices that have underpinned encounters with the medical model of response in tertiary education. Our remit in this paper is to question how adequately the specific needs of the LGBTQI+ population are being addressed by the medical modal and to what extent do aspiring clinicians understand how their actions can contribute to gender and sexuality based discrimination and stigmatisation?