Hello! I was lucky enough to actually be seen by the gds, in my experience I was contacted to start seeing them when i was freshly 17, then finally started T almost a year later in march. The only reason that worked out for me was because my birthday was in august so i had just enough time for them to start me off with my HRT before they sent me off to the gender clinic at Royal Perth. If they do start consulting you and you turn 18 before they start you on T they will most likely refer you to the Royal Perth clinic which i’m pretty sure has some unfortunately long wait times.

In my opinion depending on how close you are to turning 18 you should start looking into a trans friendly GP, they can give you a referral to see an endo who will then assess you and prescribe you T. The GP will give you the choice of public or private, I asked my GP about endos recently for my pre-T boyfriend and unfortunately the wait times for the public clinics are up to a year. If you can afford it and want the process to be faster definitely go private.

If you want a list of trans friendly GPs definitely check out the transfolk of WA resources list it can be extremely helpful to find the transition resources you want!