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Validated scales were used to assess students\u2019 attitudes, knowledge and beliefs and gay affirmative practice. Three open ended questions assessed beliefs regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents accessing health care for their children.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Method.\u2002<\/jats:bold> Nursing and medical students completed questionnaires about attitudes to homosexuality. Associations between variables were assessed using chi\u2010square tests of independence, and differences between nursing and medical student groups were assessed using the Mann\u2013Whitney <jats:italic>U<\/jats:italic>\u2010test or the Kruskal\u2013Wallis one\u2010way analysis of variance test. 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