Global Health Burden and Needs of Transgender Populations: A Review
By S. Reisner, Tonia Poteat, J. Keatley, Mauro Cabral, Tampose Mothopeng, Emilia Dunham, C. Holland, Ryan J Max, S. Baral. The Lancet, 2016
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Summary Transgender people are a diverse population affected by a variety of negative health indicators across high, middle, and low income settings. Studies consistently document high prevalence of adverse health outcomes in this population, including HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), mental health distress, and substance use and abuse. However, many other health areas remain understudied, population-based representative samples and longitudinal studies are lacking, and routine surveillance efforts for transgender population health are scarce. The absence of survey items with which to identify transgender respondents in general surveys often limits availability of data to estimate the magnitude of health inequities and characterize transgender population-level health globally. Despite limitations, there are sufficient data highlighting the unique biological, behavioral, social, and structural contextual factors surrounding health risks and resiliencies for transgender people. To mitigate these risks and foster resilience, a comprehensive approach is needed that includes gender affirmation as a public health framework, improved health systems and access to healthcare informed by high quality data, and effectively partnering with local transgender communities to ensure responsiveness of and cultural specificity in programming. Transgender health underscores the need to explicitly consider sex and gender pathways in epidemiologic research and public health surveillance more broadly.
Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- Hearing Gender: Voice-Based Gender Classification Processes and Transgender Health Inequality (2019, background): “Both the transgender population in general (FredriksenGoldsen et al. 2014; Meyer et al. 2017; Reisner et al. 2016) and the gender-nonconforming subpopulation in particular are characterized by worse overall health patterns than the cisgender population (Lagos 2018; Miller and Grollman 2015).”