For over two decades, the minority stress model has guided research on the health of
sexually-diverse individuals (those who are not exclusively heterosexual) and gender …

Health disparities related to sexual orientation and gender identity exist across multiple
outcomes. Scholarship has begun to evaluate whether structural stigma—ie, societal-level …

Background: Transgender healthcare is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field. In the last
decade, there has been an unprecedented increase in the number and visibility of …

Transgender identities and health are highly politicized in the United States leading to
restrictions on relevant data collection in national health surveillance systems. This has …

Transgender and gender diverse youth (TGD) report high rates of mental health concerns.
However, there is reason to expect that among TGD youth there is variation in mental health …

Background Research shows that transmasculine people experience discrimination based
on their gender identity and/or expression (ie, cissexism) while obtaining health care …

Background According to the minority stress theory, stigma affects the health of marginalized
populations. Previous stigma research has focused on the health effects of individual and …

Stigma refers to societally-deemed inferiority associated with a circumstance, behavior,
status, or identity. It manifests internally, interpersonally, and structurally. Decades of …

Purpose Transgender adults face increasingly discriminatory laws/policies and prejudicial
attitudes in many regions of the United States (US), yet research has neither quantified state …

Background and objectives Transgender and gender diverse (trans) health research has
grown rapidly, highlighting the need to characterize the scientific evidence base. We …