Background Members of the transgender community have identified healthcare access
barriers, yet a corresponding inquiry into healthcare provider perspectives has lagged. Our aim …

Intersectionality theory, developed to address the non-additivity of effects of sex/gender and
race/ethnicity but extendable to other domains, allows for the potential to study health and …

For people who are transgender, transsexual, or transitioned (trans), access to primary,
emergency, and transition-related health care is often problematic. Results from Phase I of the …

Background Intersectionality is a theoretical framework rooted in the premise that human
experience is jointly shaped by multiple social positions (eg race, gender), and cannot be …

Background Across Europe, Canada, and the United States, 22–43 % of transgender (trans)
people report a history of suicide attempts. We aimed to identify intervenable factors (related …

Study objective Transgender, transsexual, or transitioned (trans) people have reported
avoiding medical care because of negative experiences or fear of such experiences. The extent …

Given that an estimated 0.6% of the US population is transgender (trans) and that large
health disparities for this population have been documented, government and research …

Objective. We sought to determine whether lesbians have higher rates of overweight and
obesity than women of other sexual orientations. Methods. We compared population estimates …

PURPOSE: To examine the performance of various items measuring sexual orientation
within 8 school-based adolescent health surveys in the United States and Canada from 1986 …

Objectives. We examined the extent of nonprescribed hormone use and self-performed
surgeries among transgender or transsexual (trans) people in Ontario, Canada. Methods. We …