ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2022
Transgender Adults Have Higher Rates Of Disability Than Their Cisgender Counterparts.
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- Increased vulnerability to psychological distress and suicidal ideation among transgender women with self-reported disabilities in San Francisco, California.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
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- Chronic conditions among transgender Medicare beneficiaries: Variation by race, ethnicity, and Medicaid dual-enrollment.Disability and health journal · 2025Article
- Unveiling health disparities: Diagnostic prevalences in a transgender cohort versus matched controls.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Mental health experiences in 2021 for adults with disabilities who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.Rehabilitation psychology · 2023Article
- Impairment and Disability Identity and Perceptions of Trust, Respect, and Fairness.JAMA health forum · 2023Article
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- Erratum issuedErrata.2022
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Abstract
In the US population, the burden of disability among transgender adults compared with their cisgender peers is largely unknown. This study used seven years of pooled cross-sectional data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine how disability varies by gender across age groups. I present a series of nested logistic regression models to show the adjusted probability of disability among adults. Transgender adults have a higher probability of reporting a disability compared with cisgender men and women. After confounders are controlled for, transgender adults have a 27 percent chance of having at least one disability at age twenty and a 39 percent chance at age fifty-five, which is nearly twice the rate of their cisgender counterparts at both ages. The findings show the importance of considering disability from a life-course perspective, the effect of intersectional identities on disability risk, and the urgency of targeted health interventions for transgender people in the US.
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