ArticlePloS one2023
Food insecurity in a Brazilian transgender sample during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Transgender and gender nonconforming people's vulnerability to food insecurity: systematic review and meta-synthesis.Cadernos de saude publica · 2026Pooled it
- Body mass index and body composition changes in transgender people undergoing gender-affirming hormone therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2025Pooled it
- Relationship between Food Habits, Nutritional Status, and Hormone Therapy among Transgender Adults: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2024Pooled it
- Socio-economic status and adherence to HIV preventive and therapeutic interventions: exploring the mediating role of food insecurity among men who have sex with men and transgender and non-binary persons from Brazil.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2025Article
- The impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on tuberculosis notifications and deaths in the state of São Paulo, Brazil: a cross-sectional study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2024Article
- Food insecurity, nutritional status and socioeconomic factors in the transgender population: a cross-sectional study in the Metropolitan Region of Baixada Santista, Brazil, 2023.Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil · 2024Article
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Abstract
Transgender people often live with social vulnerability, largely promoted by gender-based prejudice. Our aim in this article was to raise preliminary data on how the COVID-19 pandemic and perceived prejudice have contributed to the problem of food and food insecurity in the transgender communities in Brazil. We conducted a web-based cross-sectional study, in which 109 transgender people from all regions of Brazil participated. We used the Chi-Square test and Poisson regression modeling with robust variance to estimate the association between food insecurity and the investigated factors. In our sample, 68.8% of transgender people experienced food insecurity, of these, 20.2% experienced severe food insecurity. Our results showed that the difficulties in purchasing food in the transgender community predate the COVID-19 pandemic, yet that the restrictive measures adopted have also impacted overall access to quality food. However, the main explanations for food insecurity were income and employment. In predicting food insecurity, the experiences of prejudice must be considered, and give rise to the hypothesis that specific conditions to which transgender people are exposed explain, to some degree, their vulnerability to food insecurity.
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