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The L.A. hospital said it has paused the initiation of hormonal therapy for “gender affirming care patients” under the age of 19, as well as any gender-affirming surgeries for minors. California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said Wednesday he was putting a Los Angeles hospital on notice that w...
Transgender people are significantly more likely to become entangled in the criminal justice system than cisgender people, due to numerous factors, including discrimination that limits their gainful employment. Unfortunately, prejudice against transgender people, as well as criminals, has resulted in indiff...
The same order that seeks to define the sexes to exclude them would also require housing transgender women in prison in men’s facilities. Additional orders could open the door to kicking transgender service members out of the military, barring the use of federal ...
Transgender-identified individuals were more likely than the rest of the sample to have received hormone injections, offensive comments, and HIV testing; injected hormones with a used needle; been Asian or American Indian; been paid for sexual intercourse; and lived in u...
The same order that seeks to define the sexes to exclude them would also require housing transgender women in prison in men’s facilities. Additional orders could open the door to kicking transgender service members out of the military, barring the use of federal taxpayer money to provide gender...
We recommend that programs targeting substance use and mental health for transgender women of Color should be combined with services that address disadvantage (i.e., lack of access to housing, income/employment, health care).Lois M. Takahashi...
This inequity is attributed to systemic barriers and structural challenges, such as housing, employment, insurance, and legal recognition, which largely reflect gendered and societal structures, placing transgender people in vulnerable positions for various health conditions [6, 9]. However, people ...
Housing instability This was measured using two questions: “Have you been homeless in the past 6 months” and “Are you worried that in the next 6 months you may not have stable housing that you own, rent, or stay in as part of a household?”. Any positive answers to the questions ...
TW also experience a disproportionately high burden of HIV, with an odds of HIV infection 48 to 66 times higher than that of other adult populations [20,21,22]. This inequity is attributed to systemic barriers and structural challenges, such as housing, employment, insurance, and legal recognit...