Antitransgender Political Backlash Threatens Health and Access to Care

摘要

Recently, transgender people have experienced both unprecedented progress and backlash in the political arena. Transgender people of all ages experience widespread discrimination. A 2013 survey of 452 transgender Massachusetts residents found that 65% of respondents had experienced public accommodations discrimination during the past year. This discrimination was significantly associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes. The 2015 US Transgender Survey of nearly 28 000 transgender people found that in the past year, 33% of respondents had experienced antitransgender discrimination in health care, and 23% of respondents chose to forego necessary health care because of fear of discrimination. Because discrimination contributes to the health disparities that transgender people experience, public health professionals should be opposing local, state, and federal legislation that allows antitransgender discrimination.