Screening programs overlook transgender people

Screening programs overlook transgender people.

Structural Connectivity Networks of Transgender People

Although previous investigations of transsexual people have focused on regional brain alterations, evaluations on a network level, especially those structural in nature, are largely missing. Therefore, we investigated the structural connectome of 23 female-to-male (FtM) and 21 male-to-female (MtF) transgender patients before hormone therapy as compared with 25 female and 25 male healthy control...

Ensuring an inclusive global health agenda for transgender people

Perspectives There is a growing commitment in public health to understand and improve the health and well-being of transgender people and other gender minorities, who comprise an estimated 0.3–0.5% (25 million) of the global population. 1 The adoption of The 2030 agenda for sustainable development and its pledge to " leave no one behind " has given renewed impetus to this movement. 2 Transgende...

Violence against transgender people: A review of United States data

Article history: Transgender people face ma Received 14 December 2007 Received in revised form 31 December 2008 Accepted 20 January 2009 Available online 24 January 2009

Transgender people: health at the margins of society.

In this paper we examine the social and legal conditions in which many transgender people (often called trans people) live, and the medical perspectives that frame the provision of health care for transgender people across much of the world. Modern research shows much higher numbers of transgender people than were apparent in earlier clinic-based studies, as well as biological factors associate...