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Health and Health Care Access in the US Transgender Population Health (TransPop) Survey

May 2021

Using data from the TransPop study, this report describes and compares health and health care access among transgender, nonbinary, and cisgender participants. It compares results to previously published analyses from the 2015 US Transgender Survey and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. It appeared in Andrology in May 2021.

AUTHORS

Jamie L. Feldman
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
Winston Luhur
Research Assistant, Former
Jody L. Herman
Senior Scholar of Public Policy
Tonia C. Poteat
Associate Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill,
Ilan H. Meyer
Distinguished Senior Scholar of Public Policy

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Highlights

Despite high levels of insurance, transgender people were more likely than cisgender people to have avoided care due to cost.

Transgender people had more poor physical health days per month than cisgender people.

Transgender nonbinary people were more likely to have avoided care due to cost compared to transgender women and men.

Data Points

90%

of transgender people report having health insurance

33%

of transgender people say they avoided healthcare due to cost

15%

of cisgender people reported avoiding healthcare for the same reason

56%

of transgender people had a transgender-related health care provider

64%

of trangender people had accessed an LGBT or transgender-specific clinic or provider

82%

said they would like to visit one

15

number of days transgender people experienced poor mental health days per month

6

number of days cisgender people experienced poor mental health

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Health and Health Care Access in the US Transgender Population Health (TransPop) Survey