Healthcare avoidance due to anticipated discrimination among transgender people: A call to create trans-affirmative environments

Transgender people encounter interpersonal and structural barriers to healthcare access that contribute to their postponement or avoidance of healthcare, which can lead to poor physical and mental health outcomes. Using the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, this study examined avoidance of healthcare du...

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Main Authors: Luisa Kcomt, Kevin M. Gorey, Betty Jo Barrett, Sean Esteban McCabe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-08-01
Series:SSM: Population Health
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827320302457