Trans-identified people have higher than average rates of all mental illnesses.

A study¹ of the medical records of 10,270 trans-identified patients found that 58% had at least one psychiatric diagnosis. This compares to just 13.6% of patients without trans identities. Trans-identified patients showed greater prevalence of every psychiatric condition queried, with major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder being the most common diagnoses (31% and 12%, respectively). There was also an increased lifetime prevalence of bipolar disorder (11%) and psychotic disorders (4.7% overall, 2.5% for schizophrenia and 2.2% for schizoaffective disorder) in trans-identified patients.

1. Wanta JW, Niforatos JD, Durbak E, Viguera A, Altinay M. Mental Health Diagnoses Among Transgender Patients in the Clinical Setting: An All-Payer Electronic Health Record Study. Transgender Health. 2019 Nov 1;4(1):313-315. doi: 10.1089/trgh.2019.0029. PMID: 31701012; PMCID: PMC6830528. ↩︎