Young transgender people are at elevated risk of contracting HIV and other STDs

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Transgender adolescents and young adults, particularly trans females, are at a disproportionately high risk of contracting human immunodeficiency virus1 and other sexually transmitted diseases2.

  1. Poteat, T., Scheim, A., Xavier, J., Reisner, S. & Baral, S. (2016). Global Epidemiology of HIV Infection and Related Syndemics Affecting Transgender People. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 72 (Suppl 3). [Link] ↩︎
  2. Reisner, S.L., Vetters, R., Leclerc, M., Zaslow, S., Wolfrum, S., Shumer, D. & Mimiaga, M.J. (2015). Mental Health of Transgender Youth in Care at an Adolescent Urban Community Health Center: A Matched Retrospective Cohort Study. Journal of Adolescent Health 56 (3): 274-279. [Link] ↩︎
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