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The Mental Health of Transgender Youth: Advances in Understanding

Connolly, Maureen D., Zervos, Marcus J., Barone, Charles J., Johnson, Christine C., Joseph, Christine L.M.·2016·Journal of Adolescent Health
DOI 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.06.012
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This review provides an update on the growing body of research related to the mental health of transgender youth that has emerged since the 2011 publication of the Institute of Medicine report on the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. The databases PubMed and Ovid Medline were searched for studies that were published from January 2011 to March 2016 in English. The following search terms were used: transgender, gender nonconforming, gender minority, gender queer, and gender dysphoria. Age limits included the terms youth, child, children, teenager*, and adolescen*. The combined search produced 654 articles of potential relevance. The resulting abstracts went through a tiered elimination system, and the remaining 15 articles, which presented quantitative data related to the prevalence of transgender youth and their mental health, were included in the present review. In addition to providing new estimates of the number of young people who identify as transgender (.17%-1.3%), studies since 2011 have shown that transgender youth have higher rates of depression, suicidality and self-harm, and eating disorders when compared with their peers. Gender-affirming medical therapy and supported social transition in childhood have been shown to correlate with improved psychological functioning for gender-variant children and adolescents. Recent research has demonstrated increased rates of psychiatric morbidity among transgender youth compared to their peers. Future work is needed to understand those youth who identify as gender nonbinary, improve methods to capture and understand diverse gender identities and related health disparities, and delineate the social determinants of such disparities.

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Authors
Connolly, M. D., Zervos, M. J., Barone, C. J., Johnson, C. C., & Joseph, C. L. M.
Affiliations
Henry Ford Health (US)
Corresponding author
Connolly, Maureen D.
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Venue
Journal of Adolescent Health
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-11
Volume
59
Issue
5
Pages
489-495
ISSN
1054-139X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.06.012
OpenAlex
W2516239258
Cited by
693
References
34
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2026: 37 · 2025: 60 · 2024: 88 · 2023: 117 · 2022: 84 · 2021: 90 · 2020: 107 · 2019: 50 · 2018: 41 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 1
FWCI
5.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Journal of Adolescent Health (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Sexuality, and Education
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
Keywords
transgender youth, mental health, gender dysphoria, gender minority youth, gender nonconforming youth, social transition, depression, suicidality, self-harm, eating disorders, psychiatric morbidity, gender identity, health disparities, social determinants of health
MeSH terms
Gender Dysphoria, Adolescent, Feeding and Eating Disorders, Child, Depression, Female, Humans, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Retrospective Studies, Suicide, Attempted, Self-Injurious Behavior, Qualitative Research, Transgender Persons

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