Transgender Care Is Family Medicine: A Call to Action

Currently in the United States, transgender * individuals account for 1.6 million people 13 years of age and older. 1 Unfortunately, they face a litany of health disparities when compared to their cisgender counterparts, including higher rates of death and disability from a variety of causes. 2,3The most notable discrepancies involve mental health conditions, with one study finding that transgender adults were more than six times as likely to have had suicidal ideation and more than four times as likely to have attempted suicide in their lifetimes. 4