HealthDay (6/20, Mundell ) reports, “Transgender and bisexual adults have rates of loneliness that are much higher than that of cisgender and heterosexual people, new data shows.” Federal health data “from 2022 finds the highest rates of self-reported loneliness among people who identify as bisexual (56.7%) or transgender (rates ranging from 56.4% to 63.9%), according to researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” This compares “to the 30.3% of straight people who said they often felt lonely, and the 32.1% of cisgender people who said they were lonely.” The results were published in the CDC’s MMWR.
MedPage Today (6/20, Robertson ) reports, “Bisexual and transgender people also reported the highest prevalence of stress (34.3% and 36.1% to 37.8%, respectively), frequent mental distress (40.5% and 37.2% to 51.8%), and history of depression (54.4% and 47.4% to 67.2%).”
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— “High Rates of Loneliness Seen Among Bisexual and Transgender People,”Ernie Mundell, HealthDay, June 20, 2024