Healio (3/20, Gramigna) reported, “Access to identity documents that reflected transgender individuals’ identified gender helped to improve their mental health and reduced suicidal thoughts,” investigators concluded after obtaining and analyzing data derived from “27,715 participants in the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey.” The study revealed that while just “11% of transgender individuals had their preferred name and gender markers on all IDs…this group saw a marked reduction in serious psychological distress and suicide ideation.” The findings of the “cross-sectional observational study” were published online March 16 in The Lancet Public Health.
Related Links:
— “Gender-concordant IDs improve mental health, reduce suicidal thoughts among transgender individuals, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, March 20, 2020