Desire for Gender-Affirming Medical Care Before Age 18 in Transgender and Nonbinary Young Adults.

ABSTRACT: Purpose: We aimed to understand transgender and nonbinary (TNB) young adults' desire to receive gender-affirming medical care (GAMC) before age 18 and identify barriers and facilitators to receiving this care in adolescence. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was administered to TNB young adults presenting for care between ages 18 and 20 in 2023. Descriptive statistics characterized the sample, χ² tests with post hoc pairwise comparisons identified differences in desire for gender-affirming medications, outness, and parental consent by gender identity and sex assigned at birth, and t-tests evaluated differences in barriers and facilitators to receiving care by outness to parents. Results: A total of 230 TNB respondents had c

SUBMITTER: Sequeira GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11599462 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature