The impact of gender-affirming interventions on eating disorder diagnosis risk among transgender and gender-diverse individuals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The objective of this study is to evaluate the risk of being diagnosed with an eating disorder among transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals, specifically examining how this risk differs following gender-affirming medical therapy (GAMT).

Methods

The study utilizes electronic medical record (EMR) data from the TriNetX database. A total of 90,955 TGD individuals were identified in the TriNetX database. TGD individuals were divided into cohorts according to gender-affirming interventions they received. To assess the risk of eating disorder diagnoses across groups, we applied a Cox proportional hazards model with gender-affirming care as a time-varying covariate.

Results

Here we show that transfeminine individuals receiving hormone therapy (HT) have a

SUBMITTER: Loria M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11688434 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature