Employment Nondiscrimination Protection and Mental Health Among Sexual Minority Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In the 2020 Bostock v Clayton County decision, the US Supreme Court extended employment nondiscrimination protection to sexual minority adults. The health impacts of this ruling and similar policies related to sexual orientation-based discrimination are not currently known.

Objective

To estimate changes in mental health following the Bostock decision among sexual minority adults in states that gained employment nondiscrimination protection (intervention states) compared with those in states with protections already in place (control states).

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used 2018-2022 data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and a difference-in-differences approach to evaluate changes in mental health after th

SUBMITTER: Liu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11883498 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature