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Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News
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Gender Identity And Disability

In a paper published in the Disability & Health
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issue, Madeline Smith-Johnson finds that transgender adults also report
higher rates of disability than cisgender adults
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with the disparity remaining even after various demographic,
socioeconomic, and health behavior factors are controlled for.

"Transgender adults have a 27 percent chance of having at least one
disability at age twenty and a 39 percent chance at age
fifty-five"-nearly twice the rate of their cisgender counterparts at
both ages, Smith-Johnson reports.

Given evidence that having a disability and identifying as transgender
are both separately associated with increased risk for poor health
outcomes, Smith-Johnson's findings are an example of how identities
can combine to further increase health risks.

Disability status is only one of many identities an individual has, and
it does not act independently in shaping people's health opportunities
and outcomes.

Several papers in the Disability & Health
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present evidence of disparities among people with disabilities that
intersect with other marginalized identities. Read the entire Disability
& Health issue today.

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In Forefront, Carrie Henning-Smith and coauthors argue that, despite
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We are also featuring poems
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Daily Digest

Transgender Adults Have Higher Rates Of Disability Than Their Cisgender
Counterparts
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Madeline Smith-Johnson

Rural LGBTQ+ Americans Face Health Disparities, But Communities Revealed
Strengths
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Monique S. Simón et al.

 

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