Gender-and sexual orientation–based inequities: promoting inclusion, visibility, and data accuracy in oncology

AB Alpert, NFN Scout, MB Schabath… - American Society of …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people, including agender, asexual, bisexual, gay,
gender diverse, genderqueer, genderfluid, intersex, lesbian, nonbinary, pansexual, queer …

Quantitative approaches to measuring structural cisgenderism

D Zubizarreta, MH Trinh, SL Reisner - Social Science & Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
There is rapidly growing interest in understanding the impacts of structural cisgenderism on
health and health inequities for transgender and nonbinary populations. This growing …

Prevalence of Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Varies at the Intersection of Gender Identity and Race/Ethnicity

LN Forrest, BL Bennett, A Beccia… - … Journal of Eating …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Prior work has documented inequities in disordered eating behavior (DEB)
prevalence across gender identity, race, and ethnicity, yet has often ignored the fact that …

Association of comprehensive menthol flavor ban with current cigarette smoking in Massachusetts from 2017 to 2021

S Asare, A Majmundar, Z Xue, A Jemal… - JAMA Internal …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Methods| We analyzed data of participants (aged≥ 25 years) from nationally representative,
cross-sectional Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) surveys of 2017 to …

Associations between state policies and sexual minority mental health disparities.

NR Todd, DM Nguyễn, AM Blackburn… - Translational Issues in …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Despite growing social acceptance, mental health disparities persist between sexual
minorities—people who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual—and heterosexuals. A growing …

Pilot study assessing gut microbial diversity among sexual and gender minority young adults

A Guy, S McAuliffe, R Cross, Y Zhang, RE Kennedy… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Evidence supports that people identifying as a sexual or gender minority (SGMs) experience
minority-related stress resulting from discrimination or expectations of prejudice, and that …

[HTML][HTML] “I felt like a freak when I would go to the doctor”: Investigating healthcare experiences across the lifespan among older LGBT and transgender/gender diverse …

R Diamant-Wilson, M Ray-Novak, B Gillani… - … Research in Medicine …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In the past several decades, the United States has enacted civil rights legislation protecting
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) populations from discrimination …

Health status and health care access among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults in the US, 2013 to 2018

M Liu, S Sandhu, SL Reisner, G Gonzales… - JAMA Internal …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Methods| This serial cross-sectional study used 2013 through 2018 NHIS data. Adult
participants were classified as lesbian or gay, bisexual, or heterosexual based on responses …

Despite higher rates of minimally recommended depression treatment, transgender and gender diverse Medicare beneficiaries with depression have poorer mental …

AM Progovac, BO Mullin, X Yang, L Kibugi… - Transgender …, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Purpose: Little is known about depression treatment for transgender and gender diverse
(TGD) older adults or TGD people with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to …

Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening by Sexual Orientation Among Low-Income Women in North Carolina

JC Spencer, BM Charlton, PK Pretsch… - Archives of Sexual …, 2024 - Springer
We sought to examine cervical cancer screening barriers by sexual orientation among low-
income women in North Carolina. The MyBodyMyTest-3 Trial recruited low-income women …