Age at First Experience of Gender Dysphoria Among Transgender Adults Seeking Gender-Affirming Surgery.
cross_sectional · Level IV
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 32176303.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.1236 and PMC identifier 7076333.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
This cross-sectional study examines the age at which US transgender adults first experienced gender dysphoria and the number of life-years that transgender adults lived with untreated gender dysphoria and its comorbidities before seeking gender-affirming surgery.
Medical subject headings
- Age Factors
- Age of Onset
- Gender Dysphoria
- Gender-Affirming Surgery
- Transgender Persons