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Inequity in Health Equity
Expanding Data Collection to Advance Health Equity for Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals
Leesh Menard
Columbia University
Abstract
The push for health equity is leaving transgender (trans) and nonbinary people behind; research continues to find drastic inequities across health and health care access for trans and nonbinary people, compared to cisgender individuals, including higher suicide rates, higher instances of HIV, higher reports of a disability status, and poorer experiences in health care settings. This could be attributable to the stark lack of national, population based surveys that include explicit questions around gender identity. For this reason, it is necessary for gender identity to be enumerated on data collection policies and initiatives on a national level.
