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What Will It Take to Reduce Suicide Among Transgender North Carolinians by 2030?

Author(s) -

Ames Simmons

Publication year - 2022

Publication title -

north carolina medical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2379-4313

pISSN - 0029-2559

DOI - 10.18043/ncm.83.3.182

Subject(s) - transgender , psychological intervention , medicaid , medicine , covid-19 , health equity , pandemic , health care , psychiatry , psychology , political science , public health , nursing , disease , pathology , psychoanalysis , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law

Transgender youth face health disparities in suicidality, which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Health care providers should advocate for upstream interventions to reduce suicide disparities, including Medicaid expansion, family acceptance therapy, improved access to name and gender marker changes, continuation of telehealth, and creation of trauma-informed schools.

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