Access to identity documents that reflected transgender individuals’ identified gender helped to improve their mental health and reduced suicidal thoughts, according to results of a cross-sectional observational study published in The Lancet Public Health.
“Only 11% of transgender individuals had their preferred name and gender markers on all IDs, but this group saw a marked reduction in serious psychological distress and suicide ideation,” Ayden Scheim, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, told Healio Psychiatry.
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