Gender-concordant IDs improve mental health, reduce suicidal thoughts among transgender individuals

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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