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Tobacco use among transgender and gender non-binary youth in Brazil
Fontanari,Anna Martha Vaitses; Churchill,Siobhan; Schneider,Maiko Abel; Soll,Bianca; Costa,Angelo Brandelli; Lobato,Maria Inês RodriguesAbstract Transgender and gender non-binary youth are particularly vulnerable to tobacco smoking and susceptible to smoking adverse health outcomes. That is, they are in special risk to start smoking and, after starting, they may face worse outcomes when comparing to their cisgender peers. Therefore, the present study aims to evaluate factors associated with tobacco use among transgender and gender non-binary yo...
Gender dysphoria: prejudice from childhood to adulthood, but no impact on infla...
Real,André Gonzales; Fontanari,Anna Martha Vaitses; Costa,Angelo Brandelli; Soll,Bianca Machado Borba; Bristot,Giovana; de Oliveira,Larissa FagundesAbstract Introduction Gender dysphoria (GD) is characterized by a marked incongruence between experienced gender and one’s gender assigned at birth. Transsexual individuals present a higher prevalence of psychiatric disorders when compared to non-transsexual populations, and it has been proposed that minority stress, i.e., discrimination or prejudice, has a relevant impact on these outcomes. Transsexuals also s...