A Scoping Review of Health Outcomes Among Transgender Migrants. | Semantic Scholar (2024)

Future interventions should focus on fostering social support networks of SGM migrant women to help improve their mental health outcomes and research priorities should include studies on SMW migrants and more quantitative research that could identify additional health needs (i.e., sexual health).

This commentary builds on existing literature and experiences at a safety-net community health system that sees a high volume of Brazilian patients to discuss challenges facing TGD Brazilian immigrant populations, and recommends more coordinated efforts between health care and community organizations to help ensure the health and wellness of TGD Brazilian immigrants in the United States.

A semi-structured interview protocol was developed, grounded in the perspectives of minority stress and intersectionality, and participants demonstrated positive individuation, linked to gender affirmation treatments and religious protective factors.

Using the concept of trans erasure, the experiences of TNB people with access to primary SRH care in the Netherlands are investigated and howTNB people are put at risk of adverse SRH outcomes is highlighted.

High acceptability, feasibility and preliminary efficacy of an arts- and theatre-based intervention for increasing HIV knowledge and HIV risk-reduction self-efficacy among MSM and TGW migrants in South Africa are demonstrated.

This feasibility trial will determine whether a multi-site cluster randomized comparative effectiveness trial of an adaptable community-based psychosocial intervention for migrant and host community women is relevant, acceptable, and feasible.

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Methodological challenges, gaps, and opportunities in US transgender health research are described, including standardization of lexicon, agreed upon population definitions, study design, sampling, measurement, outcome ascertainment, and sample size.

Health promotion practitioners can play an important role in serving this silent minority by expanding community-based research focused on the intersection of transgender, ethnic minority, and socioeconomic status and creating a network of service organizations that understand the needs of transgender asylum seekers.

Transgender participants had higher levels of recalled childhood gender nonconformity age’s< 11years and current socially assigned gender non Conformity and were more likely to have ever identified as not completely heterosexual and no problems with item comprehension were found for cisgender or gender minority participants.

For undocumented transgender Latinas, legal asylum appears to be a promising HIV-related protective factor and further research could assess whether legal assistance combined with wraparound support services affects HIV prevention for this population.

The National Institutes of Health asked the Institute of Medicine to assess current knowledge of the health status of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations; to identify research gaps and opportunities; and to outline a research agenda to help NIH focus its research in this area.

Additional social protections for transgender individuals and antidiscrimination measures in Mexican schools and workplaces are warranted as are increased mental health assessment and treatment, job training, and education services for asylum seekers in the United States.

It is revealed that transgender women of color who engage in sex work have unique needs and experiences that must be addressed through structural and social network-based interventions to minimize their vulnerability to social and public health harms.

There was a noticeable growth of research in transgender health in the last decade and researchers from different world regions need to get involved in health and human rights research of transgender community.

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