A new study of high school students found just under three percent identify as transgender or gender nonconforming. Those students also reported being in poorer health than their peers.
Published on Monday in Pediatrics, the study analyzed data from the 2016 Minnesota Student Survey, which was conducted among 81,000 ninth and eleventh-grade public school students throughout the state. Eighty-five percent of Minnesota’s school districts participated.
Researchers found 2,168 (2.7 percent) of those students identified as transgender or gender nonconforming, compared with 78,761 who did not. This was assessed based on their answers to the question, “Do you consider yourself transgender, genderqueer, genderfluid, or unsure about your gender identity?”
Nearly sixty percent of the students who considered themselves transgender or gender nonconforming reported having long-term mental health problems. Sixty-two percent said their health was poor, fair, or good, rather than very good or excellent, compared with 33 percent of their peers who said the same. On the flip side, 67 percent of students who did not identify as transgender or gender nonconforming said their health was very good or excellent, compared with only 38 percent of transgender or gender nonconforming students.
AAN Staff
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