While the UK has made progress on allowing transgender people to self-identify their gender, it faces some screening challenges, and has advised transgender people to self-advocate for screenings they need but are not automatically offered.
Trans People Must Ask for Cancer ScreeningsĮvening Standard reported on a new guide from the UK’s national health system on cancer screenings for transgender patients. However, when looking at how many Brits have ever had same-sex sexual relations, those numbers jump way up to over 1.2 million men and 1.3 million women, showing the importance of how sexuality questions are posed in surveys.
The article reports on clinics that are offering care (sometimes exclusively) by two-way video conferencing, helping folks in far-flung areas find trans-friendly care.Ī study found that an estimated 547,000 British men and 546,000 women aged 16-74 identified as being LGB, representing about 2.5% of the population. Vice reported on the amazing potential of telemedicine to connect transgender patients with providers who are trans-friendly and -competent, something to which many transgender people do not have access. Low CD4 count and a higher number of recent partners was associated with higher odds of having oral HPV infection. Broward County, Florida (where HealthLink calls home) banned the practice earlier this month, and Washington state is now considering such a bill New Hampshire, on the other hand, voted down a ban.Ī study of Italian men living with HIV found that anal HPV was much more prevalent than oral HPV, with 85.2% having HPV infection observed at the anal site and only 20.9% with infection at the oral cavity. News reports from all over the country gave updates on local and state bans on LGBT “conversion” therapy, which experts overwhelmingly say causes harm. One silver lining: sexual minority males were 1.88 times more likely than their peers to report having been tested for HIV. The results (and tobacco’s addictive properties) may help to explain why LGB people have such high smoking disparities later in life.Ī study of high school students in Florida found that sexual minority males were less likely than their peers to report having learned about HIV at school, and were less than half as likely to have used a condom the last time they had sex. Researchers found that queer women under 25 years old were more likely than their heterosexual peers to experiment with cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, and more queer men under 25 were more likely than their peers to experiment with cigarettes. The study adds to troubling evidence about LGBT people and tobacco products beyond cigarettes. Uninsured people and those under psychological distress were also more likely to smoke. In a national study, the CDC found that LGB adults smoke at about a one-third higher rate than do other adults, at a rate of 20.5% for LGB folks versus 15.3% for their heterosexual peers.
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