Sex and gender in the US health surveillance system: a call to action

Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) data have exposed significant sexual orientation disparities in health. Interest in examining the health of transgender youths, whose gender identities or expressions are not fully congruent with their assigned sex at birth, highlights limitations of the YRBS and th...

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Published inAmerican journal of public health (1971) Vol. 104; no. 6; pp. 970 - 976
Main Authors Conron, Kerith J, Landers, Stewart J, Reisner, Sari L, Sell, Randall L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Public Health Association 01.06.2014
Subjects
Adolescent
Behavior
Children & youth
Commentaries
Epidemiology
Female
Focus groups
Gays & lesbians
Gender
Gender identity
Girls
Health disparities
Health surveillance
Humans
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Persons
Male
Massachusetts - epidemiology
Polls & surveys
Population
Population Surveillance - methods
Post traumatic stress disorder
Public health
Sexual Behavior - statistics & numerical data
Sexual orientation
Studies
Surveillance
Transgender persons
Transgender Persons - statistics & numerical data
Transsexuality
United States - epidemiology
Womens health
United States
Massachusetts
United States > US
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Summary:Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) data have exposed significant sexual orientation disparities in health. Interest in examining the health of transgender youths, whose gender identities or expressions are not fully congruent with their assigned sex at birth, highlights limitations of the YRBS and the broader US health surveillance system. In 2009, we conducted the mixed-methods Massachusetts Gender Measures Project to develop and cognitively test measures for adolescent health surveillance surveys. A promising measure of transgender status emerged through this work. Further research is needed to produce accurate measures of assigned sex at birth and several dimensions of gender to further our understanding of determinants of gender disparities in health and enable strategic responses to address them.
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K. J. Conron and S. J. Landers conceptualized the Massachusetts Gender Measures Project. K. J. Conron conducted the field work and analyzed the data. K. J. Conron and R. L. Sell framed the article, and all authors wrote it.
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ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2013.301831