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Transgender Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Health Concerns, their Upstream Causes, and Protective Factors

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Abstract

Clear health and mortality disparities exist both in transgenderpopulations and for youth experiencing homelessness (YEH).  Transgender youth are overrepresented within populations of YEH. 1 in 100 youth is transgender, but an estimated 1 in 11 youth experiencing homelessness is transgender.  No peer-reviewed research has yet explored the structural factors that underlie health disparities experienced bytransgender YEH.

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