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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: The Burden of Morbidity Among Transgender People
Description: Recent reports suggest about six-tenths of a percent of the United States population, or 1.4 million people, identify as transgender. Transgender individuals are people whose personal and gender identity are different from the gender they were thought to be at birth. Good information about the health status of this group has been hard to come by although research is growing. Some data come from Medicare, which is useful but not representative of the population as a whole.Landon Hughes, a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan, joins A Health Podyssey to discuss a paper he...