Gender-affirming health care needs, barriers to care, and health and wellbeing in a broad nationwide sample of transgender people in Norway
Transgender people in Norway reported high levels of mental distress and suicidality. Despite being young and with low income, a large proportion had obtained gender-affirming medical treatments entirely through private funding. Transgender people in need of gender-affirming health care could benefit from increased access to care through the state-funded public health care system in Norway.
Authors
- Ilan H. Meyer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2667-4583)
- Norman Anderssen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3526-9459)
- Silje-Håvard Bolstad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2162-3948)
- Bjørge Herman Hansen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8445-8227)
Institutions
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of Agder (NO)
- University of Bergen (NO)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Public Health
- Published
- 2025-12-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-25243-1
- Primary Topic
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Universitetet i Agder