The Study of Transition, Outcomes, and Gender (STRONG) is a
cohort study of
health in transgender people before and during or after
gender-affirming treatment
Transgender health care, also known as gender-affirming care, includes the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of physical and mental health conditions, as well as sex reassignment therapies, for transgender individuals.Gorton N, Grubb HM (2014) ...
s such as
gender-affirming hormone therapy
Transgender hormone therapy, also called hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT), is a form of hormone therapy in which sex hormones and other hormonal medications are administered to transgender or gender nonc ...
and
gender-affirming surgery.
It is being conducted at
Kaiser Permanente sites in
Northern California
Northern California (colloquially known as NorCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. Spanning the state's northernmost 48 counties, its main population centers incl ...
,
Southern California, and
Georgia and includes over 6,000 transgender people.
The study was underway by 2015
[Quinn VP, Becerra TA, Gillespie T, Hunkeler E, Baird T, Baisch NM, Owen-Smith A, Roblin D, Stephenson R, Tangpricha V, Valentine C, Goodman M. Embedding Patients, Providers, and Community Stakeholders in Research to Improve Transgender Health. J Patient Cent Res Rev 2015;2:114–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.17294/2330-0698.1137] and the first paper for the study was published in 2017.
The STRONG cohort represents the largest cohort of transgender people studied to date and the first such large-scale study conducted in the United States.
STRONG has published papers assessing transgender
population size and
demographics,
agreement between
electronic medical records and self-reported
gender identity,
gender dysphoria
Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to a mismatch between their gender identitytheir personal sense of their own genderand their sex assigned at birth. The diagnostic label gender identity disorder (GID) was used until ...
and
mental health,
,
"
passing Passing may refer to:
Social identity
* Passing (sociology), presenting oneself as a member of another sociological group
** Passing (gender), presenting oneself as being cisgender
** Passing (racial identity), presenting oneself as a member ...
" and mental health,
progression of gender dysphoria in
transgender youth,
parameters,
parameters,
risk,
risk,
health,
risk,
and cancer risk.
See also
*
European Network for the Investigation of Gender Incongruence The European Network for the Investigation of Gender Incongruence (ENIGI) is a collaborative multicenter prospective cohort study on gender incongruence which started in 2010 and is being conducted by several transgender clinics in Europe. The cl ...
(ENIGI)
References
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