Impact of Covid-19 on Transgender Persons

Objectives: The Covid-19 pandemic created significant impact and challenges particularly for vulnerable persons like transgender individuals worsening the prevailing stigma, discrimination, and exclusions against them. This review intends to assimilate the literature on the outbreak of Covid-19 and its impacts on transgender individuals across the world. Methods: A narrative literature review on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic among transgender persons has been done. Results: This review reveals that transgender persons face exclusive structural, interpersonal, and personal risks from this pandemic and its response measures, endangering their lives, livelihoods, economy, health, and wellbeing. Conclusions: Findings point to the need to design proactive and multi-level interventions that are sensitive to the unique needs of transgender individuals

Family medicine · Geography · Livelihood · Pandemic · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Social stigma · Sociology · Transgender · Feminist Theory and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Psychology

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