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This chapter includes three sections. First, it presents the limitations of demographic data in those who identify as transgendered related to obesity, supporting inclusion and integration of transgender identification in future federal census and other surveys. Next, is the history of transgender in large scale surveys in the U.S. This will include the process of implementing new categories in federal and large-scale research, identifying the federal, large-scale surveys and their questions addressing sex and gender that include obesity, and the process of initiating a two-stage gender identification in surveys including the General Social Survey. Smaller surveys addressing sexuality/gender and obesity are also included. Next, is a review of the limited empirical research findings to date. The chapter concludes with an examination of obesity in the transgendered using BRSS data from 2020. This analysis supports the intersectionality of issues affecting obesity in the three transgendered populations, Male to female, Female to Male, and the Nonconforming. Multinomial logistic regression models support the intersectionality of social determinates of health-class, race, education, and income affecting the relationship of gender identity and obesity Finally, we use available data to outline work group efforts to increase needed/possible data regarding gender issues.
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We conducted a JSTOR search in February 2021 using the terms “transgender” and “obesity.” We found 231 articles with 175 written from 2010 to 2021. From these articles we reviewed those involving a demographic analysis of survey and administrative data to examine the relationships between transgender and obesity.
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Davis, M.A., Compton, D., Farris, N. (2022). Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Across Gender Identities. In: Garcia-Alexander, G., Poston, Jr., D.L. (eds) International Handbook of the Demography of Obesity. International Handbooks of Population, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10936-2_19
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