Transgender-Specific Adolescent Mental Health Provider Availability is Substantially Lower in States with More Restrictive Policies.
Nathan L HollinsaidMaggi A PriceJohn E PachankisPublished in: Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 (2022)
Transgender adolescents appear to have access to considerably fewer transgender-specific mental health providers in states with more restrictive laws/policies for transgender people, which may compound their already high mental health burden in these contexts. Intervention and policy efforts are needed to address these shortages, particularly in states with increasingly prohibitive laws/policies targeting transgender adolescents.