Trans Personen leiden unter der Pandemie. Das zeigen aktuelle Arbeiten aus unserer Forschungsgruppe. So kam es beispielsweise zu Einschränkungen beim Zugang zu medizinischer Versorgung. Die Schwierigkeiten waren größer für Personen, die in versorgungsschwachen Regionen lebten. Zu den Auswirkungen der COVID-19 Pandemie auf die Trans-Gesundheitsversorgung wurde PD Dr. Timo Nieder von CNN anlässlich des Internationalen Frauentags interviewt. Lesen Sie hier den Beitrag. Die vollständige Story können Sie bei CNN nachlesen.
‘Transgender healthcare services were considered elective and as such were postponed due to the pandemic’
Timo O. Nieder, associate professor at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and author of a study on the impact of Covid on transgender health care in upper-middle-income and high-income countries.
Our study, conducted in 63 upper-middle-income and high-income countries, showed that transgender people suffered under the severity of the pandemic, especially due to the intersections between their status as a vulnerable social group, their high number of medical risk factors, and their need for ongoing medical treatment.
For example, trans people experienced restrictions in access to transgender health care such as hormone prescriptions. Such services were considered elective and thus were postponed due to the pandemic. The difficulties were greater for people who lived in regions with low-level transgender healthcare provision.
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, 35.1% of the participants in our study reported suicidal thoughts. And 168 reported having attempted suicide during this time.
Since the CNN report also lists “mental health” and “access to health care” among the areas where women experience more pandemic-related disadvantage compared to men, an overlap between bias against women and transgender people stands to reason. The pandemic has exacerbated both the extent of unfair disadvantage and the difficulties that accompany it.
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