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How Do Eating Disorders Impact the LGBTQ Community?

Eating disorders are complex, potentially deadly illnesses that affect people of every race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic background. Despite research showing the prevalence of eating disorders across populations1, many people continue to see these conditions as exclusive to young, white, heterosexual, and cisgender females. Misconceptions about eating disorders, who they affect, and […]

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Eating Disorders and Transgender Youth

How Eating Disorders Affect Transgender Youth According to a 2016 analysis by The Williams Institute, roughly 1.4 million people in the United States identify as transgender. Typically, most people begin developing their gender identity as early as two years old. For most, their gender identity aligns with the sex in which they were born. However,

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Eating Disorders Are More Common For Transgender Youth

Historically, eating disorders have been associated with young, heterosexual females. However, we are now beginning to recognize that body image issues and eating disorders affect all demographic backgrounds. Eating disorders are a serious, and sometimes deadly, mental health condition that appear among all socio-economic statuses, sexual orientations, and ethnic backgrounds. In particular, the rates of

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LGBTQ+ and Advice to Eating Disorder Treatment Providers

Guest contributor: Lee R. When asked to write this blog post, I turned immediately to my good friend Google to look up some statistics and check out the latest research. What I found, or what I did not find, was revealing, albeit not entirely surprising to me. Google Scholar turned up 1,360 results for the

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