Gender-Minority Stress and Resilience Linked to Alcohol Use Among Young Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adults

Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 10:27 in Psychology & Sociology

Increased stress related to gender-minority status is associated with greater alcohol use among transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) youth and young adults, according to an innovative study. TGD people, whose gender identity differs from their sex assumed at birth, experience greater alcohol use and hazardous drinking than their cisgender and heterosexual peers.

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