Sexuality News

ATLANTA — Research presented at the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference highlighted that approximately one in 14 high school students in Washington, D.C., have exchanged sex for housing, food and other items of value. Youth with unstable housing were nearly 11 times more likely to engage in this behavior.

Australian adults who identify as transgender are more likely than cisgender individuals to have mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety and ADHD, according to findings published in Transgender Health.

ORLANDO Fla. — In this video perspective, Michelle Forcier, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics and assistant dean of medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, discusses the AAP’s recent policy statement supporting the need for “gender-affirming care” for youth.

Between 30% and 51% of transgender teenagers have previously attempted suicide, with the highest rates reported for those who identified as transgender male and nonbinary, according to research published in Pediatrics.

Young people who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual were more likely to use more than one substance — such as alcohol, marijuana and cigarettes — compared with heterosexual youth, findings published in Drug & Alcohol Dependence revealed.

Results from a secondary analysis of a placebo-controlled trial demonstrated that Latuda was not tied to treatment-related sexual dysfunction in patients with major depressive disorder and mixed features.

Adolescents who identify as a sexual minority made up almost one-third of first-time, court-involved, nonincarcerated youth, researchers reported. Depression, self-harm and alcohol and drug use are also more frequently reported among the cohort, according to recently published study results.

Findings published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy showed that postcoital dysphoria was more prevalent among men than previously believed.

WASHINGTON — There is a “durable, biological underpinning” to gender identity that should be considered in any policy determinations that impact transgender people, including antidiscrimination legislation and the coverage of medically necessary treatments for gender incongruence, according to several speakers at an Endocrine Society congressional briefing on transgender health.

WHO has added compulsive sexual behavior disorder as an impulse control disorder to the International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision.