Demographic and Regional Factors Associated With Reporting Homicides of Transgender People in the United States.

Autor: Fouché TW; University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois. Electronic address: tomfouche@gmail.com., Zakrison TL; University of Chicago Trauma Center, Chicago, Illinois., Schneider JA; University of Chicago Center for HIV Elimination, Chicago, Illinois., Kaufman EJ; University of Pennsylvania, Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care, & Emergency Surgery, Chicago, Illinois., Plackett TP; University of Chicago Trauma Center, Chicago, Illinois., Velopulos C; University of Colorado, Denver; Department of Surgery, Arora, Colorado., Slidell MB; University of Chicago, Pediatric Surgery, Chicago, Illinois., Voisin D; Case Western Reserve University Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Cleveland, Ohio., Hampton DA; University of Chicago Trauma Center, Chicago, Illinois., Carmichael HE; University of Colorado, Denver; Department of Surgery, Arora, Colorado., Valdés DM; University Hospital General Calixto Garcia, La Habana, Cuba., Parker C; Howard Brown Health, Chicago, Illinois., Ross B; Independent Consultant, Chicago, Illinois., Chaudhary M; University of California San Francisco, Department of Surgery, San Francisco, California., Cirone J; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, New Hampshire, Lebanon.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of surgical research [J Surg Res] 2022 Nov; Vol. 279, pp. 72-76. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jun 17.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2022.05.029
Abstrakt: Introduction: The American Medical Association recently declared homicides of transgender individuals an epidemic. However, transgender homicide victims are often classified as nontransgender. Our objective was to describe existing data and coding of trans (i.e., transgender) victims and to examine the risk factors for homicides of trans people relative to nontrans people across the United States.
Methods: A retrospective review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Violent Death Reporting System for the years 2003-2018 identified victims defined as transgender either through the "transgender" variable or narrative reports. Fisher's exact tests and logistic regression models were run to compare the demographics of trans victims to those not identified as trans.
Results: Of the 147 transgender victims identified, 14.4% were incorrectly coded as nontrans despite clear indication of trans status in the narrative description, and 6% were coded as hate crimes. Relative to nontrans victims, trans victims were more frequently Black (54.4% versus 40.7%, P = 0.001), had a mental health condition (26.5% versus 11.3%, P < 0.001), or reported being a sex worker (9.5% versus 0.2%, P < 0.001). There were disproportionately few homicides of transgender people in the South (13.6% of trans victims versus 29.1% of nontrans victims, P < 0.001). Conversely, the West and Midwest accounted for a higher-than-expected proportion of trans victims relative to nontrans victims (23.1% of trans victims versus 16.2% of nontrans victims, P = 0.03; 24.5% of trans victims versus 16.8% of nontrans victims, P = 0.02, respectively).
Conclusions: Though the murder of transgender individuals is a known public health crisis, inconsistencies still exist in the assessment and reporting of transgender status. Further, these individuals were more likely to have multiple distinct vulnerabilities. These findings provide important information for injury and violence prevention researchers to improve reporting of transgender status in the medical record and local trauma registries.
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