Quantitative approaches to measuring structural cisgenderism

Dougie Zubizarreta; Mai-Han Trinh; Sari L Reisner

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116437

Quantitative approaches to measuring structural cisgenderism

Soc Sci Med. 2024 Jan:340:116437. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116437. Epub 2023 Nov 19.

Authors

Dougie Zubizarreta¹, Mai-Han Trinh², Sari L Reisner³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: dzubizarreta@hsph.harvard.edu.
² Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, MA, USA.

PMID: 38000173
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116437

Abstract

There is rapidly growing interest in understanding the impacts of structural cisgenderism on health and health inequities for transgender and nonbinary populations. This growing interest has led to an influx of novel measures of structural cisgenderism. In this commentary, we discuss and identify gaps in existing measures and offer considerations for the development of future measures. Developing and utilizing valid measures of structural cisgenderism is crucial to quantify its impacts on health and health inequities, and to inform public health interventions, laws, and policies to eliminate gender identity and modality-based health inequities.

Keywords: Health inequities; Measurement; Social epidemiology; Structural cisgenderism; Transgender health.

MeSH terms

Female
Gender Identity*
Health Policy
Humans
Male
Public Health
Research Design
Transgender Persons*