The Trump administration has ended a federal grant worth $620,288 designated for an inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program targeting transgender boys. This grant was allocated to the Center for Innovative Public Health Research by the National Institutes of Health. The funding aimed to address sexual health risks faced by transgender boys assigned female at birth, who are often excluded from sexual health initiatives. Researchers proposed to adapt existing programs to better serve this demographic, acknowledging the heightened pregnancy risks in this group, despite a significant transgender youth population in schools.
Youth who are assigned female at birth (afab) and identify as transgender ... not as girls, are at risk for negative sexual health outcomes yet are effectively excluded from sexual health programs.
This lack of programming is likely contributing to obstacles to sexual health: data suggest that afab trans-identified youth may be less likely to use condoms when having sex with people who have penises and are at least as likely as cisgender girls to be pregnant.
Collection
[
|
...
]