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Transgender Clients' Travel Distance to Preferred Health Care: A Clinic-Specific Study
Rebecca McGarity-Palmer1, Anne Saw1
1Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Purpose:
To examine distance traveled to an urban community health center by gender-expansive and cisgender participants.
Methods:
Client-reported zip code of residence from archival data (N=2677) was used. A chi-square test of independence and a Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test were conducted.
Results:
Gender-expansive clients travel farther to access health care from this clinic; this is true for clients who live within the city, within the state, and in the neighboring states.
Conclusion:
Trans people experience travel distance as a barrier to accessing quality health care. Broadening telehealth services and working with rural health care providers to develop transition-related health care knowledge are key.
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