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Impact of Covid-19 on Transgender Persons: The Need for an Inclusive Approach
1Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Integrated Medical Sciences (Govt. Medical College), Palakkad, India.
Objectives:
The Covid-19 pandemic created significant impact and challenges particularly for vulnerable persons like transgender individuals worsening the prevailing stigma, discrimination, and exclusions against them. This review intends to assimilate the literature on the outbreak of Covid-19 and its impacts on transgender individuals across the world.
Methods:
A narrative literature review on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic among transgender persons has been done.
Results:
This review reveals that transgender persons face exclusive structural, interpersonal, and personal risks from this pandemic and its response measures, endangering their lives, livelihoods, economy, health, and wellbeing.
Conclusions:
Findings point to the need to design proactive and multi-level interventions that are sensitive to the unique needs of transgender individuals.
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