diagnosed, even though you got it when you were 35,” Lunn said. “And then you have a heart attack or stroke at 65 or 55.” Or someone might skip a screening that would have detected cancer.
The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law says about 4.5% of U.S. adults — 11 million people — identify as LGBT; about 1.4 million people identify as transgender.
That’s a lot of people, said Dr. M. Brett Cooper, an assistant professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, but the problems they encounter are not widely discussed by the general public.
People who haven’t been discriminated against say, “‘I can’t believe this would happen!'” said Cooper, who is co-chair for the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine’s special interest group on LGBTQ health. “Well, it does. And it’s not just in the small towns. It happens in Dallas. It happens in New York City. It happens all over.”
Cooper, who led a 2018 study that showed the benefits of exposing medical students to a
