Public health initiatives and physical education policies could incorporate ways to support movement among gender-diverse youth.
Transgender and gender-diverse adolescents aged between 11 and 12 years appear to be less physically active, with lower daily step counts than their cisgender peers, according to a new analysis of data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.
Overall, 49.7% of adolescents in the study were assigned female at birth, 39.4% were from racial and ethnic minority groups, 1% identified as transgender or maybe transgender, and 16.9% were considered non-cisgender or sex-congruent based on the felt gender categorization. The average daily step count across all adolescents was 9188.
“In some ways, it’s not surprising that adolescents who identify as transgender engage in fewer steps per day than their cisgender peers,” said Ganson. “It may be that transgender adolescents experience stigma and discrimination, deterring their engagement in physical activity. They may also find more supportive environments online.
Certain changes could make physical activity more inclusive, they added, such as allowing transgender students to use the locker rooms, showers, and restrooms, where they feel the safest, as well as offering private changing areas, updating students’ names on team rosters, and ensuring that those involved in the sport know about students’ names and pronouns.to support gender and sexually diverse students in physical activity.
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