Growing Uncertainty About the Future of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQI+ Service June 11, 2025 Issue Brief This brief reviews the latest data on the 988 LGBTQI+ service and explores its future, including recent uncertainties.
Utilization of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ Service May 23, 2024 Issue Brief This analysis examines performance metrics to assess utilization of 988’s LGBTQ service (which SAMHSA refers to as the LGBTQI+ subnetwork), compared to usage of 988’s main service, from December 2023 to March 2024 (the most current and comprehensive data available). It finds high demand for the specialty services but also certain challenges (e.g. higher call abandonment rates and longer call wait times than for the main 988 service).
Half of All U.S. States Limit or Prohibit Youth Access to Gender Affirming Care May 29, 2024 Issue Brief As of May 21, 2024, half of all U.S. states have enacted a law that prohibits or limits youth access to gender affirming care. This Data Note examines the uptick in this lawmaking, which was slow at first but then quickened, increasing 7-fold in an eight-month period in 2023.
Policy Tracker: Youth Access to Gender Affirming Care and State Policy Restrictions April 22, 2024 Dashboard This tracker provides an overview of state laws/policies restricting minor access to gender affirming care and any associated litigation by state, identifying which groups of people are impacted in addition to minors, the types of penalties providers face, the status of legal challenges, and other key information.
The Proliferation of State Actions Limiting Youth Access to Gender Affirming Care January 31, 2024 Blog Over the past 18 months, there has been a rapid increase in the number of states that have enacted laws and other policies that prohibit or restrict minor access to gender affirming care. This policy watch summarizes state policy developments aimed at restricting minor access to gender affirming care as well as the litigation challenging it. as of January 30, 2024.
Trans People in the U.S.: Identities, Demographics, and Wellbeing September 28, 2023 Issue Brief The recently released KFF/Washington Post Trans Survey is the most in-depth, representative survey of transgender adults living in the U.S. Building on that report, and using the survey data, this analysis provides the most comprehensive representative profile of trans Americans ever complied, while also offering insights on their experiences in the health care system.
LGBT Adults’ Experiences with Discrimination and Health Care Disparities: Findings from the KFF Survey of Racism, Discrimination, and Health April 2, 2024 Poll Finding This report focuses on LGBT adults’ experiences with discrimination in their daily lives and reveals that LGBT adults are more likely than non-LGBT adults to report experiences with discrimination and unfair treatment in health care. It also examines LGBT adults’ experiences with mental health, accessing care, and homelessness.
Mental Health Care Needs and Experiences Among LGBT+ People June 30, 2023 Issue Brief In this report, we examine LGBT+ people’s needs for and experiences accessing mental health care by analyzing data from a nationally representative 2022 KFF survey with a large sample of LGBT+ adults.
Survey: LGBT Adults Are Twice as Likely as Others to Say They’ve Been Treated Unfairly or with Disrespect by a Doctor or Other Health Care Provider April 2, 2024 News Release A third (33%) of LGBT adults say that a doctor or other health care provider treated them unfairly or with disrespect in the past three years – a rate twice as high as reported by people who don’t identify as LGBT (15%), a new KFF survey reveals. The shares who…
New KFF Tracker Finds the Number of States with Restrictions on Youth Access to Gender Affirming Care Grew Five-fold Over the Last 18 Months January 31, 2024 News Release A new KFF resource tracks dozens of state laws and policies that restrict access to gender-affirming care among young people. Gender-affirming care supports and affirms gender identity through social, psychological, behavioral, or medical interventions. As state laws and policies restricting youth access to gender-affirming care proliferate, KFF’s new tracker assesses…