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Eating Disorders in Transgender People

By Lauren Muhlheim — 2021

Eating disorders have historically been believed to primarily afflict heterosexual, affluent, cisgender, thin, white women. This inaccurate stereotype decreases the likelihood that people with eating disorders who are same/similar gender attracted, low-income, of color, fat, and/or transgender will be diagnosed and receive quality treatment.

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