Health Affairs March 31, 2025
Editor’s Note
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund. Articles in this topic will offer timely analysis of regulatory, legislative, and judicial developments in health policy under the Trump-Vance Administration and the 119th Congress.
Mounting empirical evidence in the past decade has demonstrated the harmful effects of discriminatory policies and practices on the physical and mental health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) populations. Experts have attributed such outcomes to minority stress (i.e., the stress experienced due to stigma and discrimination), the gatekeeping of or inaccessibility to necessary health care, and the imposition of harmful discredited care on youth...
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