Sexually transmitted infections and transgender people

Transgender people are considered a high-risk group for certain sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

Via Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• A 2017 paper used meta-analysis and synthesized national surveys to estimate that 1 million adults in the United States are transgender.^a
• From 2009 to 2014, 2,351 transgender people were diagnosed with HIV in the United States.^b
• Eighty-four percent (1,974) were transgender women, 15% (361) were transgender men, and less than 1% (16) had another gender identity.
• Around half of transgender people (43% [844] of transgender women; 54% [193] of transgender men) who received an HIV diagnosis from 2009 to 2014 lived in the South.
• According to current estimates, around a quarter (22-28%) of transgender women are living with HIV, and more than half (an estimated 56%) of black/African American transgender women are living with HIV.
• Among the 3 million HIV testing events^c reported to CDC in 2015, the percentage of transgender people who received a new HIV diagnosis was more than 3 times the national average.
• Nearly two thirds of transgender women and men surveyed by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) in 2014 and 2015 from 28 jurisdictions reported never testing for HIV.