Being safe, being me : Être en sécurité, être soi-même : résultats de l'enquête sur la santé des jeunes trans

We need families in the solutions for better outreach and support for change: The 923 trans youth who families, to help them understand shared their health experiences and support their trans youth, and are the experts at identifying the to help trans youth feel safe at challenges they face. [...] We the word about the survey through our created two versions of the survey, one YACs, through social media sites such Members of the Trans Youth Health Survey Research Team Canadian Trans Youth Health Survey National Report 7 as Facebook and Twitter, as well as ally because someone had started and through the networks of LGBTQ youth stopped, then restarted later. [...] Older trans youth term “transgender” did not accurate- were more likely to have been assigned ly represent them and their identity, male at birth (29% compared to 18% of which may help to explain the number younger participants), and trans youth of participants who answered that they in Québec were also more likely to were not transgender. [...] For example, both older and younger youth who reported a Most younger trans youth reported greater number of servings of fruit and eating fruit or vegetables at least once vegetables per day reported feeling the day before, but one third said that happy more often in the past month. [...] The majority never went to bed hungry because of financial rea- sons, but a small number did so “often.” Canadian Trans Youth Health Survey National Report 29 A significant percent of older trans BodY WEIGht ANd BodY youth reported not having access to IMAGE food because of money in the past year: 38% reported ever going hungry, We asked younger and older trans 26% reported losing weight, and 22%