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Table 3 Association between transgender identity and healthcare services accessing at non-traditional healthcare services

From: Healthcare discrimination and factors associated with gender-affirming healthcare avoidance by transgender women and transgender men in Thailand: findings from a cross-sectional online-survey study

Healthcare Services

Accessing Non-Traditional Healthcare Services

n/N (%)

cOR (95% CI)

P

General healthcare services (n = 151)

  

0.005

 Transgender men (ref.)

5/41 (12.2)

1

 

 Transgender women

41/110 (37.3)

4.28 (1.55 – 11.81)

 

Buying hormone treatment (n = 84)

  

0.026

 Transgender men (ref.)

4/27 (14.8)

1

 

 Transgender women

23/57 (40.4)

3.89 (1.18 – 12.83)

 

Gender-reassignment surgery and other transgender-related surgical procedures (n = 55)

  

0.176

 Transgender men (ref.)

2/14 (14.3)

1

 

 Transgender women

14/41 (34.2)

3.11 (0.60 – 16.12)

 

Healthcare counseling (n = 104)

  

0.013

 Transgender men (ref.)

3/29 (10.3)

1

 

 Transgender women

28/75 (37.3)

5.16 (1.42 – 18.75)

 

HIV testing (n = 101)

  

0.116

 Transgender men (ref.)

4/25 (16.0)

1

 

 Transgender women

25/76 (32.9)

2.57 (0.79 – 8.35)

 
  1. cOR Crude odds ratio, 95% CI 95% confidence interval, ref. Reference group, P P-value derived by using a binary logistic regression (Wald test)