Transgender and gender diverse adults are under-enrolled in food assistance programmes and report negative experiences when accessing benefits: an analysis of the US Transgender Survey
Whitney Linsenmeyer, Timothy Chrusciel, Heather Schier, Rowan Hollinger, Athena Sherman · 2026
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Food aid use among transgender and gender diverse adults in the United States is the subject of a study by Whitney Linsenmeyer and co-authors, published in 2025. The team drew on the US Transgender Survey, the largest survey of this group in the country, to compare who qualifies for aid with who gets it.
About 40.9 percent of the group qualified for SNAP food aid, yet only 30.6 percent of those who qualified were getting it, and very few reported WIC aid. Many adults said they stayed away from aid offices out of fear. They worried about being mistreated, being outed as transgender, or being denied fair treatment. The study argues that aid programs leave many eligible adults unserved.
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| CREATOR | Whitney Linsenmeyer, Timothy Chrusciel, Heather Schier, Rowan Hollinger, Athena Sherman |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 51 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |