{"id":51,"date":"2023-04-04T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/?p=51"},"modified":"2023-04-04T03:15:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T07:15:34","slug":"heightened-risk-of-eating-disorders-for-transgender-gender-diverse-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/2023\/04\/04\/heightened-risk-of-eating-disorders-for-transgender-gender-diverse-college-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Heightened Risk of Eating Disorders for Transgender, Gender-Diverse College Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>A new study coauthored by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher has found that certain transgender and gender-diverse college students\u2014including genderqueer or gender-nonconforming individuals, and transgender men\u2014are at a heightened risk of developing an eating disorder. According to Sarah K. Lipson, the principal investigator of the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/healthymindsnetwork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Healthy Minds Network<\/a>, \u201ceating disorder\u00a0risk can be exacerbated by situations that take the control and autonomy from individuals, as is the case with restrictive healthcare policies and practices that prioritize binary sex assigned at birth, rejecting gender identity and expression.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2022\/heightened-risk-of-eating-disorders-for-transgender-gender-diverse-college-students\/\">Learn more.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study coauthored by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher has found that certain transgender and gender-diverse college students\u2014including genderqueer or gender-nonconforming individuals, and transgender men\u2014are at a heightened risk of developing an eating disorder. According to Sarah K. Lipson, the principal investigator of the\u00a0Healthy Minds Network, \u201ceating disorder\u00a0risk can be exacerbated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}