{"doi":"10.1093/infdis/jiae011","title":"Expanding the Evidence Base for Improving Sexual Health Among Transgender Communities: The Importance of Rigorous Epidemiologic Studies","abstract":"The findings and conclusions in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Though approximately 1.3 million adults identify as transgender in United States (US) [1], transgender populations remain marginalized and understudied in public health. Epidemiological studies of health outcomes of transgender populations are infrequent, but available data show alarming disparities with respect to sexual health between transgender and cisgender populations [2-4]. Additionally, the few studies examining health, and specifically sexual health, of transgender populations are often published in specialty journals. This highlights the important work published by Brown et al. about sexual health of transgender women in this issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases. Brown et al. greatly advance the field of transgender sexual health research by presenting baseline findings for a multisite prospective cohort study called The Leading Innovation for Transgender Women's Health and Empowerment (LITE). Specifically, Brown et al. investigate the prevalence and factors associated with bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among a communitybased sample of adult transgender women, stratified by HIV status, in six cities across the eastern and southern US.","journal":"The Journal of Infectious Diseases","year":2024,"id":493405,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9544,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":525836,"name":"Emily R. Learner","orcid":"0000-0003-3778-8631","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":341010,"name":"Kyle T. Bernstein","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":377125,"name":"Julie Rushmore","orcid":"0000-0002-2682-6893","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":20,"raw_metadata":{"citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:09:03.883685Z","pmid":"38234300","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}