Trans women face more than just health risks.
- Women who have sex with women may be at a higher risk of depression and anxiety than are other women.
- Consider pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Lesbians and other women who have sex with women are more likely to have alcohol use disorder and use illegal drugs than are other people.
- research has shown that lesbians and other women who have sex with women experience intimate partner violence at a higher rate than do other people
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For most of my teenage years I lived with anxiety, depression and brief periods of psychosis. I was in and out of therapy between 16 and 18, and I’ve been in counselling ever since.
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the good news... many escape that dangerous and depressing lifestyle
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I think it’s important that people recognize that the point at which you come out is not the time when you begin your lesbian life. Like for most of us, starting as a very young child is when the confusion begins. And so I had years, and years, and years of grappling with whether I was a lesbian before actually coming out. But I had a mental breakdown while I was married to my first husband.
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that’s what caused me to question my sexuality. I thought, “Has my mind, my life, my dedication to this theological view driven me away from God?” And when I began to unpack that, I found perhaps that it had and I began repenting.