Gender Identity and Lifetime Prevalence of Skin Cancer in the United States

Gender identity refers to one's personal sense of gender and includes identifying as cisgender (ie, a gender identity that aligns with the sex assigned at birth), transgender (ie, a gender identity that does not align with the sex assigned at birth), and gender nonconforming (GNC) (ie, a gender identity that does not follow others' ideas about how a person should look or act based on the sex assigned at birth). There has been increasing national focus on examining cancer risks of transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) patients and, although prior research has examined skin cancer prevalence among sexual minority populations. Here, Singer et al discuss their study on skin cancer history by gender identity.