It’s well-established that members of the LGBTQIA+ community tend to face more health challenges than their cisgender, heterosexual peers.
A new study underscores how tragic the consequences can be, indicating lesbian and bisexual women die much earlier compared to heterosexuals. The study authors suggest that social stigma and prejudice are two leading reasons this happens.
Do lesbian and bisexual women die earlier than heterosexual women?
Women who identified as lesbian died 20 percent sooner than heterosexuals, while bisexual women died 37 percent sooner, indicated the 2024 study in JAMA Network.
The analysis included decades’ worth of data from the Nurses’ Health Study II, which investigated risk factors for chronic diseases in women and included data from more than 100,000 nurses in the United States. […]
Click here to read the full piece. This story was originally published by Giddy on May 31, 2024.
