Since April 2020, researchers at the Harvard GenderSci Lab have been tracking COVID-19 cases and fatalities by sex/gender across 53 US states and territories, providing weekly updated numbers on the “US Gender/Sex COVID-19 Data Tracker.” This blog post documents the current state of COVID-19 sex/gender data, explains the need for more inclusive reporting, and shows how existing data suggest that trans and gender-expansive people are at increased risk of adverse COVID-19 health outcomes during the pandemic due to inequality, stigma, and structural violence. Although there are crucial gaps in existing data, there is sufficient evidence to suggest that the conditions of the pandemic amplify existing inequalities experienced by trans and gender-expansive people…
Perret, M., Jillson, K., Danielsen, A. C., Trinh, M.-H., Zubizarreta, D., & DuBois, L. Z. (2021). COVID-19 Data On Trans And Gender-Expansive People, Stat! Health Affairs.