157. Disordered Eating in Transgender Youth: A Comparison to Population-Based and Clinical Samples

Research suggests that transgender individuals are at heightened risk for gender-related body dissatisfaction and eating disorders (EDs). Eating disorders and gender-related body dissatisfaction often emerge and/or intensify during adolescence, due to the biological impacts of puberty in combination with other developmental and environmental influences that are prominent in adolescence. Despite the developmental importance of adolescence, much of the research on eating disorder symptoms in transgender individuals has focused on adult samples or combined adolescents with young adults.