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Trans kids are vulnerable to eating disorders. This therapist knows what they’re going through.

The Emily Program says transgender college students are up to four times as likely as cisgender peers to receive an eating-disorder diagnosis.

Summary by The 19th
Penny Gautreaux has spent her career helping people in crisis. But facing her own took a village. A licensed social worker and therapist, Gautreaux struggled with an eating disorder for 24 years. As a transgender woman, dysphoria tied to her gender made it worse. She was hospitalized twice for being undernourished. She was, as she […]

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The 19th broke the news in Austin, United States on Thursday, September 17, 2026.
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