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Table 6 Comparison of percent median body mass index using birth-assigned sex and gender-affirmed/alternative growth charts in those with other specified feeding and eating disorder

From: Transgender and other gender diverse adolescents with eating disorders requiring medical stabilization

Age

Sex assigned at birth

Gender identity

Percent mBMI based on sex assigned at birth growth curves

Percent mBMI based on gender-affirmed/alternative growth curves

p-value

     

0.067

12 years 5 months

Female

Male

123.5

125.6

 

12 years 8 months

Female

Other

108.6

110.4

 

14 years 6 months

Female

Male

99.5

100

 

14 years 10 months

Male

Female

100

99.5

 

16 years 2 months

Male

Female

114

114.6

 

16 years 5 months

Male

Female

94.3

95.2

 
  

Average

106.7

107.6

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