Table 1.
Demographics by exposure variable: transgender sex workers, cisgender male sex workers and cisgender male non-sex workers, Guatemala City.
| Transgender sex workersa n (%) (n = 122) |
Male sex workersa,b n (%) (n = 284) |
Male non-sex workersb n (%) (n = 651) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | ||||
| 18–24 | 59 (48.4) | 139 (48.9) | 267 (41.0) | 0.17 |
| 25–34 | 43 (35.2) | 101 (35.6) | 257 (39.5) | |
| 35+ | 20 (16.4) | 44 (15.5) | 127 (19.5) | |
| Education | ||||
| primary or less | 31 (25.4) | 78 (27.5) | 42 (6.5) | <0.001 |
| some or completed secondary | 81 (66.4) | 183 (64.4) | 320 (49.2) | |
| some or completed university | 10 (8.2) | 23 (8.1) | 288 (44.3) | |
| Monthly income | ||||
| <$300 | 50 (43.1) | 193 (69.9) | 239 (37.3) | <0.001 |
| $300–500 | 49 (42.2) | 67 (24.3) | 227 (35.5) | |
| $501–800 | 11 (9.5) | 11 (4.0) | 87 (13.6) | |
| >$800 | 6 (5.2) | 5 (1.8) | 87 (13.6) | |
| Sexual orientation/gender identity | ||||
| Heterosexual | 0 (0.0) | 36 (12.9) | 25 (3.9) | <0.001 |
| Bisexual | 0 (0.0) | 124 (44.3) | 199 (30.7) | |
| Gay | 0 (0.0) | 120 (42.9) | 425 (65.5) | |
| Transgender | 122 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
a
Sex workers defined as people who received money for sex in the past 12 months.
b
All cisgender males included in the study reported sex with a transgender woman or a man in the past 12 months.