Table 1.
Demographic Characteristics and Comparisons of HIV TRB and Transactional Sex Events (N = 212)
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| Race and Ethnicity | ||||||||
| Black/African American | 67 | 31.6 | 4.811 | 3.69, 6.25 | 70.81*** | 5.601 | 4.32, 7.26 | 46.36*** |
| Latina | 71 | 33.5 | 5.931 | 4.61, 7.62 | 4.561 | 3.52, 5.90 | ||
| White | 52 | 24.5 | 0.922 | 0.62, 1.37 | 1.402 | 0.98, 2.00 | ||
| Multiracial or Other | 22 | 10.4 | 2.003 | 1.20, 3.34 | 2.362 | 1.44, 3.89 | ||
| Gender Identity | ||||||||
| Female/Woman/Girl | 125 | 59.0 | 3.65 | 2.99, 4.45 | 2.70 | 3.46 | 2.83, 4.22 | 3.56 |
| Transa | 80 | 37.7 | 4.74 | 3.72, 6.03 | 4.63 | 3.63, 5.89 | ||
| Other | 7 | 3.3 | 0 | 0, 0 | 3.14 | 1.34, 7.36 | ||
| Relationship Status | ||||||||
| Single | 108 | 50.9 | 2.97 | 2.39, 3.70 | 9.91** | 5.21 | 4.24, 6.40 | 19.00*** |
| Partnered | 104 | 49.1 | 4.94 | 4.00, 6.10 | 2.51 | 2.00, 3.15 | ||
| Sexual Orientation Identity | ||||||||
| LGBQ | 111 | 52.4 | 2.88 | 2.32, 3.58 | 12.02** | 2.61 | 2.10, 3.25 | 17.27*** |
| Heterosexual/Straight | 101 | 47.6 | 5.10 | 4.12, 6.31 | 5.29 | 4.27, 6.54 | ||
| Income | ||||||||
| Below $20,000 | 170 | 80.2 | 4.37 | 3.70, 5.16 | 15.61*** | 4.11 | 3.47, 4.86 | 2.99 |
| $20,000 or more | 42 | 19.8 | 2.19 | 1.52, 3.16 | 3.00 | 2.12, 4.25 | ||
| Receiving Income Assistanceb | ||||||||
| Yes | 92 | 43.4 | 5.02 | 4.01, 6.28 | 8.41** | 3.11 | 2.53, 3.82 | 7.65** |
| No | 120 | 56.6 | 3.11 | 2.53, 3.82 | 4.90 | 3.92, 6.13 | ||
| Education | ||||||||
| High School or less | 88 | 41.5 | 4.801 | 3.81, 6.03 | 11.81** | 3.811 | 3.012, 4.81 | 14.31** |
| Some college | 62 | 29.2 | 2.692 | 2.01, 3.61 | 5.342 | 4.07, 7.00 | ||
| Bachelor degree | 49 | 23.1 | 3.311,2 | 2.40, 4.55 | 2.691,3 | 1.94, 3.74 | ||
| Graduate degree | 13 | 6.1 | 6.461,2 | 3.60, 11.59 | 2.003 | 1.03, 3.89 | ||
| HIV Status | ||||||||
| Negative | 138 | 65.1 | 3.54 | 2.93, 4.27 | 2.79 | 3.99 | 3.31, 4.81 | 0.24 |
| Positive | 74 | 34.9 | 4.69 | 3.65, 6.03 | 3.69 | 2.85, 4.77 | ||
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| Age (Range 18–65) | 34.3 | 11.6 | .02 | −.06 | ||||
| Age of First Living as a Woman (Range 1–64)e | 22.4 | 10.1 | −.11 | −.25** | ||||
Note. TRB = Transmission risk behavior; LGBQ = Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Queer; Superscript numbers indicate significant differences between groups in estimated marginal means at p < 0.05 when the variable has more than two categories.
All participants whose gender identity label included the word trans in any form.
Supplemental Security Income or Public Assistance.
Number of condomless penetrative sex events with a casual or main partner of discordant or unknown HIV status in the past 60 days.
Number of oral/anal/vaginal sex events that involved exchange for goods, accommodation, and/or money in the past 60 days.
Data is available for only 206 transgender women included in this sample. Means and Wald χ2 results were generated from negative binomial regressions without covariates on the two count variables.