Table 4.
Chi-square results comparing the rates of self-reported lifetime eating disorder diagnoses and past year eating pathology-specific academic impairment rates by sexual orientation within gender identity
| Eating Outcomes (% Yes) | Cisgender Men | Cisgender Women | Transgender or Genderqueer Students | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hetero N = 4071 | Gay N = 183 | Bisexual N = 157 | Unsure N = 80 | Other N = 35 | Hetero N = 7362 | Lesbia N = 140 | Bisexual N = 581 | Unsure N = 211 | Other N = 148 | Hetero N = 30 | Gay or Lesbian N = 29 | Bisexual N = 53 | Unsure N = 13 | Other N = 108 | |
| Lifetime AN | 0.6a | 2.8b | 3.2b | 1.3a,b | 2.9a,b | 3.7a | 7.9b,c | 8.8c | 4.5a,b | 8.6b,c | 0.0 | 6.7 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 8.0 |
| Lifetime BN | 0.5a | 1.7b | 1.3a,b | 1.3a,b | 0.0a | 2.2a | 6.6b | 5.9b | 3.2a,b | 3.7a,b | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.8 | 0.0 | 1.8 |
| Past year EAI | 0.6a | 0.5a,b | 2.5b | 3.8b | 0.0a,b | 1.5a | 3.3a,b | 4.7b | 5.8b | 2.4a,b | 0.0 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 0.0 | 4.4 |
Note. All columns represent the percent of participants who report the associated eating outcome; Superscripts represent groups between which there are no significant differences in rates (p. ≥05); boldface values reflect the group(s) with the highest rate of each specific outcome within each gender identity; Hetero = Heterosexual or Straight; AN= anorexia nervosa; BN=bulimia nervosa; EAI=eating pathology-specific academic impairment