Tucking Practices and Attributed Health Effects in Transfeminine Individuals.
Transgend Health 2024 Feb; 9(1):92-97.

Abstract

Tucking is the gender-affirming practice of putting the penis and scrotum between the buttocks and moving the testes up into the inguinal canals. Our study explores tucking and health effects among transfeminine adults (n=79). Most (74.7%) had practiced tucking and among them, 67.2% had tucked ≥7 years. When tucking, the majority (84.5%) tucked daily and almost half (44.8%) ≥17 h/day. Half (50.0%) reported concern about the health effects of tucking. Itching, rash, and testicular pain were the most commonly reported health effects. Health care providers should use a harm reduction approach in addressing tucking-related concerns and supporting patients who tuck.

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Malik MDepartment of Health Behavior, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Cooney EEDepartment of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Brevelle JMCenter for HIV/STI Integration and Capacity, Maryland Department of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Poteat TDepartment of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

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Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

38312458