
It is estimated that 0.3% to 0.9% of the world’s population (age 15 and older) identifies as transgender, for a total of about 25 million people. If the prevalence of epilepsy in this population is the same as the prevalence in the general population, we can assume that between 150,000 and 450,000 transgender people also have epilepsy.
A recent literature review1 highlights unique challenges faced by this group of people and is summarized here.
1. Johnson, E. L. and Kaplan, P. W. (2017), Caring for transgender patients with epilepsy. Epilepsia. doi:10.1111/epi.13864