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For all 3 scales, higher scores indicate more severe symptoms.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n Among all 8733 SGM participants in the sample (median age, 32.5 years [IQR, 26.0-45.0 years]; 2024 cisgender men [23.2%], 2355 cisgender women [27.0%], 2198 gender-diverse adults assigned female at birth [25.2%], 321 gender-diverse adults assigned male at birth [3.7%], 1294 transgender men [14.8%], and 541 transgender women [6.2%]), anti-GM policy enactment was associated with significant increases in anxiety (GAD-7 score, 0.8 points [95% CI, 0.2-1.4 points]) and PTSD (PCL-6 score, 0.8 points [95% CI, 0.1-1.4 points]) symptoms in states that enacted anti-GM policies compared with states that did not but was not associated with significant increases in depression symptoms (PHQ-9 score, 0.6 points [95% CI, \u22120.1 to 1.4 points]). In the GM subsample (n\u2009=\u20094354), nonsignificant changes in anxiety (GAD-7 score, 0.6 points [95% CI, \u22120.2 to 1.4 points]), depression (PHQ-9 score, 0.1 points [95% CI, \u22120.9 to 1.1 points]), and PTSD (PCL-6 score, 0.7 points [95% CI, \u22120.2 to 1.6 points]) symptoms were observed after policy enactment in states that enacted anti-GM policies compared with states that did not. Gender minority adults had high mental health symptoms across the study period.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>\n In this study of 8733 SGM adults using difference-in-differences analysis, anti-GM policies were associated with worse mental health symptoms among SGM adults but no changes in mental health symptoms among GM adults. 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