Big changes, but are they big enough? Healthcare professionals’ attitudes toward transgender persons

Kanamori, Yasuko; Cornelius‐White, Jeffrey H. D.

doi:10.1080/15532739.2016.1232628

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“…The results also suggest there may be more transphobia in men than in women although the results are not statistically significant. These findings coincide with other studies showing that men have more transphobia than women (Landén and Innala, 2000;Nagoshi et al, 2008;Norton and Herek, 2013;Elischberger et al, 2016;Kanamori and Cornelius-White, 2016).…”

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confidence: 92%

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Improvement in Gender and Transgender Knowledge in University Students Through the Creative Factory Methodology

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In Spain, Social Educators, similar to both social workers and educators in the United States, help coordinate social change through educational interventions and mobilization of social groups to benefit marginalized people and overall societal welfare. They are trained to work with diverse populations, and it is important that they have awareness and training on gender and transgender issues given the extensive discrimination that transgender people endue. Research has begun to identify the important role that knowledge and attitudes of health and educational professionals may play in providing a supportive, healing context to combat the harmful effects of this discrimination and how educational trainings may foster improved knowledge and attitudes in helping professions. This study describes a program to improve knowledge and positive attitudes toward gender and especially transgender people in university students who study Social Education. The researchers measured knowledge and attitudes toward gender and transgender people issues of 64 students before and after receiving a 4-month interactive training. They used the Short Form of the Genderism and Transphobia Scale, a 12-item scale of transphobia and gender ideology variables. The researchers also asked participants about their knowledge of gender and transgender issues before and after training. The methodological experience "Creative Factory" was employed as an interactive training program. The main goal of this methodology is to enable students in a formative context to analyze social realities to generate discussion and innovate ideas to design successful practices. After 4 months of training with a weekly session on gender and transgender learning, students showed improvements in knowledge and attitudes toward both gender and transgender people. Specifically, students demonstrated more knowledge about gender and transgender issues and more positive attitudes toward transgender people. The study demonstrates that training in gender education using the Creative Factory methodology improved knowledge and attitudes in students.

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“…A study by Kanamori and Cornelius-White (2016) showed results consistent with the studies mentioned so far. In their study they found that health professionals in general maintain generally favorable attitudes toward transgender people.…”

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“…The findings of the current study indicate that for patients presenting with high levels of eating disorder symptoms (that are secondary to gender identity issues), timely initiation of CHT may likely reduce these symptoms, as well as their gender incongruence. Given the existence of significant barriers to accessing transgender health care (Bouman & Richards, ; Jones et al ., ; Kanamori & Cornelius‐White, ; Scheim, Zong, Giblon, & Bauer, ), it is imperative that access to these services is increased to minimise the risk of eating disorder psychopathology. In addition, although gender affirming medical interventions alleviate body dissatisfaction (a core feature of eating disorder psychopathology) for many, patients who report very high body dissatisfaction prior to gender affirming medical interventions have been found to continue to do so after gender affirming medical interventions (van de Grift et al ., ).…”

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Risk Factors for Eating Disorder Psychopathology within the Treatment Seeking Transgender Population: The Role of Cross‐Sex Hormone Treatment

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Haycraft

Bouman

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Euro Eating Disorders Rev

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Many transgender people experience high levels of body dissatisfaction, which is one of the numerous factors known to increase vulnerability to eating disorder symptoms in the cisgender (non-trans) population. Cross-sex hormones can alleviate body dissatisfaction so might also alleviate eating disorder symptoms. This study aimed to explore risk factors for eating disorder symptoms in transgender people and the role of cross-sex hormones. Individuals assessed at a national transgender health service were invited to participate (N = 563). Transgender people not on cross-sex hormones reported higher levels of eating disorder psychopathology than people who were. High body dissatisfaction, perfectionism, anxiety symptoms, and low self-esteem were risk factors for eating psychopathology, but, after controlling for these, significant differences in eating psychopathology between people who were and were not on cross-sex hormones disappeared. Cross-sex hormones may alleviate eating disorder psychopathology. Given the high prevalence of transgender identities, clinicians at eating disorder services should assess for gender identity issues. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.

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“…A more recent study showed that health professionals maintain generally favorable attitudes toward transgender people. In addition, gender differences in attitudes were found, with women showing more accepting attitudes toward transgender people than men [12].…”

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Measuring Discrimination Against Transgender People at the University of the Basque Country and in a Non-University Sample in Spain

Ozamiz-Etxebarria

Gorrotxategi

Jiménez-Etxebarria

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IJERPH

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Transgender people suffer from others’ negative attitudes in many situations. The university context is one environment where further progress has to be made to ensure the inclusion of transgender people. In this study, a sample of 376 undergraduate students was collected and their attitudes towards transgender people were analyzed. A comparison was made between number of years in university, and a sample from the general public. In addition, comparisons were made by gender, since the literature shows more negative attitudes toward transgender people in men than in women. The results show relatively positive attitudes toward transgender people among higher education students, but they have little knowledge of transgender identity. In turn, researchers found significant differences between different years in the university and between genders. These results support the need to expand knowledge about transgender people in the university environment.

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Big changes, but are they big enough? Healthcare professionals’ attitudes toward transgender persons

Cited by 45 publications

References 30 publications

Improvement in Gender and Transgender Knowledge in University Students Through the Creative Factory Methodology

Improvement in Gender and Transgender Knowledge in University Students Through the Creative Factory Methodology

Risk Factors for Eating Disorder Psychopathology within the Treatment Seeking Transgender Population: The Role of Cross‐Sex Hormone Treatment

Measuring Discrimination Against Transgender People at the University of the Basque Country and in a Non-University Sample in Spain

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