Not your unicorn: trans dating app users’ negotiations of personal safety and sexual health

Abstract

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Patterns of online relationship seeking among transgender and gender diverse adolescents: Advice for others and common inquiries.

“…Furthermore, excerpts illustrated a conflict between adolescents' desire to be genuine online and concerns about the acceptability of their gender identity, echoing findings among TGD adults (Albury et al, 2020;Fernandez & Birnholtz, 2019). Compared with previous findings that TGD adults shared their identity as a pragmatic strategy to filter out incompatible partners (Albury et al, 2020), TGD teens' desire to disclose their identity online may also reflect a sense of pride in their TGD identity, as reflected in the "honesty and genuineness" code. The tension between TGD teens' desire for and fears of identity disclosure online may feel more acute given their developmental stage.…”

“…These concerns may reflect the victimization experienced by TGD individuals (Gordon & Meyer, 2007;Johns et al, 2019) and transphobia within the SGM community (Araya et al, 2021). Furthermore, excerpts illustrated a conflict between adolescents' desire to be genuine online and concerns about the acceptability of their gender identity, echoing findings among TGD adults (Albury et al, 2020;Fernandez & Birnholtz, 2019). Compared with previous findings that TGD adults shared their identity as a pragmatic strategy to filter out incompatible partners (Albury et al, 2020), TGD teens' desire to disclose their identity online may also reflect a sense of pride in their TGD identity, as reflected in the "honesty and genuineness" code.…”

“…Nonetheless, self-disclosure may be a double-edged sword because the reception to such disclosure could be positive or negative (Haimson et al, 2015). For example, Australian TGD adults reported experiencing a conflict between wanting to disclose their gender identity online to filter out transphobic partners and to affirm their TGD identity, and concern about excessive sharing of personal information and being fetishized (Albury et al, 2020). Consequently, TGD teens may be more sensitive to the distinction of TGD-affirming spaces from unwelcoming spaces than cisgender SM youth (Hanckel et al, 2019).…”

An Examination of Location-Based Real-Time Dating Application Infrastructure, Profile Features, and Cybervictimization

“…Finally, this study had too few gender-nonconforming and transgender respondents to include them in analyses. Prior research has found that these individuals are at an increased risk of sexual victimization and that this risk extends to the use of LBRTDAs (e.g., Albury et al, 2020). Future scholarship, including qualitative work, should more thoroughly explore the experiences of sexual minorities with respect to LBRTDA use and specific forms of cybervictimization.…”

“…Future scholarship, including qualitative work, should more thoroughly explore the experiences of sexual minorities with respect to LBRTDA use and specific forms of cybervictimization. Indeed, victimization experiences may have larger implications for these individuals when compared with their cisgender, heterosexual counterparts (Albury et al, 2020; Steinfeld, 2020). Approaching future LBRTDA victimization research through an intersectional lens allows for the critical and necessary examination of the nuances and linkages across different groups of users and their individual experiences.…”