Social Support in Older Transgender and Gender Diverse Communities in the United Kingdom and Australia: A Comparative Study During COVID-19

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Mental health, coping, and resilience among transgender and gender diverse people during the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

“…Age explained 10.24% of the variance in the slope representing changes in anxiety after the election, 7.27% of the variance in the slope representing changes in coping after the election, and 12.5% of the variance in the slope representing changes in resilience after the election. We interpret this as indicating, as other studies suggest, that older TGD adults may be resilient in the face of stressors over the life course, in part because of their intentional systems of social support (e.g., chosen families; Bates-Livesay, 2020; Toze et al, 2023). In contrast, families of origin are more likely to provide core systems of support for younger TGD people (Weinhardt et al, 2019).…”