Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging

Pieri, Mara

doi:10.1111/1467-9566.13462

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“…Researchers note how LGBTQ+ older adults practice selfadvocacy and empowerment in peer-support spaces (Lampe, 2022a;. Prior work also examines how LGBTQ+ older patient communities use resourceful strategies to protect their mental health (Marshall & Cahill, 2021), such as engaging with faith communities and receiving LGBTQ+-led peer support services (Lampe, 2022b;Nowakowski et al, 2020).…”

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“…Consequently, researchers lack knowledge of racial and ethnic minority, disabled, immigrant, and financially-disadvantaged LGBTQ+ older communities (Kum, 2017). Further, health disparities research on bisexual and transgender older adults is also scant (Lampe, 2022b;Nowakowski et al, 2020). Researchers and clinicians should strengthen their community engagement efforts with LGBTQ+ older populations while tailoring their research studies, skills training, and support interventions to the needs of LGBTQ+ older adults from underrepresented communities.…”

Section: Approach 4: Emphasize Intersectionality and Community Engage...mentioning

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Health Disparities Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Older Adults: A Structural Competency Approach

Lampe

Barbee

Tran

et al. 2023

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) older adults experience significant health disparities. Examining these disparities has become an international research priority, but gaps remain. In this review article, we summarize major contributions of and ongoing gaps in health disparities research among LGBTQ+ older adults, while focusing on four major content areas: (a) social determinants of health disparities, (b) mental, cognitive, and physical health disparities, (c) reproductive and sexual health disparities, and (d) seeking LGBTQ+-affirming and age-friendly care. Using a structural competency approach, we develop a four-part agenda for this research area that enhances our understanding of how macro-level systems, institutions, and structures drive health disparities among aging LGBTQ+ communities. We also outline future research on structural competency in LGBTQ+ older adult health, while providing recommendations for researchers and clinicians. These recommendations illuminate potential best practices for bettering the health and quality of life of LGBTQ+ older populations.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Approach 4: Emphasize Intersectionality and Community Engage...mentioning

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Health Disparities Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Older Adults: A Structural Competency Approach

Lampe

Barbee

Tran

et al. 2023

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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“…These knowledge deficiencies can lead to medical providers and staff, regardless of their intentions, placing TGNB patients in vulnerable and uncomfortable positions, such as misgendering patients, disclosing patients' TGNB identities to family members without their consent, and referring to their anatomical features in gendered ways (Lampe and Nowakowski, 2021;Santos, Mann, and Pfeffer, 2021). This is especially the case for TGNB people navigating reproductive and sexual healthcare settings that are normatively women-centric or stereotypically feminized (Nowakowski, Sumerau, and Lampe, 2020;Riggs et al, 2020).…”

Section: Transgender and Non-binary People's Healthcare Experiencesmentioning

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Accounting for Cisnormativity: Understanding Transgender and Non-Binary Young People’s Strategies to Resist and Reduce Inequality in Healthcare

Lampe

2023

Social Currents

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Using in-depth interviews with transgender and non-binary (TGNB) young adults in the Southeastern US, I examine TGNB young people’s healthcare experiences and strategies for resisting and reducing inequality in healthcare settings. My analysis draws on sociological conceptualizations of accountability structures in TGNB healthcare and specifically the conceptualization of cisnormative accountability. In this article, I demonstrate how TGNB patients are held accountable to the institutional and interpersonal maintenance of (a) cisnormativity and (b) the medical model of transgender identity in US healthcare systems. Such instances of cisnormative accountability, regardless of cisgender people’s intentions, contribute to the reproduction of gender inequality among TGNB communities. Further, I explain how TGNB young patients engage in strategies to resist and reduce inequality in healthcare through (a) avoidance of health services and (b) selective disclosure of TGNB identities. I draw out implications for understanding TGNB young people’s strategies to minimize inequality in healthcare, and the consequences cisnormative accountability has for the reproduction of gender inequality.

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“…These injustices call attention to the social construction of ageing, particularly lesbians’ and gay men’s unique relational needs and challenges as they age (Nowakowski et al., 2020). Although there are likely to be parallels between heterosexual and non‐heterosexual people’s experiences of ageing, such as a decline in health and reduced access to economic resources and social support (Roth, 2020), Western research has shown that older lesbians and gay men are less likely to have an available informal caregiver than their heterosexual counterparts (Croghan et al., 2014).…”

Section: Ageing Experiences Of Lesbians and Gay Men: Unique Relationa...mentioning

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Intimate networks of care: Perceptions of intergenerational family care and experiences of ageing among Chinese midlife and older lesbians and gay men

Lo,

Liu,

Lai

et al. 2023

Sociology Health & Illness

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This article examines how lesbians and gay men imagine and build their ‘intimate networks of care’ and negotiate moral expectations towards intergenerational family care as they age. To date, little is known about the strength and complexities of different intimate ties or the role of intergenerational dynamics in shaping ageing sexual minority people’s care needs and choices. Based on narrative interviews with ageing Chinese lesbians and gay men, the findings reveal their experiences of constantly juggling their ties with families of origin, moral values around intergenerational care and the urge to receive support from and offer support to chosen networks of people. Participants exercised agency in expanding their networks of care by building friendship and (online and offline) community networks for mutual care and support in later life. Nevertheless, as evidenced by the centrality of ageing with(out) children, and the moral obligation of caring for parents in participants’ narratives, participants experienced tensions between enacting what was considered morally right/wrong and developing networks of care that were perceived as emotionally intimate. Linking relational sociology with the sociology of morality, we discuss the conceptual utility of ‘intimate networks of care’ for sociological theorising of the linkages between sexuality, care and relational lives.

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Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging

Cited by 3 publications

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Health Disparities Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Older Adults: A Structural Competency Approach

Health Disparities Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Older Adults: A Structural Competency Approach

Accounting for Cisnormativity: Understanding Transgender and Non-Binary Young People’s Strategies to Resist and Reduce Inequality in Healthcare

Intimate networks of care: Perceptions of intergenerational family care and experiences of ageing among Chinese midlife and older lesbians and gay men

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