Transgender Experience and Identity

Diamond, Lisa M.; Pardo, Seth T.; Butterworth, Molly R.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-7988-9_26

Cited by 137 publications

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“…Study samples vary in representation of these characteristics. Transgender women are more often the focus than transgender men; few studies have focused on genderqueer / nonbinary identities (54). In public health research, inner-city transgender women of color are overrepresented because they carry a higher burden in HIV and its social determinants.…”

Section: Intersectionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Adult development and quality of life of transgender and gender nonconforming people

Bockting

Coleman

Deutsch

et al. 2016

Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes &Amp; Obesity

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Purpose of review Research on the health of transgender and gender nonconforming people has been limited with most of the work focusing on transition-related care and HIV. This review summarizes research to date on the overall development and quality of life of transgender and gender nonconforming adults, and makes recommendations for future research. Recent findings Pervasive stigma and discrimination attached to gender nonconformity affect the health of transgender people across the lifespan, particularly when it comes to mental health and wellbeing. Despite the related challenges, transgender and gender nonconforming people may develop resilience over time. Social support and affirmation of gender identity play herein a critical role. While there is a growing awareness of diversity in gender identity and expression among this population, a comprehensive understanding of biopsychosocial development beyond the gender binary and beyond transition is lacking. Summary Greater visibility of transgender people in society has revealed the need to understand and promote their health and quality of life broadly, including but not limited to gender dysphoria and HIV. This means addressing their needs in context of their families and communities, sexual and reproductive health, and successful aging. Research is needed to better understand what factors are associated with resilience and how it can be effectively promoted.

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Section: Intersectionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Adult development and quality of life of transgender and gender nonconforming people

Bockting

Coleman

Deutsch

et al. 2016

Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes &Amp; Obesity

148

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“…Because children become cognizant of their own gender so early, it should not be surprising that children with gender dysphoria often begin to express their cross-gender identity between the ages of 3 and 4 years. Some even begin to make statements about their gender not matching their biological sex as early as age 2 (Diamond, Pardo, & Butterworth, 2011), the same age range when children generally begin to self label as boys or girls (Zosuls et al, 2009). Early cross-gender identity formation can also be observed indirectly through gender-linked behaviors such as the choice of playmates and preferred play styles.…”

Section: Children's Perception Of Gender and Development Of Gender Idmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…An individual must have strong, consistent feelings about their cross-gender identity in order to maintain that identity in the face of the myriad social and familial cues that are constantly acting to undermine it. Additionally, in a world that categorizes everything from socks to bathrooms by gender, identity formation and maintenance may be particularly difficult for those individuals whose self conception falls outside the gender binary (Diamond et al, 2011).…”

Section: Only In Extremely Rare Cases Do These Children Develop Mascumentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Transgender Identity Development in Childhood and Adolescence

Boskey¹

2014

American Journal of Sexuality Education

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Many sexuality educators and professionals, even those involved in program development and planning, are not aware of the biological and social factors involved in gender identity development in youth. As such, this topic is often not as well addressed in whole life educational curricula as better understood topics, such as reproductive anatomy, puberty, and contraception. This review article is intended to provide an overview of gender identity development in childhood and adolescence, in order to encourage better integration of comprehensive understandings of gender identity into new sexuality education curricula through the inclusion of specific information about transgender and other gender nonconforming identities.

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“…This identity development occurs across various domains, due to the fact that there are so many types of social groups with which people can identify (social identity theory; Tajfel & Turner, 1986). These groups include religious (Smith, 2007), gender (Hill & Lynch, 1983;Powlishta, 2004), ethnic (Aboud & Doyle, 1993;Phinney, 1992), and sexual orientation (Diamond & Butterworth, 2008;Diamond, Pardo, & Butterworth, 2011;Dillon, Worthington, & Moradi, 2011), as well as a number of others. In this paper, we will focus on ethnic group, gender group, and religious group identities.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring Gender Identity and Religious Identity with Adapted Versions of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure—Revised

Ashdown¹,

Homa²,

Brown³

2014

JEDP

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Adolescent identity develops across various domains (e.g., ethnicity, gender, religion). Although these domains share elements of identity (e.g., belongingness, self-categorization) there is a lack of continuity in the elements selected when measuring various domains of adolescent identity. This study tested whether an adapted version of Phinney and Ong's (2007) Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure-Revised (developed to measure adolescents' ethnic identity) could also measure gender and religious identities. Participants (N = 247, 56% female, M age = 13.33 years) completed adapted versions of the MEIM-R measuring gender identity (which we call the Multi-Identity Measure for Gender) and religious identity (Multi-Identity Measure for Religion). Confirmatory factor analysis models for the MIM-Gender and MIM-Religion scales demonstrated modest to good fits. In addition, the MIM-Gender and MIM-Religion scales demonstrated preliminary validity. These preliminary results suggest the adapted MEIM-R scales have the potential to measure domains of adolescent identity beyond ethnicity.

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Transgender Experience and Identity

Cited by 137 publications

References 58 publications

Adult development and quality of life of transgender and gender nonconforming people

Adult development and quality of life of transgender and gender nonconforming people

Understanding Transgender Identity Development in Childhood and Adolescence

Measuring Gender Identity and Religious Identity with Adapted Versions of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure—Revised

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