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Tuned In! An affirmative mindfulness intervention for sexual and gender diverse young people Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Gio Iacono
Sexual and gender diverse youth and young adults (SGDY) experience significant mental health disparities compared to non-SGDY, which is exacerbated by ongoing anti-LGBTQIA + political attacks acros...
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Communication and support as suicide prevention for LGBTQIA2S + youth: perspectives of professionals, parents, and youth Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Brett R. Harris, Katie Gallant, Hildie Cohen, Alex Karydi, Tracy L. McPherson
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, and two-spirit (LGBTQIA2S+) youth experience higher rates of suicide than their heterosexual and cisgender peers. Our stu...
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Mental health and body image among SGM youth engaged with a digital eating disorder intervention Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Erin Kasson, Hannah S. Szlyk, Xiao Li, Georgi Sirko, Isabel Rehg, Melissa M. Vázquez, Denise E. Wilfley, C. Barr Taylor, Ellen E. Fitzsimmons-Craft
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) teens may experience body image concerns and eating disorders (EDs) at higher rates than their non-SGM peers. The current investigation examined differences in base...
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Understanding school staff responses to LGBTQ+ discrimination in UK secondary schools Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Ben Hayes, Elizabeth Buckingham
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and questioning (LGBTQ+) pupils report that school staff do not intervene when they are witnessing discrimination and more than half of pupils did not feel they...
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Queer joy-centered sexuality education: offering a novel framework for gender-based violence prevention Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 JJ Wright, Joshua Falek, Ellis Greenberg
2SLGBTQ+ people face disproportionately high rates of gender-based violence (GBV) compared to cisgender heterosexual people. Scholars have predominantly responded to this violence by reporting on v...
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Factor structure of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid among Latina/o/x Adolescents Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Alyssa Lozano, Manuel A. Ocasio, Ahnalee M. Brincks, Audrey Harkness, Tatiana Perrino, Guillermo Prado
Measuring sexual orientation involves assessing multiple domains to account for the various conceptualizations adolescents may have. The purpose of this study was to examine: (1) the factor structu...
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Affirming healthcare encounters catalyze psychological empowerment to drive HIV testing among SGM youth in Florida Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Simone J. Skeen, Meardith Pooler-Burgess, Sara K. Shaw Green, J. J. Jackson, Andrew C. Lim, Jordan Purcell, Sylvie Naar
Psychological empowerment (PE) reliably drives HIV-prevention self-efficacy among sexually and gender-minoritized (SGM) young people, who endure housing precarity, and rely on criminalized labor, d...
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The role of affirming faith communities on internalizing symptoms in African American LGBTQ+ emerging adults Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-09 Jocelyn Little, Michele Chan, Gabriela Livas Stein
African American youth identifying as LGBTQ+ (i.e. lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other non-heterosexual and/or non-cisgender identities) are often at increased risk to adverse exp...
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Mental health service use and barriers to help-seeking among LGBTQ+ first-year college students in Chile Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Marcelo A. Crockett, Vania Martínez, Scarlett Mac-Ginty, Álvaro I. Langer, Jorge Gaete, Daniel Núñez, Irene Léniz
This study aimed to describe university students’ use of mental health services and the barriers to help-seeking by sexual orientation and gender identity and to examine the factors related to thes...
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Supporting LGBTQI ± Youth Through Reflexive Allyship: A Review Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Malcolm Macdonald
Published in Journal of LGBT Youth (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Youth Fiction and Trans Representation Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 shea wesley martin, Mollie V. Blackburn
Published in Journal of LGBT Youth (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A thematic analysis of the experiences of prepubertal transgender and gender-diverse children in Sweden Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Kristiina Tyni, Matilda Wurm, Anna Sofia Bratt
Knowledge of prepubertal transgender and gender diverse (TGD) children is limited. This study fills a gap in the research literature by exploring the lived experiences of prepubertal TGD children r...
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Nonsuicidal self-injury in sexual minorities in Korea: the mediating role of intrapersonal functions and depression Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Minkyung Yim, Gyumyoung Kim, Eunjin Jo, Ji-Won Hur
A growing body of literature indicates that individuals belonging to sexual minority groups are at an increased risk of severe nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) behaviors. This study aimed to examine ...
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Reflexive interventions: from damage-centered to desire-based bisexuality research Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Jayna Tavarez
Research about bisexual communities is scarce, demonstrating a need for continued scholarship focusing on their experiences. Much of the qualitative research about LGBTQ communities, and bisexual c...
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LGBTQ Youth and Education: policies and Practices Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Caleb Chandler
Published in Journal of LGBT Youth (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The impact of LGBTQ-inclusive practices on student suicidality in New Mexico high schools Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Alena Kuhlemeier
Sexually and gender diverse (SGD) youth experience suicidality at high rates compared to their cisgender and heterosexual peers. This study sought to investigate the impact on SGD youth suicidality...
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Views and experiences of teachers working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pupils with SEND Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Klaudia Matasovska
In contemporary discourse, sexuality is being presented as something fluid, with research persisting in framing sexuality as negotiable to some extent. This way of examining sexuality is problemati...
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Innovative Practices Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-28
Published in Journal of LGBT Youth (Vol. 21, No. 2, 2024)
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COVID-19 pandemic experiences of LGBTQIA + Asian youth in Canada Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Kenny Chee, Todd Coleman
LGBTQIA + Asian youth face unique challenges due to their intersecting identities (i.e. racial discrimination from LGBTQIA + communities, and LGBTQIA+ -related stigmatization from their Asian cultu...
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The Guest Editors Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
Published in Journal of LGBT Youth (Vol. 21, No. 2, 2024)
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Thriving on Campus: Promoting the Inclusion, Academic Development, and Wellbeing of Diverse 2SLGBTQ+ University and College Students Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Michael R. Woodford, Antonio Duran, Tin Vo, Corey W. Johnson, Lee Airton, Simon Coulombe
Published in Journal of LGBT Youth (Vol. 21, No. 2, 2024)
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The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Trung M. Nguyen
Published in Journal of LGBT Youth (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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LGBTQ + engineering students’ recommendations for sustaining and supporting diversity in STEM Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Lee Rosemary Pradell, Joshua G. Parmenter, Renee V. Galliher, Ryan Berke
LGBTQ + engineering students in higher education face systemic challenges in their educational contexts because of interlocking systems of oppression that privilege majority identities. The current...
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Environmental and individual predictors of resilience for queer-spectrum college students Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Benjamin P. Correia-Harker, Mary Joy Hickey, Max Herteen, Kya Ione Ohlson
In the United States, anti-queer mobilization (e.g. demonstrations, propaganda, political attacks) has increased in recent years. Although campus climate data from the past decades for queer-spectr...
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The role of engagement with BL manga on queer young people’s sense of belonging Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Anastasia Lavrentyeva, Lefteris Patlamazoglou, Grace Mackie
There is limited qualitative research about the role of engagement with Boys Love (BL) manga on queer or questioning young people. The present study aimed to explore the motivations for consuming B...
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Who wants to say ‘Gay?’ Public opinion about LGBT issues in the curriculum Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Morgan Polikoff, Michael Fienberg, Daniel Silver, Marshall Garland, Anna Saavedra, Amie Rapaport
Public schools are currently a source of major political conflict, specifically with regard to topics related to LGBT representation in the curriculum. We report on a large nationally representativ...
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(Homo)masculinities: dating apps and body image among young gay users in Spain Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Arnau Roig-Mora, Rafael Ventura, Olatz Larrea, Vítor Blanco-Fernández
Mobile dating apps (MDAs) generate spaces where masculinities are (co)produced and reproduced, acting as platforms that define the standards of such masculinities. The objective of this article is ...
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Sexual orientation and gender identity expression, internalized stigma, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Samantha E. Lawrence, Veronica Hanna-Walker, Eva S. Lefkowitz
For college students, holding a minoritized, stigmatized sexual orientation, gender identity, or both (SOGI) may have compounded the stress and upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic, impacting not only...
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Queer and trans black, indigenous, and people of color (QTBIPOC): the sun of LGBTQ + rainbow Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Trung M. Nguyen, Cindy Konrad
SOL: Multicultural LGBTQ + Support Network (SOL) is an initiative at Oregon State University (OSU) that uplifts students who are at the intersections between queer and trans identities and nonwhite...
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Mamu: trans indigenous and two-spirit youth coming together to define their needs and to take action Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Annie Pullen Sansfacon, Johnny Boivin, Pasha A. Partridge, Diane Labelle, Edward Ou Jin Lee
Youth who are both trans and Indigenous, whether or not they identify as Two-Spirit experience multiple forms of structural violence at the intersection of gender and Indigeneity. Whether these you...
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Students in the margins: Lesbian, gay, and bi+ students’ perceptions of school climate and discrimination Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Emily Herry, Kelly Lynn Mulvey
This study examines how youth evaluate their school climate and experiences of discrimination within public schools in the Southeastern U.S. Participants included 9th (N = 499, Mage = 14.67, SD = 0...
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Students’ perceptions of all-gender restrooms after implementation Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Anna Pope, Jacob Randall
The present study investigates perceptions toward inclusive restrooms after implementation on a college campus. The campus implemented ‘all-gender restrooms’ to reduce restroom-related stress and b...
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Examining campus support systems for LGBQ+ college students’ mental health and well-being Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Steven Feldman, Allison BrckaLorenz
In this study, we explore LGBQ+ college students’ experiences related to mental health and wellbeing, using the Proud & Thriving Framework. Our research utilizes a large-scale, multi-institutional,...
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They don’t owe you their story: conceptualizing racialized queer care through protective spaces Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Christina B. Arayata, Vanessa Vigneswaramoorthy
Guided by a love politic and centrifugal intersectionality we demonstrate how whiteness, homonormative whiteness, and white heteronormativity alienates racialized queer students in both 2SLGBTQ + a...
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Belongingness, connectedness & engagement: The impacts of an LGBTQ + residential learning community Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Brittanie Atteberry-Ash, Jessica R. Williams, Hayden T. DuBois, Beth Pearson
University housing can play a significant role in undergraduate students’ college experiences. Unfortunately, many LGBTQ + students face a myriad of harmful experiences on campus, including in camp...
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Queer crip enrollments: 2SLGBTQ mad, mentally ill, neurodivergent, and/or disabled college students Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Andrew J. Ives, Becki Elkins
Queer crip enrollment patterns describe the unique ways Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning and disabled college students enter and persist in higher education. Eleva...
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Beyond gender inclusive housing: building a trans and nonbinary residential experience Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Christopher C. Stone-Sewalish
Supporting trans and nonbinary students in residence halls is critically important given the harassment, discrimination, and violence trans and nonbinary students face. Further, health outcomes are...
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Queering racialized designations: centering queer and trans latine students at an emerging hispanic serving institution (eHSI) Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Gabi C. Ortiz
The holistic needs of Queer and Trans Latine students have been habitually excluded from prominent discussion in US higher education. This paper positions itself as an urgent addition to the litera...
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Risk and protective factors for suicidal ideation and attempt: comparing gender diverse and cisgender youth Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Holly Zell, David C. R. Kerr
Transgender and gender diverse adolescents are at especially high risk for suicidal behavior compared with cisgender peers. Based on ideation-to-action models of suicide, study aims were to compare...
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Queer umbrella: a student-employee collaboration to enhance 2SLGBTQ+ well-being and belonging Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Quinn Hafen, Shiloh Dailey, Jordan Brooks, Jennifer Currin-McCulloch
Students and employees from Colorado State University School of Social Work partnered to co-lead a comprehensive student and employee community-building initiative focused on enhancing 2SLGBTQ+ stu...
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Three years of Camp Qmunity: an interdisciplinary LGBTQIA + summer intensive program Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Archana A. Pathak, Maurice N. Gattis
LGBTQIA + college students are navigating a variety of social environments on college campuses. Faculty support, interaction with the LGBTQIA + community, and LGBTQIA + curriculum content are impor...
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Doing it together, but in a queer way: joyful worldmaking with 2SLGBTQI + folks in Atlantic Canada Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Melissa Keehn, Casey Burkholder, Katie MacEntee, Megan Hill, Aaron Beaumont, Symone Hunt
This paper explores the joyful worldmaking that circulated between a group of 35 queer and trans adults and youth from across Atlantic Canada—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and N...
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Practical insights from the Human Rights Campaign’s HBCU PrEP peer educator program Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Jarrel T. Johnson, Leslie D. Hall, Raphael D. Florestal-Kevelier
The recent surge of anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer, intersex, and asexual+ (LGBTQIA+) state legislative bills throughout the United States prompt one to consider the multiple ways Black...
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The mental health needs of sexual and gender minority collegiate clients at university counseling centers Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Lisa F. Platt, Christine J. Schimmel, Jeneice Shaw, Christopher P. Scheitle
University counseling centers (UCCs) are an important resource for sexual and gender minority (SM/GM) students as they navigate their college experience. This study investigated the mental health n...
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School of social welfare transgender justice group: student-led advocacy to promote justice and equity for gender diverse college students Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Emera Greenwood, Allison Colonna, Dani Novo, Samantha Walter, Eli Shafaf, Briana McGeough, Megan S. Paceley
Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) social work students experience microaggressions on campuses, curricula that are often cissexist and stigmatizing, and a lack of inclusive facilities, like gend...
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‘I have had several providers who recognize my humanity’: exploring the overall health and positive healthcare interactions of transgender and gender diverse college students Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 E. B. Gross, Shanna K. Kattari, Monique Steel, Rachelle Wilcox, Susan Ernst, Diana Parrish
To date, little research has focused on transgender and gender diverse (TGD) college students’ experiences with health services; most of the literature around TGD health focuses on barriers to care...
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The misgendering and deadnaming survey: An innovative, co-designed campus change project to catalyze improvement Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Chris Woods, Allison J. Smith
Misgendering and deadnaming can have a negative impact on the experiences and wellbeing of transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive (TGNB) students in higher education. As a part of a larger e...
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Identifying stressors inhibiting belonging, visibility, and peer inclusion for college students with MIoSG in STEM Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Annemarie Vaccaro, Orianna D. Carvalho, Meg C. Jones, Ryan A. Miller, Desiree Forsythe, Rachel E. Friedensen, Rachael Forester
With constantly changing political landscapes affecting the ability of college students with minoritized identities of sexuality and/or gender (MIoSG; Vaccaro et al., 2015) to thrive on campus, hig...
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Addressing gender in early childhood education and care in Slovenia Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Mojca Lukan, Andreja Hočevar, Mojca Kovač Šebart
We present how gender treatment is envisaged in the formal framework that defines early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Slovenia, with special emphasis on the curricular document, which fram...
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American LGBTIQ+ youth using waived or parent/guardian informed consent: investigating social support and life satisfaction Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Sarah Kiperman, Emily Srisarajivakul, Carrie E. Lorig, Carla Kevern
Minimal research in the United States has investigated how LGBTIQ+ youth who use waived consent– an ethical research method that facilitates inclusion for minors when informed consent poses a barri...
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Protective factors for transgender and gender non-conforming youth’s high school experience: a systematic literature review Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Lu Xu, Rachel Roegman
This systematic review provides an overview of the empirical research relating to protective experiences of transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) high school students. 22 studies were identi...
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Extrafamilial stressors in families of transgender adolescents referred for gender-affirming medical care: a mixed-methods analysis Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Laura Douglas, Annie Pullen Sansfaçon, Mathé-Manuel Daigneault, Kathy Nixon Speechley, Emily Sanders, Greta R. Bauer
Transgender and nonbinary (TNB) adolescents and their families often experience trans-specific, extrafamilial stressors, which may increase when adolescents come out and try to access gender-affirm...
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The majors of transgender and gender diverse college students Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Kenneth J. White, Megan McCoy, Kim Love
There is a documented wealth gap between cisgender and transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals. One potential contributing factor to the wealth gap is college major selection. Certain coll...
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Preparing LGBTQ youth for the high school to college transition: a multidimensional approach Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Hao-Jan Luh, Johanna deLeyer-Tiarks, Hailey Wojcik, Francis Mandracchia
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) students experience a host of poor high school to college transition outcomes when compared to their cisgender, heterosexual count...
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“Bisexuality’s never enough…”: using composite narratives to explore bisexual students’ experiences within LGBTQ campus spaces Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Jayna Tavarez
Despite ongoing efforts to improve campus climate for marginalized students, queer- and trans-spectrum students continue to experience their college campuses as hostile and unwelcoming spaces. Bise...
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The future is trans: defining space for transgender youth in the Handbook of Transgender Studies Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 M Ilac, Bryan Cochran
Published in Journal of LGBT Youth (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Sex(uality) Education for Trans and Gender Diverse Youth in Australia Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Darla Linville
Published in Journal of LGBT Youth (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Key considerations for conducting qualitative research with LGBTQ + youth Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Caitlin M. Nye, Jennifer A. Livingston, Amy Hequembourg
Abstract Qualitative research involving lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) youth must be sensitive to their exposure to stressors resulting from heteronormativity, cisnormativity, homophobia, and transphobia. This scoping review was conducted to explore unique methodological strategies for conducting qualitative data collection with LGBTQ + youth and identify any themes on facilitators
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The role of sexual and gender identity in the life aspirations of Portuguese youth Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Beatriz Alves, Jorge Gato
Abstract Positive life aspirations among adolescents and young adults have been associated with greater wellbeing in the future. However, belonging to a stigmatized minority may jeopardize this process. In this work, we sought to understand the role of sexual and gender identity in the life aspirations (desires and expectations) of adolescents and young adults (14–19 years), attending secondary education
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Disrupting racism– young ethnic queers in white queer Aotearoa New Zealand Journal of LGBT Youth (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 C. Nakhid, Z. Abu Ali, M. Fu, L. Vano, C. Yachinta, M. Tuwe
Abstract Queer ethnic young people in Aotearoa New Zealand are a multi-marginalized group, many of whom are met with racism and exclusion from a predominantly white queer community. Very little is known about how young ethnic queers in Aotearoa navigate a community that inheres the ideals and structures of racism. This in-depth qualitative study of 43 queer ethnic young people living in two of the