Transgender Stigma and Health: A Critical Review of Stigma Determinants, Mechanisms, and Interventions
By Jaclyn M White Hughto, S. Reisner, J. Pachankis. Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2015
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Rationale Transgender people in the United States experience widespread prejudice, discrimination, violence, and other forms of stigma. Objective This critical review aims to integrate the literature on stigma towards transgender people in the US. Results This review demonstrates that transgender stigma limits opportunities and access to resources in a number of critical domains (e.g., employment, healthcare), persistently affecting the physical and mental health of transgender people. The applied social ecological model employed here elucidates that transgender stigma operates at multiple levels (i.e., individual, interpersonal, structural) to impact health. Stigma prevention and coping interventions hold promise for reducing stigma and its adverse health-related effects in transgender populations. Conclusion Additional research is needed to document the causal relationship between stigma and adverse health as well as the mediators and moderators of stigma in US transgender populations. Multi-level interventions to prevent stigma towards transgender people are warranted.
Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- Health Care Experiences of Transgender Binary and Nonbinary University Students (2019, background): “Interventions that enhance structural and interpersonal supports (e.g., access to trans-competent providers) can serve as a buffer to minority stress and reduce negative outcomes (White Hughto et al., 2015).”
- Transgender Population Size in the United States: a Meta-Regression of Population-Based Probability Samples. (2017, background): “Research has shown that transgender individuals around the world and in the United States are exposed to widespread social stigma, discrimination, harassment, and physical and sexual abuse.(2,3) Compared with the general population, a national survey conducted in the United States in 2008 found that”
- A Minority Stress Perspective on Transgender Individuals’ Experiences With Misgendering (2016, positive): “For example, transgender people are subject to discrimination as well as physical and sexual violence because of the stigma attached to their gender presentation and identity, and these experiences are tied to anxiety, depression, substance abuse, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts (e.g., Cleme”