Structural transphobia is associated with psychological distress and suicidality in a large national sample of transgender adults.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Transgender adults face increasingly discriminatory laws/policies and prejudicial attitudes in many regions of the United States (US), yet research has neither quantified state-level transphobia using indicators of both, nor considered their collective association with transgender adults' psychological wellbeing, hindering the identification of this potential social determinant of transgender mental health inequity.

Methods

We therefore used factor analysis to develop a more comprehensive structural transphobia measure encompassing 29 indicators of transphobic laws/policies and attitudes at the state level, which we linked to individual-level mental health data from a large national sample of 27,279 transgender adults (ages 18-100) residing in 45 US states and the Di

SUBMITTER: Price MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10171731 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature