"And I don't know how I can protect him from everything that's coming" - A qualitative study on minority stress among parents of transgender adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parents play a central role for transgender adolescents' well-being and their coping with minority stress, like discrimination, rejection and violence. Yet, little is known about the experiences of parents facing minority stress as they support their transgender children who are either awaiting or undergoing medical transition. Therefore, we aimed to first examine minority stress experiences reported by the parents with respect to distal and proximal stressors. Second, we aimed to explore whether experiences relate to children's stress experiences as secondary stress experiences, or if parents report minority stress directed at themselves as primary stress experiences.

Methods

In the context of the participatory TRANS*PARENT study in Berlin, Germany, from April 20

SUBMITTER: Brecht A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12020220 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature