Mapping gender transition sentiment patterns via social media data: toward decreasing transgender mental health disparities.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Transgender people face substantial mental health disparities, and this population's emotional well-being can be particularly volatile during gender transition. Understanding gender transition sentiment patterns can positively impact transgender people by enabling them to anticipate, and put support in place for, particularly difficult time periods. Yet, tracking sentiment over time throughout gender transition is challenging using traditional research methods. This study's objective was to use social media data to understand average gender transition sentiment patterns.

Materials and methods

Computational sentiment analysis and statistics were used to analyze 41 066 posts from 240 Tumblr transition blogs (online spaces where transgender people document gender tran

SUBMITTER: Haimson OL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6696505 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature