The transgender-specific intimate partner violence scale for research and practice: Validation in a sample of transgender women.

ABSTRACT:

Study/research objective

To develop and validate a brief intimate partner violence (IPV) scale that screens for controlling behaviors and psychological abuse tactics directed toward transgender individuals.

Rationale

Transgender individuals are at elevated risk of physical and sexual IPV compared to cisgender individuals. IPV often takes on unique dimensions against transgender individuals, such as when an abusive partner threatens to "out" the transgender person, or use other tactics that weaponize transphobia within the relationship. Standard IPV screeners do not assess this type of transgender-specific IPV (T-IPV).

Methods

Between March 2018 and October 2019, a T-IPV scale was tested in two samples (in-person and online) of transfeminine adults (i.e. assigned a mal

SUBMITTER: Peitzmeier SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8671347 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature