A scoping review of survey research with gender minority adolescents and youth in low and middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Survey data that categorizes gender identity in binary terms and conflates sex and gender limits knowledge around the experience of gender minority populations, whose gender identity or expression does not align with the sex they were assigned at birth. In this review, we outline the existing survey research on the experience of a gender minority demographic for whom there is particularly limited data: adolescents and youth in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Methods

This paper is a scoping review of peer-reviewed articles, published in English, that use survey data to examine the experience of gender minority adolescents and youth in LMICs. We conducted a search on two major databases using key terms related to gender identity, adolescence and youth, and

SUBMITTER: Pike I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9831317 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature