Historical and social forces in the Iridescent Life Course: key life events and experiences of transgender older adults.

The lives of transgender older adults are rarely examined, and little is known about the critical life events and experiences of this population. Informed by the Iridescent Life Course, this study investigates how intersectionality, fluidity, context and power impact the life events and experiences of trans older adults by generation and gender. Utilising 2014 data from the National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study: Aging with Pride (National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging funded), a national sample of LGBTQ+ individuals 50 years and older, living in the United States of America, were analysed to examine life events of 205 transgender older adults, including identity development, work, bias, kin relationships, social and community engagement, health and wellbeing.

Physical Violence and Psychological Distress Among Asian and Pacific Islander Sexual Minority Men in the United States Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

This study examined differences in self-reported physical violence and psychological distress among Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) sexual minority men (SMM) before and during the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic (2019 vs. 2020). We used data from 1127 AAPI SMM who completed the 2019 (August 2019-December 2019) and 2020 (August 2020-January 2021) cycles of the American Men's Internet Survey (AMIS).

To Go or Not to Go: Factors That Influence Health Care Use Among Trans Adults in a Non-Representative U.S. Sample.

Trans people tend to utilize health care at rates lower than cisgender people, which commonly results in short-term and long-term unfavorable health outcomes. Theoretically informed by Andersen's behavioral model of health services use and Lerner and Robles' adapted behavioral model of health services use for transgender people, the current study examined how individual characteristics of trans people along with the external environment and health care service environment they must navigate impact their health care utilization. Binary logistic regression was used to analyze data from the 2015 United States Trans Survey (N = 27,715), the largest trans sample to date.

Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Asian Americans in the United States: Experiences of Violence, Discrimination, and Family Support.

Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) Asian Americans in the U.S. have multiple stigmatized identities, yet their experiences of violence and discrimination are not well understood.

Having to "Hold It": Factors That Influence the Avoidance of Using Public Bathrooms among Transgender People.

Transgender people often avoid going to the bathroom in public, at work, and at school because they are afraid of facing problems while using them. Utilizing the 2015 U.S.

Educating "Helping" Professional Students to "Help" Trans People Navigate Their Health Care Needs: A Review of Recent Literature.

In the 2015 United States Trans Survey, trans people overwhelmingly indicated that training health-care providers about trans health is an urgent policy priority within the US. This literature review examines the types of educational training interventions health professional schools have developed from 2015-2020 focused on trans health. This review revealed that the fields of medicine and interprofessional education have created the majority of interventions, which tend to increase students' knowledge, comfort, and confidence working with trans patients.

Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Health Care Utilization in the United States for Transgender People: A Review of Recent Literature.

Transgender people face numerous barriers when utilizing health care in the United States. The current study sought to highlight transgender consumer perspectives in order to present theoretically informed, concrete recommendations for increasing transgender health care utilization. The search yielded several prominent themes associated with barriers to health care for transgender people: 1) provider lack of knowledge concerning transgender identity issues and transgender health issues, 2) transgender patients' previous negative experiences with the health care system or anticipation of these experiences, 3) transgender patients' inability to pay for health care services, and 4) health care provider refusal to provide health care services to transgender people.

Welfare, Liberty, and Security for All? U.S. Sex Education Policy and the 1996 Title V Section 510 of the Social Security Act.

When adolescents delay (meaning they wait until after middle school) engaging in sexual intercourse, they use condoms at higher rates and have fewer sexual partners than those who have sex earlier, thus resulting in a lower risk for unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. The 1996 Section 510 of Title V of the Social Security Act (often referred to as A-H) is a policy that promotes abstinence-only-until-marriage education (AOE) within public schools. Using Stone's (2012) policy analysis framework, this article explores how A-H limits welfare, liberty, and security among adolescents due to the poor empirical outcomes of AOE policy.