Background: Immigrant Latinx transgender people often migrate to the United States because of a desire for increased safety and more opportunities. However, after migrating to the United States, immigrant Latinx transgender people often struggle to access basic needs, including health care, jobs, and stable finances. These struggles are exacerbated for undocumented immigrant Latinx transgender people. There is a gap in the literature regarding needed resources for immigrant Latinx transgender community members living in the United States.
Aims: Utilizing a critical intersectionality framework, the aim of the present study was to investigate the resource needs of immigrant Latinx transgender community members living in the United States.
Methods: A community sample of 18 immigrant Latinx transgender people living in a large metropolitan city in Florida participated in individual semi-structured interviews to explore their community resource needs.
Results: Thematic analysis revealed five themes related to resources that participants needed including: 1) 2) 3) 4) and Two resource need-related themes were identified that pertain specifically to undocumented immigrant Latinx transgender people, including: 1) and 2)
Conclusions: Findings suggest that immigrant Latinx transgender community members in this study provided guidance about broad resources needed to enhance their wellness and safety, and promote liberation of community members. Participants' resource needs suggest the importance of policy and structural level changes from institutions with power that consider and enhance the wellness of immigrant Latinx transgender people. Findings also suggest the need for more tailored interventions and case work to better support immigrant Latinx transgender people.
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January 2025
Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America.
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Ann Med
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Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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University of California San Francisco, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 675 18th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94121, USA; San Francisco Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, 4150 Clement St. San Francisco, CA 94121, USA.
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