Open AccessDevelopmental Milestones in Young Transgender Women in Two American Cities: Results from a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample
Author(s) -
Arjee Restar,
Harry Jin,
Aaron S. Breslow,
Anthony Surace,
Nadav AntebiGruszka,
Lisa M. Kuhns,
Sari L. Reisner,
Robert Garofalo,
Matthew J. Mimiaga
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
transgender health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.242
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 2688-4887
pISSN - 2380-193X
DOI - 10.1089/trgh.2019.0008
Subject(s) - milestone , transgender , ethnic group , developmental milestone , ethnically diverse , psychological intervention , cohort , psychology , human sexuality , sexual identity , race (biology) , demography , identity (music) , developmental psychology , gerontology , gender studies , medicine , sociology , geography , psychiatry , physics , archaeology , anthropology , acoustics , psychoanalysis
To understand developmental milestones among young transgender women (YTW), we mapped age estimates per milestone by race/ethnicity and cohort age using baseline data from Project Lifeskills ( n =298). Compared with older and white participants, younger black, Latina, Asian, and other/mixed race transgender (trans) women reported earlier experiences of sexual debut, transfeminine identity disclosure to others, sexual debut as trans, transfeminine identity expression in public, and integration of hormone use. Findings call for increased research and utilization of gender-affirmative interventions among YTW, with incorporation of nuanced, intersecting roles of race/ethnicity and cohort age across milestones.
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