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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,014 Views
12 Pages

Gender Identity Orientation and Sexual Activity—A Survey among Transgender and Gender-Diverse (TGD) Individuals in Norway

  • Elsa Mari Almås,
  • Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad,
  • Silje-Håvard Bolstad,
  • Tor-Ivar Karlsen and
  • Alain Giami

16 February 2024

Background: The understanding and conceptualizing of gender and sexuality are continuously negotiated between individuals and cultures. Recently, new gender identity orientations have emerged, fighting pathologization and establishing new spaces and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
936 Views
24 Pages

27 June 2025

Nonconsensual sexual experiences (NSEs) can take many forms, including rape and sexual assault. NSE acknowledgment has been linked to several positive and negative outcomes. A person’s acknowledgment of their NSEs may be in part due to the exte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,632 Views
20 Pages

12 September 2018

This article encourages postsecondary educators to expand the scope of applications of universal design and universal instructional design by exploring how principles of UD and UID can be applied to other social identities, and specifically to gender...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,239 Views
15 Pages

9 February 2023

Little research has heretofore examined differences in the sexual well-being and sexual health outcomes between female and male youth in the foster care system. This cross-sectional study examined these differences and as well as how sexual identity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,683 Views
14 Pages

Introduction: The non-expression of sexual orientation and gender identity can affect mental health in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex population in Peru. Method: Secondary, observational, analytical, and cross-sectional analyse...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,504 Views
17 Pages

The Intersectionality of Gender, Sexual Identity, and Disability in Disaster Risk Reduction in OECD Countries: A Rapid Scoping Review

  • Tonia Crawford,
  • Kuo-yi Jade Chang,
  • Farhana Nila,
  • Parvathi Subramaniam,
  • Loriana Bethune,
  • Debra Parkinson and
  • Michelle Villeneuve

9 November 2023

People with disability are disproportionally affected by disasters due to layers of marginalisation from an interaction of personal, social, economic, political, and environmental factors. These intersect with gender, gender identity, and sexual orie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,053 Views
10 Pages

Sexual and gender identity is a fundamental part of one’s overall identity and plays an important role in human functioning. Questioning one’s sexuality associated with low level of self-concept clarity, certainty, consistency and stabili...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,756 Views
31 Pages

Sexual health is a vital aspect of overall well-being, yet individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face significant stigma and discrimination, affecting self-esteem, relationships, and sexual expression. This review examined the recent litera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,250 Views
14 Pages

9 October 2022

The objective was to replicate and extend earlier findings examining the intersection of sexual orientation and religious affiliation predicting suicidality. Current analyses used updated data and extended prior work by examining how affiliation rela...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,571 Views
16 Pages

Exploring the Experiences of Heterosexual and Asexual Transgender People

  • J. E. Sumerau,
  • Harry Barbee,
  • Lain A. B. Mathers and
  • Victoria Eaton

15 September 2018

This article explores two cases at the intersection of emerging studies of transgender experience: heterosexualities and asexualities. Drawing on data from a mixed-methodological survey, we analyze the ways 57 asexual transgender people and 42 hetero...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,354 Views
14 Pages

A growing body of research documents that bullying victimization is associated with delinquent behavior. There is an increasing need to better illuminate the factors that might moderate this relationship. This study examined whether the motivation to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,151 Views
26 Pages

Psychosocial Determinants of Occupational Health Through the Lenses of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

  • António Oliveira,
  • Iara Teixeira,
  • Felipe Alckmin-Carvalho and
  • Henrique Pereira

18 February 2025

Understanding the determinants of the occupational health of specific populations and their work-related vulnerabilities is important for developing more effective psychosocial interventions. The aims of this study were (1) to explore differences in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,695 Views
17 Pages

Background: Alcohol-related sexual consequences are common in college students. A newly developed 41-item Alcohol-Related Sexual Consequences Scale has recently been evaluated in at-risk young adults in the U.S. The current study aims to validate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,215 Views
21 Pages

The present study forms part of the project “Cross-disciplinary education for sexual, body, and gender diversity” (Code 419). The aim of this study was to analyze the role played by the psychoeducational variables involved in burnout (res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
857 Views
12 Pages

Identity, Discrimination, and Resilience Among Two-Spirit Indigenous Emerging Adults

  • Steven L. Berman,
  • Annie Pullen Sansfaҫon,
  • Elizabeth Diane Labelle and
  • Aubrianna L. Stuckey

6 November 2025

Previous research has shown that Two-Spirit Indigenous people may experience more trauma, interracial violence, and violent crimes than youth from other cultural backgrounds. This study aims to examine how identifying as Two-Spirit, an identity that...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
12,699 Views
26 Pages

Understanding Young Adolescent Identity and Experiences Through Internal Dimensions: A Scoping Review

  • Dezeré J. Martin,
  • Stacie K. Pettit,
  • Sandra L. Stacki,
  • Kristie W. Smith and
  • Micki M. Caskey

18 February 2025

The purpose of this study was to explore multiple facets of young adolescent identity and related experiences through a scoping literature review. Based on Gardenswartz and Rowe’s Four Layers of Diversity Model, we specifically examined extant...

  • Review
  • Open Access
67 Citations
37,331 Views
12 Pages

Brain Sex Differences Related to Gender Identity Development: Genes or Hormones?

  • Jiska Ristori,
  • Carlotta Cocchetti,
  • Alessia Romani,
  • Francesca Mazzoli,
  • Linda Vignozzi,
  • Mario Maggi and
  • Alessandra Daphne Fisher

The complex process of sexual differentiation is known to be influenced by biological and environmental determinants. The present review has the aim of summarizing the most relevant studies on the biological basis of sexual development, and in partic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,561 Views
14 Pages

12 April 2022

This paper is based on an empirical study using in-depth qualitative interviews that examines how Roman Catholic undergraduate seminarians in the United States understand gender, sexuality and masculinity. The findings describe how seminarians reject...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,776 Views
13 Pages

14 December 2019

One of the central issues facing the trans community today is not only to be counted, but also how to be properly counted. If and how trans people are counted has a huge impact on what we know, or what we think we know, about the trans community. Whe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,923 Views
13 Pages

Using Shallow and Deep Learning to Automatically Detect Hate Motivated by Gender and Sexual Orientation on Twitter in Spanish

  • Carlos Arcila-Calderón,
  • Javier J. Amores,
  • Patricia Sánchez-Holgado and
  • David Blanco-Herrero

The increasing phenomenon of “cyberhate” is concerning because of the potential social implications of this form of verbal violence, which is aimed at already-stigmatized social groups. According to information collected by the Ministry of the Interi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,406 Views
9 Pages

Background: This study assessed the associations between children’s experiences of discrimination based on race/ethnicity and sexual orientation/gender identity and their parents’ anxiety, depressive symptoms, and self-rated health. Metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,255 Views
16 Pages

10 December 2024

This article provides findings from a small-scale project undertaken to understand the student experience of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer plus (LGBTQ+) student community in a large post-92 university in England. Focus groups wer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,551 Views
25 Pages

No Women’s Land: Australian Women Veterans’ Experiences of the Culture of Military Service and Transition

  • Sharon Lawn,
  • Elaine Waddell,
  • Louise Roberts,
  • Pilar Rioseco,
  • Tiffany Beks,
  • Tiffany Sharp,
  • Liz McNeill,
  • David Everitt,
  • Lee Bowes and
  • Dylan Mordaunt
  • + 4 authors

Women’s experiences of military service and transition occur within a highly dominant masculinized culture. The vast majority of research on military veterans reflects men’s experiences and needs. Women veterans’ experiences, and th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,428 Views
24 Pages

Australian Women Veterans’ Experiences of Gendered Disempowerment and Abuse Within Military Service and Transition

  • Sharon Lawn,
  • Elaine Waddell,
  • Louise Roberts,
  • Pilar Rioseco,
  • Tiffany Beks,
  • Liz McNeill,
  • David Everitt,
  • Tiffany Sharp,
  • Dylan Mordaunt and
  • Amanda Tarrant
  • + 3 authors

Disempowering experiences of military service and transition for women veterans exist within an established, dominant, masculinised culture, in which their presence is highly visible, challenged, and often subject to institutional prejudice. Sexual a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,466 Views
19 Pages

18 March 2025

This article offers insights into conceptualizing a different angle of cultural heritage in its intangible form and generational inheritance, in relation to migrant community bonds and their impacts on embodied stories of trauma and healing. This art...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,727 Views
15 Pages

13 November 2024

Background/Objectives: Socioeconomic hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with lower vaccine uptake. Since the pandemic has exacerbated socioeconomic challenges faced by sexual and gender minority populations, including employment inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,186 Views
9 Pages

Collection of Data on Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity by U.S. Public Health Data and Monitoring Systems, 2015–2018

  • Alissa C. Kress,
  • Asia Asberry,
  • Julio Dicent Taillepierre,
  • Michelle M. Johns,
  • Pattie Tucker and
  • Ana Penman-Aguilar

We aimed to assess Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data systems on the extent of data collection on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity as well as on age and race/ethnicity. Between March and September 2019, we searched 11 f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
946 Views
12 Pages

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Associated with Sexual Practices, Psychoactive Substance Use and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among HIV PrEP Users

  • Marcos Morais Santos Silva,
  • Lucas Cardoso dos Santos,
  • Mayara Maria Souza de Almeida and
  • Lucia Yasuko Izumi Nichiata

HIV disproportionately affects key populations (MSM, transgender people, sex workers and psychoactive substance users), who face greater social vulnerability and limited healthcare access. This study aimed at analyzing sexual orientation and gender i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,397 Views
29 Pages

27 February 2025

Attitudes toward sexual and gender minority people is a generative field of study leading to theoretical and practical advances. Adding to this body of literature, we sought to investigate relationships between attitudes toward different sexual orien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,344 Views
11 Pages

The aims of this cross-sectional survey study were to examine the association between sexual orientation microaggression and anxiety and depression among young adult lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals in Taiwan, as well as to examine the me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,412 Views
24 Pages

LGBT+ Youth Perspectives on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Questions in the Growing Up in Ireland Survey: A Qualitative Study

  • Nerilee Ceatha,
  • Aaron C. C. Koay,
  • Ayrton Kelly,
  • Tara Killeen,
  • Katie McCabe,
  • James Murray,
  • Jayson Pope,
  • Niamh Scully,
  • Conor Buggy and
  • Des Crowley

15 February 2023

The increasing importance of identifying lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) populations is a key driver in changes to demographic data collection in representative surveys of youth. While such population-based data are rare, Growing Up in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,838 Views
40 Pages

This exploratory qualitative study investigates the challenges faced by young adults (aged 18–40) with severe mental illness (SMI), intellectual disabilities (IDs), and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in navigating body perception, affectivity,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,383 Views
20 Pages

Some men who have sex with men (MSM) were assigned female at birth (AFB) and/or identify as trans men. Little is known about how these men differ from other MSM. We compared sexual and mental health indicators from the European MSM Internet Survey (E...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,434 Views
21 Pages

Adaptation of the Information, Motivation, and Behavioral Skills Framework for Understanding COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors among Youth and Young Adults by Sexual Identity, Gender Identity and Race/Ethnicity

  • Gregory Phillips,
  • Jiayi Xu,
  • Michael G. Curtis,
  • Megan M. Ruprecht,
  • Shahin Davoudpour,
  • Joseph Choi,
  • Kay Quiballo,
  • Sophia Huang and
  • Kathryn Macapagal

12 December 2023

Youth and young adults (YYA) have been uniquely affected by COVID-19. Behavioral models have not yet been applied to understand YYA’s preventive behavior, though the Information–Motivation–Behavior (IMB) model may be appropriate. We...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
16,494 Views
14 Pages

Sex and Sexuality in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Scoping Review on a Neglected but Fundamental Issue

  • Maria Grazia Maggio,
  • Patrizia Calatozzo,
  • Antonio Cerasa,
  • Giovanni Pioggia,
  • Angelo Quartarone and
  • Rocco Salvatore Calabrò

24 October 2022

ASD consists of a set of permanent neurodevelopmental conditions, which are studded with social and communication differences, limited interests, and repetitive behaviors. Individuals with ASD have difficulty reading eye gestures and expressions, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,302 Views
16 Pages

5 June 2024

Men who have sex with men are at increased risk of acquiring sexually transmitted infections. Although behavioral and contextual interventions have improved, infections are still spreading. A new focus is needed regarding the influence of sexual comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,548 Views
9 Pages

HPV Vaccination among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Living with or at High-Risk for HIV

  • Elizabeth Mayfield Arnold,
  • S. Kate Bridges,
  • Cameron Goldbeck,
  • Peter Norwood,
  • Dallas Swendeman,
  • Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus and
  • The Adolescent HIV Medicine Trials Network (ATN) CARES Team

Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is epidemic among young people, especially those at highest risk of acquiring HPV-related cancers. Methods: Youth aged 14–24 years old (N = 1628) were recruited from 13 clinics, community agencies, and soc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,738 Views
17 Pages

Queer Experiences of Religion: How Marginalization within a Religion Affects Its Queer Members

  • Rebecca Baird,
  • Camryn H. Hutchins,
  • Seth. E. Kosanovich and
  • Christopher R. Dabbs

29 September 2024

We sought to understand how the mental state of religious queer individuals is affected by religious marginalization and queer identity. Using a multi-method approach, we analyzed data from 626 participants to assess how a queer status affected psych...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
10,227 Views
15 Pages

12 July 2022

Background: Sex education assists students in the development of a healthy sexual identity and relationships. However, students with an intellectual disability tend to receive less holistic sex education as compared to students without a disability....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,396 Views
15 Pages

Subjection to sexual harassment (SH) has been reported more commonly by girls than by boys, by sexual and gender minority youth more than by mainstream youth, and by sexually active youth more than by those not yet experienced in romantic and erotic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,125 Views
17 Pages

Gender Diversity and Mental Health: A Systematic Review of the Impact of Childhood Trauma

  • Jan Francesco Arena,
  • Barbara Adriani,
  • Serena Mancino,
  • Francesca Sarno,
  • Martina Nicole Modesti,
  • Antonio Del Casale and
  • Stefano Ferracuti

Gender-diverse populations are at a higher risk of experiencing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and social stigma, with a significant impact on both mental and overall health. This systematic review, conducted in accordance with PRISMA guideline...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,901 Views
27 Pages

11 January 2021

Extant research has documented police interactions between racial and ethnic minority populations, including negative perceptions of and experiences with the police; police corruption and misconduct; and the deleterious effects of negative relationsh...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,298 Views
19 Pages

2 March 2023

Cultural responsivity in academic research is central to the use of language that is representative and inclusive of Indigenous worldviews on gender and sexuality diversity. This article uses the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and M...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,482 Views
13 Pages

22 August 2022

Takatāpui/LGBTIQ+ people’s housing experiences are poorly understood in Aotearoa, New Zealand, including those of young people. We use data from an online survey to investigate experiences of homelessness, involuntary mobility, and housing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
300 Views
17 Pages

29 December 2025

LGBTQ+ persons and related issues remain barely visible in German academia, reflecting limited acceptance as well as heteronormative and discriminatory structures. This invisibility negatively affects career trajectories, well-being, and protection f...

  • Review
  • Open Access
130 Views
13 Pages

6 January 2026

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people report considerable dissatisfaction with health services compared to heterosexual and/or cisgender people, with health professionals highlighting insufficient training. Teaching about the health of SGM people i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
516 Views
14 Pages

21 November 2025

This study examines the deconstruction of the Targum to Song of Songs, focusing on how binary oppositions and traditional interpretive frameworks are both challenged and reconfigured. While the targumists aim to prevent a potentially ‘sinful re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,180 Views
18 Pages

Internationally, there is increasing recognition that lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) populations experience substantial public health inequalities and require interventions to address these inequalities, yet data on this population is often...

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