Thesis
Geographies of Transgender Minority Stress: The Role Of US States in Shaping Transgender Mental Health
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
12/2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000007201
Abstract
While researchers have made progress in discussing the effect of geographic context on sexual minority health, research into transgender health has been a recent development. To further our understanding, I used pairwise comparisons of means and proportions, along with weighted and survey-adjusted generalized ordered logistic regression with robust standard errors to evaluate the association between attitudinal context and mental health. Attitudinal context referred to whether someone lived in a state within in the bottom third (tolerant), middle third (average), or top third (intolerant) of states in relation to public support for anti-trans bathroom bills. There were 3 key findings. First, transgender adults had worse mental health outcomes regardless of the general attitudinal context. Second, the association between attitudinal context and adverse mental health outcomes was only significant when models did not adjust for interpersonal discrimination—showing that attitudinal context likely influences the degree of discrimination
experienced by any adult. Third, while the differential in mental health was not significantly different across contexts, the differences in mental health that did exist were only present for cisgender adults—meaning transgender adults did not benefit from living in more tolerant contexts.
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Details
- Title
- Geographies of Transgender Minority Stress
- Creators
- Zoey Rawson
- Contributors
- Justin Denney (Chair)Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson (Committee Member)Mariana Amorim (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of Sociology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 61
- Identifiers
- 99901195339701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis