Predictors of Psychological Well-being in Transgender and Gender Diverse Australians: Outness, Authenticity, and Harassment
Introduction LGBTQIA+ Australians experience disproportionately poor mental health. Openness, or “outness,” about a gay, lesbian, or bisexual identity may improve well-being at the cost of eliciting harassment. The effects of disclosing or concealing a transgender or gender diverse (TGD) identity ar...
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LGBTQIA+ Australians experience disproportionately poor mental health. Openness, or “outness,” about a gay, lesbian, or bisexual identity may improve well-being at the cost of eliciting harassment. The effects of disclosing or concealing a transgender or gender diverse (TGD) identity are scarcely studied.
Methods
A cross-sectional sample of 202 Australian TGD adults completed an anonymous online survey in 2022.
Results
A four-factor model of outness, authenticity, age, and harassment accounted for 30% of variance in psychological well-being. Outness about a TGD identity predicted improved psychological well-being; this relationship was partially mediated by feelings of authenticity. Transphobic harassment predicted diminished psychological well-being and was reported frequently by participants, regardless of their outness. The highest rates of harassment were reported by online dating users seeking cisgender men or using Grindr.
Conclusions
Findings indicate that outness about a transgender identity can predict higher psychological well-being, and that harassment is experienced disproportionately by TGD Australians.
Policy Implications
Creating safe environments for TGD outness may be instrumental to confronting the community’s ongoing mental health crisis. The disproportionate prominence of harassment faced by TGD individuals should be addressed with legal protections and education reform. Outness about one’s sexual orientation, current gender identity, and sex assigned at birth should all be separated in research and clinical practice. |
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LGBTQIA+ Australians experience disproportionately poor mental health. Openness, or “outness,” about a gay, lesbian, or bisexual identity may improve well-being at the cost of eliciting harassment. The effects of disclosing or concealing a transgender or gender diverse (TGD) identity are scarcely studied.
Methods
A cross-sectional sample of 202 Australian TGD adults completed an anonymous online survey in 2022.
Results
A four-factor model of outness, authenticity, age, and harassment accounted for 30% of variance in psychological well-being. Outness about a TGD identity predicted improved psychological well-being; this relationship was partially mediated by feelings of authenticity. Transphobic harassment predicted diminished psychological well-being and was reported frequently by participants, regardless of their outness. The highest rates of harassment were reported by online dating users seeking cisgender men or using Grindr.
Conclusions
Findings indicate that outness about a transgender identity can predict higher psychological well-being, and that harassment is experienced disproportionately by TGD Australians.
Policy Implications
Creating safe environments for TGD outness may be instrumental to confronting the community’s ongoing mental health crisis. The disproportionate prominence of harassment faced by TGD individuals should be addressed with legal protections and education reform. Outness about one’s sexual orientation, current gender identity, and sex assigned at birth should all be separated in research and clinical practice.</description><identifier>ISSN: 1868-9884</identifier><identifier>EISSN: 1553-6610</identifier><identifier>DOI: 10.1007/s13178-023-00914-z</identifier><language>eng</language><publisher>New York: Springer US</publisher><subject>Adults ; Authenticity ; Behavioral Science and Psychology ; Bisexuality ; Brownfields ; Cisgender ; Clinical medicine ; Clinical research ; Disclosure ; Education reform ; Gays & lesbians ; Gender identity ; Harassment ; Lesbianism ; LGBTQ people ; Mental health ; Openness ; Personal relationships ; Psychological well being ; Psychology ; Sexual Behavior ; Sexual orientation ; Sexuality ; Social networks ; Social policy ; Social Sciences ; Transgender persons ; Victimization ; Well being</subject><ispartof>Sexuality research & social policy, 2024-09, Vol.21 (3), p.1047-1058</ispartof><rights>The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023. Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.</rights><lds50>peer_reviewed</lds50><woscitedreferencessubscribed>false</woscitedreferencessubscribed><citedby>FETCH-LOGICAL-c319t-262b33a1e5f34f45a614dd3b08de0dca39d939d07c83179c2d0e652d9984da763</citedby><cites>FETCH-LOGICAL-c319t-262b33a1e5f34f45a614dd3b08de0dca39d939d07c83179c2d0e652d9984da763</cites><orcidid>0000-0002-3215-8940 ; 0000-0003-3828-8030</orcidid></display><links><openurl>$$Topenurl_article</openurl><openurlfulltext>$$Topenurlfull_article</openurlfulltext><thumbnail>$$Tsyndetics_thumb_exl</thumbnail><linktopdf>$$Uhttps://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13178-023-00914-z$$EPDF$$P50$$Gspringer$$H</linktopdf><linktohtml>$$Uhttps://link.springer.com/10.1007/s13178-023-00914-z$$EHTML$$P50$$Gspringer$$H</linktohtml><link.rule.ids>314,780,784,27864,27922,27923,30997,33772,41486,42555,51317</link.rule.ids></links><search><creatorcontrib>Osmetti, Lily A.</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Allen, Kachina R.</creatorcontrib><title>Predictors of Psychological Well-being in Transgender and Gender Diverse Australians: Outness, Authenticity, and Harassment</title><title>Sexuality research & social policy</title><addtitle>Sex Res Soc Policy</addtitle><description>Introduction
LGBTQIA+ Australians experience disproportionately poor mental health. Openness, or “outness,” about a gay, lesbian, or bisexual identity may improve well-being at the cost of eliciting harassment. The effects of disclosing or concealing a transgender or gender diverse (TGD) identity are scarcely studied.
Methods
A cross-sectional sample of 202 Australian TGD adults completed an anonymous online survey in 2022.
Results
A four-factor model of outness, authenticity, age, and harassment accounted for 30% of variance in psychological well-being. Outness about a TGD identity predicted improved psychological well-being; this relationship was partially mediated by feelings of authenticity. Transphobic harassment predicted diminished psychological well-being and was reported frequently by participants, regardless of their outness. The highest rates of harassment were reported by online dating users seeking cisgender men or using Grindr.
Conclusions
Findings indicate that outness about a transgender identity can predict higher psychological well-being, and that harassment is experienced disproportionately by TGD Australians.
Policy Implications
Creating safe environments for TGD outness may be instrumental to confronting the community’s ongoing mental health crisis. The disproportionate prominence of harassment faced by TGD individuals should be addressed with legal protections and education reform. 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LGBTQIA+ Australians experience disproportionately poor mental health. Openness, or “outness,” about a gay, lesbian, or bisexual identity may improve well-being at the cost of eliciting harassment. The effects of disclosing or concealing a transgender or gender diverse (TGD) identity are scarcely studied.
Methods
A cross-sectional sample of 202 Australian TGD adults completed an anonymous online survey in 2022.
Results
A four-factor model of outness, authenticity, age, and harassment accounted for 30% of variance in psychological well-being. Outness about a TGD identity predicted improved psychological well-being; this relationship was partially mediated by feelings of authenticity. Transphobic harassment predicted diminished psychological well-being and was reported frequently by participants, regardless of their outness. The highest rates of harassment were reported by online dating users seeking cisgender men or using Grindr.
Conclusions
Findings indicate that outness about a transgender identity can predict higher psychological well-being, and that harassment is experienced disproportionately by TGD Australians.
Policy Implications
Creating safe environments for TGD outness may be instrumental to confronting the community’s ongoing mental health crisis. The disproportionate prominence of harassment faced by TGD individuals should be addressed with legal protections and education reform. Outness about one’s sexual orientation, current gender identity, and sex assigned at birth should all be separated in research and clinical practice.</abstract><cop>New York</cop><pub>Springer US</pub><doi>10.1007/s13178-023-00914-z</doi><tpages>12</tpages><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3215-8940</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3828-8030</orcidid></addata></record> |
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