Today's Transgender Youth: Health, Well-Being, and Opportunities for Resilience (Paperback)

Description

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This book focuses on resiliency among gender expansive young people in different cultures, exploring how they engage with and leverage school, media, and religious contexts.

The contributions in this volume advance the scholarship regarding the health and well-being of gender expansive young people, at a time where a plethora of recent legislation has limited and removed sundry rights of transgender individuals. While previous scholarship identified disparities among transgender youth, this book approaches resiliency from multiple lenses - from school-based clubs as tools for engagement in advocacy, to proactivity and self-care as strategies to mitigate struggles. These empirical chapters focus on diverse contexts across different countries including Canada, the USA and Australia. The book also includes important commentaries from leading scholars in the field debating the controversial issue of transgender youth "desisting" (to no longer be transgender).

This book will be of interest to those studying recent legislation on transgender rights, as well as to those with a broader interest in studying gender in different contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Transgenderism.

About the Author

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Ryan J. Watson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Connecticut, USA. He studies the health and well-being of sexual and gender minority youth. Jaimie F. Veale is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She specializes in the health, human rights, and sexuality of gender diverse individuals.