TY - JOUR
T1 - Transgender friendship experiences
T2 - Benefits and barriers of friendships across gender identity and sexual orientation
AU - Galupo, M. Paz
AU - Bauerband, L. Andrew
AU - Gonzalez, Kirsten A.
AU - Hagen, D. Brienne
AU - Hether, Shandelle D.
AU - Krum, Tiana E.
PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - The present research explores benefits and barriers of friendships for transgender individuals. Participants included 536 individuals who self-identified as transgender or gender variant. Participants completed an online survey asking about friendship experiences with transgender, cisgender, sexual minority, and heterosexual friends. Using a feminist intersectional theoretical framework, content analysis attended to the benefits and barriers to friendship and highlighted patterns of responses by allowing for comparisons across friends' gender identity and sexual orientation. Unique friendship barriers and benefits were found across normative (cisgender/heterosexual) and non-normative (transgender/sexual minority) dimensions of identities. In addition, friendship experiences with transgender and sexual minority friends displayed unique similarities and differences. In our analyses we emphasize the usefulness of a feminist intersectional approach in investigating transgender friendship experience.
AB - The present research explores benefits and barriers of friendships for transgender individuals. Participants included 536 individuals who self-identified as transgender or gender variant. Participants completed an online survey asking about friendship experiences with transgender, cisgender, sexual minority, and heterosexual friends. Using a feminist intersectional theoretical framework, content analysis attended to the benefits and barriers to friendship and highlighted patterns of responses by allowing for comparisons across friends' gender identity and sexual orientation. Unique friendship barriers and benefits were found across normative (cisgender/heterosexual) and non-normative (transgender/sexual minority) dimensions of identities. In addition, friendship experiences with transgender and sexual minority friends displayed unique similarities and differences. In our analyses we emphasize the usefulness of a feminist intersectional approach in investigating transgender friendship experience.
KW - Cisgender
KW - friendship
KW - gender identity
KW - heterosexual
KW - intersectional theory
KW - normative
KW - sexual minority
KW - sexual orientation
KW - transgender
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84899739257
U2 - 10.1177/0959353514526218
DO - 10.1177/0959353514526218
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84899739257
SN - 0959-3535
VL - 24
SP - 193
EP - 215
JO - Feminism and Psychology
JF - Feminism and Psychology
IS - 2
ER -