Assignment on Transgender Community

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Transgender community are more likely to experience homelessness and family
rejection is generally considered as one of the most common factors contributing to their
homelessness. It has been found in a study of United States, one in five transgender
individuals have experienced homelessness in their lives. Multiple studies have indicated that
the transgender people are at high risk of homelessness due to the conflict with their family
about their identity as transgender (Gurung, et al., 2018). In some cases, it has also been
found by the researchers that transgender people leave their house due to different types of
physical abuse or conflict about their sexual orientation (Kattari & Begun, 2017).
Unfortunately, the social services as well as the homeless shelters often fail to appropriately
or culturally serve the transgender homeless people and as a consequence these people suffer
from trauma. In a study, it has been revealed by the researchers that developing mental health
condition is nearly 13% higher among the transgender people due to their sexual identity
crisis (Alessi & Martin, 2017). According to the National Institute of Health, 41%
transgender people reported to attempt suicide and 78% reported harassment for transgender
identity (Gurung, et al., 2018). With the extreme prevalence of mental health issues, it has
been found that a high proportion of transgender people are seeking mental health therapy for
trauma due to abuse and homelessness. In this paper, different kinds of factors that results in
homelessness among the transgender people will be identified using a theoretical framework
and the hypothesis in this regard will also be addressed. Psychologists also find clinical issues
with the transgender people which causes serious mental health concerns and most of the
issues arise due to the homelessness of the transgender people. Minority stress theory has
provided a theoretical framework to understand the mental health disparities among the
transgender people due to various socio-cultural factors (Frost, Lehavot & Meyer, 2015). The
framework argues that transgender people experience some chronic stressors that are highly
associated with their stigmatized identities, victimization, and homelessness for all these