Sexuality Interventions for People with Intellectual Disability

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Sexuality interventions of and for people with intellectual disability
TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS AND SEXUAL HEALTH FINDINGS FROM A SWEDISH
INTERVIEW STUDY
Malin LINDROTH
School of Health and Welfare, University of Jonkoping, Sweden
Introduction and purpose:
Transgender individuals face discrimination and unfairness all across the world. The
main focus of transgender individuals is on various aspects of sexual function and gender
confirmatory care. There are different studies on holistic sexual health through the use of a
qualitative approach. As a result, a study for enlightening how transgender individuals express
their sexual health was carried out.
Method and population sample
There were twenty individuals of different ages (18 years to 75 years), social situations, and life
phases were involved. Most of them were known as transgender (n1/45). The individual
interviews were carried out within an evocative plan (Lindroth, 2017, p.270). On average, the
interview lasted for one and a half hours. The interview analysis was made a success by using
Grounded theory.
Findings and discussions;
The relations, feelings and bodies are evenly vital in the holistic skill of sexual health.
The interpretation of sexual health is known to be an unbroken process towards one’s well-being.
Respect, on the other hand, emerges to be centred in this process. The description of gender
confirmatory care when required is known to be very important. The experiences of meeting
professionals of health care can be deficient in basic sexological knowledge and transgender;

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additionally, it possesses double-gender, cis- and heteronormative expectations, are frequent. The
sexual health care aces following gender confirmatory care and is described as both absent and
wanted.
Recommendations:
Discrimination and prejudice are barriers to sexual health experience among the
transgender people. This people encounter with lack of knowledge as well as double-gender,
heteromotive and cis- prospection in their daily life, but also amid gender confirmatory share or
other sexual health care settings. The knowledge increment generally among professionals of
health care in addition to the society at large, is crucial for the provision of person-centred care
and also to reinforce sexual health in this diverse group. It is supreme that this essential
information is not acquired from transgender individuals when they are in the midst of the
system of health care.
“YOUTH TRANSGENDERS AND THEIR SEXUAL EXPERIENCES FROM GROUPS OF
EMPOWERMENT Anders ROYNEBERG Sex og samfunn, Norway Trude SLETTVOLL LIEN
Sexology, Sex og sanfunn, Oslo, Norway”
Introduction:
Many are the times when we come into contact with many young people at sex og
samfunn who have issues with the identity of their gender. It is because of this needs presented to
us that formed the basis of our intervention. Many are the times that we often hear about the
story; this involves getting in touch with the health practitioners who don't have the
understanding regarding transgender and the complicatedness in communicating with health
experts concerning sexuality and sex.