Transgender Adolescents - Research Study

Running Head: TRANSGENDER ADOLESCENTS
TRANSGENDER ADOLESCENTS
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TRANSGENDER ADOLESCENTS1
Discussion question 1
This research study hopes to accomplish and find more literature review about the
homeless adults who are transgender and are going through trauma. Teenagers in the United
States of America are a target of trauma and homelessness as they are coming out as a
transgender person. People with an orthodox mentality are not in favour or transgender or binary
people, which is making them unsheltered. This is mainly found in California and a few other
states, and teenagers are being kicked out of their homes because they are not able to fit the
constructed framework of the society. They are being disowned, and these adolescents do not
even know where they will find a place to sleep next. An estimation suggests that more than 40%
of the population of homeless youth in California are identified from the LGBTQ community.
National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) 2018 has counted that more than half of the
unsheltered population with the transgender traits are living in California. In San Francisco, 46%
of the unsheltered adolescents tend to be LGBTQ and around a quarter of them are identified as
non-binary and transgender (Auerswald, Lin & Parriott, 2016). The issue with these transgender
youth is that they do not feel safe because of the people around them after they accept their
identity, which makes them run or flee to another state or county. They tend to avoid the shelter
system after they run away, and that makes them vulnerable to harmful habits and substance
abuse leading to criminal activities. These adolescents with a weak foundation and no strong
background get maltreated and sometimes sexually abused due to their vulnerability, which
increases the issues of transgender adolescents becoming homeless. These adolescents are
already coming from a poor background and mostly from different ethnicities as they are
immigrants (Fraser et al., 2019). Some of them come from foster care as they are already an
orphan and have gone through social stigmas of the society. Ones they are homeless they become