Trauma In Transgender Youths

Running head: TRAUMA IN TRANSGENDER YOUTHS
TRAUMA IN TRANSGENDER YOUTHS
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Background:
The LGBT is the umbrella term for the community, which includes lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender population. Homelessness is a common phenomenon in this
community and becomes worse when associated with poor mental health. The service access
and accommodation access are often problematic and dangerous for the transgender and
sexually minor community. The LGBT community experience social stigma, discrimination,
and systemic barrier. The individuals of the community, especially the transgender
population, face homelessness due to this. The community fails to avail services that can
improve their condition due to the systemic barrier and in fear of rejection or harassment. It
takes a few more steps for the transgender youths to break the social barrier for achieving a
particular goal than the counterpart of their heterosexual individual (Shelton., 2015).
Discrimination is the primary cause of poor mental health in transgender people, including
the lack of clinical attention and continuous discrimination includes posttraumatic disorder
(PTSD) symptoms. A study of 413 transgender individuals, with a mean age of 33 is sampled
online for a survey to investigate the history of discrimination. The report of daily faced
discrimination has a mean of 4.8 and a standard deviation of 2.4. The reported reasons for
discriminations are gender identity, expression of famine or masculine characteristic (
Keuroghlian, Shtasel, & Bassuk., 2014) ). Poor mental health refers to substance use
problem, violent victimization, suicidal tendency and a higher risk of HIV. Most of them
have a history of poor performance in academics as well as a school dropout. The number of
lesbian, bisexual, transgender and gay in the homeless population is not proportional. The
problem of homeless LGBT people is long unacknowledged until the community became the
member of broader national conversation to prevent or end the homelessness (Reisner et
al.,2016). Around 240,000 to 400,000 youth of the LGBT community faces homelessness at