Research on Co** with Stress Due to Prejudice in Transgender People: Some Neglected Aspects and New Ideas

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In Chile, as in other countries around the world, transgender people confront high levels of prejudice at an early age on a daily basis. This prejudice operates at three levels: (a) structural level, (b) interpersonal level, and (c) individual level. The extreme expression of prejudice is hate crime against transgender people, events widely reported in the literature. Additionally, the exposure to prejudice against transgender people has been proved to be associated with an important decline of their physical and mental health, greater than the one reported by general population or sexual minorities like lesbian, gay men, and bisexual (LGB), including depression, anxiety, suicide, substance abuse, and HIV, among other conditions. According to Minority Stress Model (MSM), stress resulting from prejudice is related to worse mental health indicators. MSM also indicates that the way transgender people try to cope or face this stress moderates the link between stress and deteriorated mental health, specifically while an efficient response to stress would weaken this relationship, an inefficient response would keep or increase it. Transgender people are not merely passive receivers of prejudice; on the contrary, they use specific co** strategies (CS) to resist this prejudice and fight its consequences, as reported in the literature. CS is understood as the particular ways in which transgender persons respond to stress resulting from prejudice. Hence, given the relevant moderating role of the CS and their results for health, this chapter mainly describes some aspects that have not been sufficiently addressed by CS research on trans people, along with putting forward some ideas for future studies. Also, the need for a reexamination of the co** notion, particularly concerning trans people, is discussed.

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This chapter was funded by the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID) of Chile, through project FONDECYT 1210139 entitled “¿Cómo afrontan las personas transgénero el prejuicio sexual? Un estudio psicosocial cualitativo en Chile?” [“How do transgender people cope with sexual prejudice? A qualitative psychosocial study in Chile?”].

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Barrientos, J. et al. (2023). Research on Co** with Stress Due to Prejudice in Transgender People: Some Neglected Aspects and New Ideas. In: Chaparro, R.A., Abreu, R.L. (eds) LGBTQ+ Affirmative Psychological Interventions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30644-0_6

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