Non-binary Research Articles

Understanding Their Experiences: Psychosocial Functioning of Nonbinary and Binary Youth at the Time of Hormone Readiness Assessment.

Purpose: The unique psychosocial experiences of nonbinary individuals across the lifespan are understudied compared with those of binary transgender individuals. This study examined the psychosocial stressors faced by nonbinary youth compared with their binary transgender counterparts at the time of gender-affirming hormone (GAH) readiness assessment. Methods: This study compared the psychosocial functioning of nonbinary youth with their binary transgender peers, ages 14-18, utilizing the Youth Self Report (YSR) at the time of GAH readiness assessment. Clinically relevant subscale scores of the YSR were analyzed. Results: Data from 479 binary and 55 nonbinary individuals were analyzed for this study. Analysis found that nonbinary youth reported substantially more psychosocial distress in the form of total problems (β = 2.86, 95% confidence interval [CI] [0.15-5.56]), internalizing problems (β = 4.57, 95% CI [1.55-7.59]), depression (β = 4.52, 95% CI [1.70-7.33]), and self-harm (odds ratio 2.65, 95% CI [1.26-5.56]) than their binary transgender peers. Conclusion: Nonbinary youth experienced higher psychosocial distress compared with their binary transgender counterparts. Future research is needed to better understand the possible health disparities experienced by nonbinary people across their lifespan so that their psychosocial needs can be better met.

Funding Opportunities Designed to Promote Antiracist Change Across a Health Sciences University

As health professionals acknowledge the historic and current influences racism has on patient care and health outcomes, leaders must develop antiracist activities to disrupt current narratives. To examine the outcomes of antiracism funding opportunities for development, implementation, and evaluation of initiatives across a multi-health professions academic university. This mixed-methods cohort study involved the evaluation of 17 antiracism projects conducted at a midsize single academic university in the Pacific Northwest with schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health. Projects were designed by students, faculty, staff, and community members, many of whom were from diverse backgrounds. Data collection and analyses were conducted between January and December 2022. Influence and reach of institutionally funded antiracist projects and best practices for funding them. Key metrics included project types, allocation of funds, level of community engagement, number of individuals engaged, demographic characteristics of project leaders, and project facilitators and barriers. Forty-two proposals were submitted, and 17 were selected for funding, representing 3 of 5 health profession schools. Study teams included women (15 of 19 [79%]), gender queer (1 [5%]), Asian American (5 [26%]), Black or African American (2 [11%]), Hispanic or Latinx (1 [5%]), Middle Eastern, North African, or biracial (4 [21%]) and White (7 [37%]) individuals. Four of 17 teams (24%) returned funds because their proposed projects exceeded their workload. Eight projects (47%) were fully implemented, most in the School of Medicine. Community engagement surveys were completed by 10 projects (59%), and 1741 participants engaged in 1 or more funded events. Two focus groups were attended by 7 of 17 projects (41%), which reflected diversity among grantees. Participants noted that facilitators of antiracist activities included strong community engagement, improved well-being, and sense of support by both the community and the institution. Barriers to advancing antiracist initiatives included restrictive timelines, being unprepared for the time needed for their efforts, distrust from community members due to previous experiences with diversity and inclusion projects, and difficulties navigating complex institutional systems and processes. The findings of this study suggest that efforts needed to implement antiracist change should not be underestimated. Engagement should be inclusive across academic health centers and communities. Future efforts need to support innovator full-time equivalent support, individual mentorship, and institutional sponsorship.

Making intersex and non-binary people count? Ambivalent in_visibilities in the German microcensus

ABSTRACT This article discusses the recent introduction of ‘diverse’ and ‘no entry’ along ‘male’ and ‘female’ as gender categories in the German microcensus. It describes how intersex and non-binary survey participants are simultaneously made visible and invisible through different systems of gender classification and assignment. The article combines the analysis of documents by the Federal Statistical Office with expert interviews with activists and researchers working on legal and statistical gender identification from a non-binary and intersex perspective. Although two non-binary gender categories are included on paper at the point of data collection, they are subsequently randomly assigned ‘male’ or ‘female’ in data publication. Interviewed experts critically contextualize the survey practices of the microcensus and point to some of the problems with this approach. However, they also stress the non-linear connection between recognition and visibility and agree with data protection concerns related to super-visibility. Their criticism points towards several ways of rethinking gender classification and assignment in population surveys. This article contributes to discussions about the contested inclusion of subjects with marginalized gendered experiences into the population through legal and statistical technologies. Using the framework of in_visibility, it also points to the potentials and limitations of a politics of visibility.

Learning to swim in Finland: practices and experiences

Aquatic skills have been defined as important life-saving skills in Finland, because of it’s thousands of lakes. Finnish national core curriculum includes objectives for pupils’ swimming skills and, therefore national survey is implemented regularly. The latest survey implemented in spring 2022 to measure 6th graders (n = 1798) and preschoolers (n = 222) perception of their swimming skills. The results revealed decline in 6th graders’ skills. There were approximately 55% of 6th graders reporting to be able to swim 200 m, including 50 m swimming on the back. Moreover, the survey revealed gender differences showing that 60% of boys, 51% of girls and 40% of non-binary genders achieved the 200 m criteria. These gender differences have not found earlier. In 2022 survey included preschoolers (6 yrs) first time. The results showed that preschoolers have positive attitude towards water, and they perceive their aquatic competence positively. This starting point should be utilized in swimming lessons by including swimming already as part of preschool curriculum. The Covid pandemic reduced the amount of swimming lessons. Therefore, it can be assumed that a new generation of pupils with poor swimming skills is now growing. There is need to ensure water safety by compensating the lack of swimming skills. Practically it could mean starting annual swimming lessons from preschool.

"It’s like a happy little affirmation circle": a grounded theory study of nonbinary peoples’ internal processes for navigating binary gender norms

Background: Nonbinary people experience marginalization through discrimination, rejection, microaggressions, and stigma as a result of not always conforming to societal gender norms embedded in the gender binary. There is limited research about how nonbinary Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) living in the United States navigate societally enforced binary gender norms, which is especially important to understand given how racism and Euro-colonization have enforced the gender binary. Better understanding the internal strategies nonbinary people use to cope, embody affirmation, and regulate emotions in response to marginalizing experiences could increase understanding of how to best prevent and address the health disparities experienced by nonbinary people. Aim: Drawing on the practices of interrogating norms central to queer theory with a sensitization to racism and settler colonialism, this study aimed to identify a framework to understand nonbinary peoples’ processes of navigating gender norms internally through their lived experiences with an awareness of how context impacts these processes. Method: This qualitative interview study utilized construcitivist grounded theory methodology, guided by queer theory. Twenty-one nonbinary individuals were interviewed over Zoom with 15 being BIPOC. Results: Participants navigated binary gender norms internally by self-defining affirmative nonbinary ways of being, noticing affirmation in a chosen community that allowed them to experience existing authentically outside of binary gender norms, and internally connecting to an embodied, authentic sense of gender within themselves and in community with other nonbinary people. These internal processes were influenced by two contextual factors: societal and cultural expectations of gender; and the contextual impacts of holding multiple marginalized identities. Discussion: Understanding the contexts of the gender binary, racism, and cissexism that impact nonbinary people on a daily basis is crucial for mental health professionals, researchers, policy makers, and creators of gender inclusive education and support programs to support and affirm nonbinary people.

SAT417 Comparison Of Mental Health Status In Transgender And Gender Diverse Versus Cisgender People

Abstract Disclosure: C.C. Pedreira: None. S. Tchir-Bourgeois: None. S. Tuli: None. A. Giancola: None. A.P. Lopez Lopez: None. A.S. Keuroghlian: None. M. Misra: None. J.M. Andreano: None. Background: In the last decade, there has been an increase in the number and visibility of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people seeking support and health care. These individuals are at a substantially increased risk for depression, anxiety and suicide relative to cisgender people. Some estimates suggest a lifetime prevalence of suicide approaching 40%, a rate ten times that of the general population. Nonbinary people appear to experience stressors that are both similar to and unique from those experienced by transgender (TG) men and women. Objective: To assess and compare the mental health status of TGD (before starting gender affirming hormone therapy) versus cisgender people. Methods: We collected cross-sectional data from 14 TGD (8 TG binary and 6 nonbinary) and 11 cisgender subjects before starting gender affirming hormone therapy. Subjects completed a series of self-reported inventories designed to assess depressive symptoms (Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Inventory), anxiety (State/Trait Anxiety Inventory), traumatic experiences (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder symptom self-report version), response to depressive mood (Ruminative Response Scale) feelings and emotions (Positive and Negative Affect Schedule), and personality (NEO Personality inventory). Results: Mean [SD] age was 25.8 [6.0], 27.6 [4.7] and 26.5 [4.3) years for TG binary, nonbinary and cisgender groups respectively. Mean [SD] age of gender dysphoria was 14.5 [4.9] and 14.5 [8.9] years for TG binary and nonbinary groups respectively. Compared with the cisgender group, the nonbinary group had higher scores for negative feelings and emotions [29.50 (19.25, 31.25) vs. 13.00 (10.00, 19.00), (p=0.005)], rumination [55.33 ± 4.72 vs. 41.36. ± 3.45 (p=0.03)], depression [15.83. ± 1.62 vs. 8.73 ± 1.20 (p=0.005)], anxiety [47.67 ± 3.72 vs. 34.82. ± 2.97 (p=0.02)], and neuroticism [41.83 ± 2.82 vs. 30.46. ± 2.57 (p=0.01)]. Traumatic experiences did not differ between the two groups. Compared to the TG binary group, the nonbinary group had higher scores for negative feelings and emotions [26.50 ± 2.59 vs. 17.13 ± 1.68 (p=0.01)] and depression [15.83. ± 1.62 vs. 9.50 ± 1.63 (p=0.02)]. Levels of anxiety, rumination, traumatic experiences and neuroticism did not differ between these groups. Conclusion: These results direct attention to the increased levels of negative feelings and emotions as well as depression in the nonbinary group compared to TG binary and cisgender groups. The data highlight the critical need for intervention approaches to mitigate these risks in nonbinary individuals. Presentation: Saturday, June 17, 2023

SAT351 Utilization of Emergency Services by Transgender People in the United States, 2006-2018

Abstract Disclosure: D. Stroumsa: None. E.E. Marsh: None. P.N. Pfeiffer: None. C. Jiang: None. A. Vrolijk: None. M.B. Moravek: None. Bridging the Gap: Utilization of Emergency Services by Transgender People in the United States, 2006-2018Introduction: Transgender or nonbinary (Trans) people face significant health disparities, including in access to primary and preventive care. These disparities are driven by structural, interpersonal, and individual stigma, which lead to barriers accessing care and avoidance of primary care, and to increased reliance on emergency care. We aimed to characterize ED use by Trans patients, and changes in such use over time. Methods: Data was obtained from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) , which is a weighted stratified sample of hospital-based ED visits. Using gender-dysphoria related ICD-9 and ICD-10 diagnostic codes, we compared visits among trans people to those without such a diagnosis, adjusting for age, region, urbanicity, primary payer, and income quartile. We evaluated rates of chronic condition and mental health conditions as primary diagnosis at presentation and at admission. Presence of chronic conditions was assessed using the ICD-9 Chronic Condition Indicator for 2006-2014. Results: There was a rapid temporal increase in the proportion of visits with a trans-related diagnosis, from 0.001% of visits in 2006 to 0.016% in 2018. There were significant demographic differences between trans people and others. Trans people were significantly more likely to be admitted, adjusting for payment, age group, region, income and mental health condition (overall 52.4% vs. 17.3%, adjusted OR= 7.368 95% CI (6.771, 8.017)). A large proportion of ED visits by trans individuals was associated with a mental health diagnosis (28.7%, compared with 3.9% for others, p<0.001; adjusted OR =2.01, 95% CI 1.91-2.11) and/or with a chronic condition (58.2% vs. 19.2%, p<0.001; adjusted OR =3.65, 95% CI 3.61-3.69). Similarly, hospital admission among trans people was much more likely to be linked to a mental health condition (37.2% vs. 5.3% , p<0.001; adjusted OR = 2.78, 95% CI 2.44-3.16) or chronic condition (67.3% vs 41.3%, p<0.001; adjusted OR = 2.21, 95% CI 1.78-2.75) Discussion: The high admission rates, and high proportion of trans people with a chronic condition or with mental illness, may represent worse overall health due lack of primary care, or a delay in seeking emergency care among Trans people. Lastly, these findings could be a manifestation of a higher likelihood of a trans-related diagnostic code being charted among trans people at admission, or bias towards higher likelihood of trans people receiving a mental-health related diagnosis. There is a need for increasing access to affirming primary and mental health care among trans people, and increased training of emergency clinicians. Presentation Date: Saturday, June 17, 2023

OR31-02 Persistence Of Gender Identity And Hormone Therapy Use In Transgender Adolescents: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Abstract Disclosure: P. Gupta: None. B.C. Patterson: None. S. Gold: None. L. Chu: None. H. Yeung: None. M. Goodman: None. V. Tangpricha: None. Introduction: Adolescents with gender dysphoria often seek feminizing or masculinizing hormone therapy to affirm their gender identity. While receipt of gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) has been associated with improved quality of life and well-being, the incidence of discontinuation of GAHT and the reasons for discontinuation are not known. The purpose of this study was to 1) assess the discontinuation rate of GAHT, and 2) explore the reasons for GAHT discontinuation. Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study approved by Emory University’s and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Institutional Review Board. Medical charts of transgender adolescents seen at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta were reviewed. Patients met the inclusion criteria if they were prescribed GAHT (estradiol or testosterone) between 01/01/2016 to 01/01/2019. We defined continuation of GAHT if the participant was still taking estradiol or testosterone as of 01/01/2019. If the participant stopped taking hormonal therapy prior to 01/01/19, they were deemed to have discontinued hormonal therapy and the reason for discontinuation was collected from the chart if documented. If the reason was not documented or if the status of hormone discontinuation was not known, the participant was contacted via telephone to ascertain whether still taking GAHT or not and to ascertain the GAHT discontinuation reason if not taking GAHT as a part of phase II of the study. Results: This study included 82 participants; 36 (43.9%) transgender girls, 45 (54.9%) transgender boys, and 1 (1.2%) non-binary adolescent. The mean age of participants was 16.7 (SD= 1.7) years and the majority were white (N= 71; 86.6 %) and non-Hispanic or Latino (N=76; 92.7%). The majority (N= 59, 72.0 %) of the participants were privately insured. The mean duration of hormonal therapy was 21.5 (SD= 15.4) months spanning over a maximum of 66 months. Only 3 participants had discontinued GAHT therapy: one participant stopped hormonal therapy due to insurance issues, one participant stopped GAHT temporarily to conceive a baby and one stopped testosterone to transition to a non-binary gender. No participant re-transitioned to the gender congruent with the sex assigned at birth. Conclusion: Discontinuation of GAHT in this group of transgender adolescents was infrequent. No participant re-transitioned to the gender congruent with the sex assigned at birth while 3 participants discontinued GAHT due to external factors. Pediatric providers should prescribe GAHT in accordance with the Endocrine Society guidelines if the adolescent needing GAHT meets the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, has parental consent, and is pubertal. Presentation: Sunday, June 18, 2023

Fostering Psychological Empowerment in Women: Exploring Transformative Group Dynamics and Empowerment-Based Interventions in Girl Up Ikhtiyar

Despite making substantial strides, contemporary societies across the globe continue to suffer from gender disparity and inequality. These issues have a significant impact on the lives of women, both in the public and private domains. To bring about sustainable change in attitudes towards women and non-binary genders, innovative solutions and transformative leadership are crucial. This research paper delves into the role of transformative group dynamics and empowerment-based interventions in promoting gender equality among women, specifically by studying the work of Girl Up Ikhtiyar (henceforth GUI), a student-led organization that aims to empower girls and young women in India through education, advocacy, and activism. The study’s findings and implications suggest that GUI can fully integrate psychological empowerment and transformative group dynamics into its programs and policies, leading it closer to gender equality.

Self-sampling monkeypox virus testing in high-risk populations, asymptomatic or with unrecognized Mpox, in Spain

The recent monkeypox virus (MPXV) outbreak was of global concern and has mainly affected gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM). Here we assess prevalence of MPXV in high-risk populations of GBMSM, trans women (TW) and non-binary people without symptoms or with unrecognized monkeypox (Mpox) symptoms, using a self-sampling strategy. Anal and pharyngeal swabs are tested by MPXV real-time PCR and positive samples are tested for cytopathic effect (CPE) in cell culture. 113 individuals participated in the study, 89 (78.76%) were cis men, 17 (15.04%) were TW. The median age was 35.0 years (IQR: 30.0–43.0), 96 (85.02%) individuals were gay or bisexual and 72 (63.72%) were migrants. Seven participants were MPXV positive (6.19% (95% CI: 1.75%–10.64%)). Five tested positive in pharyngeal swabs, one in anal swab and one in both. Six did not present symptoms recognized as MPXV infection. Three samples were positive for CPE, and showed anti-vaccinia pAb staining by FACS and confocal microscopy. This suggests that unrecognized Mpox cases can shed infectious virus. Restricting testing to individuals reporting Mpox symptoms may not be sufficient to contain outbreaks.

The Gender Self-Report: A multidimensional gender characterization tool for gender-diverse and cisgender youth and adults.

Gender identity is a core component of human experience, critical to account for in broad health, development, psychosocial research, and clinical practice. Yet, the psychometric characterization of gender has been impeded due to challenges in modeling the myriad gender self-descriptors, statistical power limitations related to multigroup analyses, and equity-related concerns regarding the accessibility of complex gender terminology. Therefore, this initiative employed an iterative multi-community-driven process to develop the Gender Self-Report (GSR), a multidimensional gender characterization tool, accessible to youth and adults, nonautistic and autistic people, and gender-diverse and cisgender individuals. In Study 1, the GSR was administered to 1,654 individuals, sampled through seven diversified recruitments to be representative across age (10-77 years), gender and sexuality diversity (∼33% each gender diverse, cisgender sexual minority, cisgender heterosexual), and autism status (> 33% autistic). A random half-split subsample was subjected to exploratory factor analytics, followed by confirmatory analytics in the full sample. Two stable factors emerged: Nonbinary Gender Diversity and Female-Male Continuum (FMC). FMC was transformed to Binary Gender Diversity based on designated sex at birth to reduce collinearity with designated sex at birth. Differential item functioning by age and autism status was employed to reduce item-response bias. Factors were internally reliable. Study 2 demonstrated the construct, convergent, and ecological validity of GSR factors. Of the 30 hypothesized validation comparisons, 26 were confirmed. The GSR provides a community-developed gender advocacy tool with 30 self-report items that avoid complex gender-related "insider" language and characterize diverse populations across continuous multidimensional binary and nonbinary gender traits. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Genetic/Familial High-Risk Assessment: Breast, Ovarian, and Pancreatic, Version 2.2024.

The NCCN Guidelines for Genetic/Familial High-Risk Assessment: Breast, Ovarian, and Pancreatic focus primarily on assessment of pathogenic/likely pathogenic (P/LP) variants associated with increased risk of breast, ovarian, pancreatic, and prostate cancer, including BRCA1, BRCA2, CDH1, PALB2, PTEN, and TP53, and recommended approaches to genetic counseling/testing and care strategies in individuals with these P/LP variants. These NCCN Guidelines Insights summarize important updates regarding: (1) a new section for transgender, nonbinary and gender diverse people who have a hereditary predisposition to cancer focused on risk reduction strategies for ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, prostate cancer, and breast cancer; and (2) testing criteria and management associated with TP53 P/LP variants and Li-Fraumeni syndrome.

Digital literary readings for the promotion of gender and affective-sexual diversity: Predictors of its didactic recommendation in secondary education

This study analyses the frequencies of inclusion of digital literary-educational proposals on the diversification of sex/gender/sexuality expectations by in-service Spanish teachers of secondary education (<i>n</i>=436), and the predictors that determine this inclusion. Based on the application of the instrument <i>Digital Literary Education and the Construction of Gender Identities</i> (DLECGI), the study is developed in non-experimental designs of a cross-sectional nature, and at the relational, explanatory and predictive levels of research, insofar as it seeks to reveal the socio-demographic, formative and didactic causes of the phenomenon or event of interest, and its degree of occurrence. The results obtained indicate the existence of a profile of teachers who promote the recommendation of this type of digital reading based on their belonging to non-binary gender groups with previous training in co-education and equality, and with explicit didactic stances on controversial issues. Likewise, the relationship between socio-demographic variables and the didactic positioning of teachers on the recommendation of digital readings on affective-sexual diversity shows that initial and/or ongoing specific training in co-education and equality is a key predictor of this relationship. These findings attest to the fact that the visibility and recognition of identity plurality in literary education necessarily involves the proposal of counter-hegemonic models regarding gender and affective-sexual identity. In this regard, teacher training must continue to progress towards the adoption of inclusive didactic approaches within the framework of educational principles for democratic citizenship, regardless of the gender or personal and social identity that defines these teachers.

Differentiating sex and gender in health research to achieve gender equity.

Effectively tracking progress on initiatives focused on gender equity requires clear differentiation between the terms sex and gender. Sex usually refers to a person's biological characteristics, whereas gender refers to socially constructed roles and norms. Although both terms are often treated as binaries, gender is a spectrum and sex may include intersex individuals. While the terms are interrelated, they are sometimes conflated or used interchangeably in health data. Their fundamental distinctions, however, have implications for the conduct of research and the design of interventions targeting sex- and gender-based health disparities. We use the example of coronavirus disease 2019 to show how conflating these terms in data collection makes it difficult to ascertain whether disparities in infection rates, morbidity and mortality are determined by sex or gender. Although the exact process of collecting data on sex and gender may need to be adapted for specific contexts, there are steps that can be taken so that health data better reflect the differences between these concepts. Possible actions include using a two-step data collection process to determine both sex and gender of individuals, and encouraging recognition of intersex, third gender, transgender and gender nonbinary people. There also needs to be acceptance and commitment by data collectors and research editors; for example, by using tools such as the Sex and Gender Equity in Research checklist. With clearer distinctions between these foundational terms and how they are used in health data, we can achieve more accurate research findings, better-tailored interventions and better progress towards gender equity.

버지니아 울프의 『올랜도』와 얀 마텔의 『셀프』에 나타난 젠더 허물기 정치학

This paper examines intertextuality between Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Yann Martel’s Self, focusing on the way in which each text grapples with undoing gender essentialism. Despite being set in different times and spaces, both novels demonstrate common threads: the protagonist challenges binary gender norms and heteronormativity; their gender is unintentionally transformed. In this regard, Martel’s novel should be understood as a successor to Woolf’s Orlando, as it is advertised as “A Modern-Day Orlando” by the publisher. Strangely enough, however, both texts have rarely been examined together. Thus, I argue that Orlando and Self resonate with one another as they explore gender and sexual fluidity through their main characters while simultaneously problematizing fixed categories of sex, gender, and sexuality, along with language derived from binary and heterosexual assumptions. Woolf and Martel experiment and break down rigid distinctions of gender, language, and even literary genres by blending biographical or autobiographical forms with other literary styles in their respective novels. Gender nonconformity practiced by the two characters illustrates that gender is performativity and one’s self is constantly negotiated through interactions with others. Hence, this paper interrogates how Woolf and Martel envision gender non-conforming subjects’ livable lives to demonstrate the politics of queer life.

Reshaping gendered norms in entrepreneurship: Incorporating gender identity and entrepreneurial practice

AbstractThis paper presents a practice theoretical conception of gender in entrepreneurship, emphasizing the potential of reflexivity and collective agency to reshape gendered norms. While the literature recognizes the fluidity of gender and its intersectional nature, it often overlooks how social phenomena are produced and relate to each other. The main aim of this is to show, not just how, gendered norms of entrepreneurial practice inhibit practice (which has been extensively covered) but how identity and the individualized practice of entrepreneurship, can shift gendered norms of entrepreneurial practice. Drawing upon the theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Margaret Archer, this paper proposes a more integrative approach to identity and gendered norms, embedded within a social realist approach. The author highlights the need for structural renegotiation in entrepreneurship through reflexivity. Given how norms self‐naturalize, individual practice of diverse gendered practices in entrepreneurship is not enough to create long‐term sustainable change and support for diverse gendered practices. Instead, this paper proposes an integrative approach to identity and gendered norms, emphasizing the potential of individuals to shift structural norms, through collective action. This study suggests that a more balanced understanding of the interplay between context and identity can assist in the design of support for non‐traditional gendered practices and provide new insights into how gendered norms impact entrepreneurial activity.

Subtitle Translation of Gender Queer in English Films

Subtitle Translation of Gender Queer in English Films

Особенности личности осужденного с небинарной гендерной идентичностью и проблемы безопасности его пребывания в пенитенциарных учреждениях

The article examines the features of philosophical concepts in the field of androgyny as a stage of its genesis and androgynous discourse, as well as the current state of the problems of the institution of non-binary gender identity of a convicted person. The authors revealed the importance of biological sex for serving a sentence of imprisonment in Russia, reflected the legal problems of ensuring the personal safety of persons with the specified identity in the institutions of the penal system executing a sentence of imprisonment. At the present stage, there is a traditional contradiction between the need to respect the rights and freedoms of every person, to overcome the obvious social exclusion to persons with non-binary gender identity who have officially changed their gender identity (transgender), and the legal regulation of the legal aspects of serving sentences, ensuring personal safety in penitentiary institutions. In order to ensure the personal safety of persons with non-binary gender identity who have undergone a medical procedure of sexual reorientation, and the election of a penitentiary institution to serve a sentence of imprisonment on the appropriate gender basis, it is necessary to adopt legislative acts regulating relations in the field of serving sentences and ensuring the personal safety of these persons.

Coping Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Sexual and Gender Identity

ABSTRACT National polls have shown that COVID-19 has been highly stressful, negatively affecting well-being and life satisfaction overall, but few studies have focused on individuals with sexual and gender diverse identities. Pandemic-related stress may increase engagement in adverse or negative health-related coping behaviors and decrease engagement in positive coping strategies, potentially exacerbating existing LGBTQ+ health disparities. Relying on a nationally representative population-based sample, we examine disparities in rates of negative and positive COVID-19 coping behaviors by sexual and gender identities. Using Poisson regression models adjusted for key sociodemographic and pandemic related factors, we found higher rates of negative and positive coping behaviors among certain sexual and gender diverse groups compared to their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts. Specifically, we find that lesbian and gay respondents reported more positive and negative coping strategies compared to heterosexual persons. We also found higher rates of negative coping behaviors among plurisexual (bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual) and noncisgender adults (transgender or other nonbinary gender identity) compared to heterosexual and cisgender adults, respectively. We contribute to prior studies by focusing on both negative and positive pandemic related coping among sexually and gender diverse populations. These responses to the pandemic may have long-term implications for the health and well-being of sexual and gender diverse individuals.

Reynaldo Gianecchini na revista GQ: um homem feminino que não fere o seu lado masculino

Ahead of his time, Pepeu Gomes sang about the complexity of gender in the 1980s, and in one of his songs, he claimed that being a feminine man causes no harm to his inner masculine side. Interested in this condition of masculinity, we will seek in this work to bring an analysis of Gentlemen's Quarterly (GQ) magazine and its edition with the actor Reynaldo Gianecchini. We want to understand how GQ builds a narrative link about the life of the celebrity and explores its possible gender fluidity, but which nevertheless reinforces the fundamental ideals of virility. In view of this, and from a Foucauldian methodological perspective on the discourses, we will observe the magazine's narratives that build values that end up reinforcing the importance of saying that it is male.