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Factors Associated With Engagement in Social Activism Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents
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Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth are engaged in social activism within their schools and communities, which has shown to have both positive and negative implications, but there is limited understanding of factors that motivate or deter engagement among youth samples. The current study examines factors related to TGD youth engagement in social activism. The sample includes 698 TGD students who completed a school survey in an urban county in the Midwestern United States in 2021. Exhaustive chi-square automatic interaction detection tested all combinations of social identities (i.e., gender, sexual, and racial/ethnic identities), activism beliefs, feelings of hopelessness, and experiences of bias-based bullying (i.e., for sexual/gender identity or political affiliation) to predict mutually exclusive groups of youth based on their engagement or desire to engage in social activism. In the sample, 36.1% were engaged in social activism. Engaged youth were characterized by having positive activism beliefs and experiencing bias-based bullying. Nonengaged youth who were interested in being engaged (64.0%) were characterized by having positive activism beliefs and experiencing feelings of hopelessness. The findings suggest social activism may serve as a way for TGD youth to fulfill their sense of responsibility to be activists for their community, motivated by their own experiences of stigma but also suggests there may be negative implications for mental well-being. Mental health providers working with TGD youth activists should consider strategies to facilitate engagement in ways that help TGD youth feel integral to social movements and also protect against bias-based victimization and feelings of hopelessness.
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social activism
advocacy
transgender and gender diverse
youth
bias-based bullying
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