TY - JOUR
T1 - “We’ve Been Here All Along:” The Collective Resilience of Transgender and Gender Diverse U.S. Service Members
AU - Eleazer, Jacob R.
AU - Marchant, Landon
AU - Kizewski, Amber
AU - Gross, Georgina
AU - Warren, Allison
AU - McCubbin, Laurie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 American Psychological Association
PY - 2022/11/10
Y1 - 2022/11/10
N2 - Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people in the United States face high rates of minority stressors, such as social rejection, homelessness, discrimination, and identity-based violence (James et al., 2016). Transgender and gender diverse service members are also exposed to unique military-specific stressors such as discriminatory military policies, combat stress, and military sexual trauma (Tucker et al., 2019). However, little is known about TGD troops’ experiences of resilience when navigating stress and trauma exposure during their military service. A transaffirmative participatory research design and interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) analytic method were used to explore how troops made sense of their experiences of oppression and resilience. Researchers interviewed TGD service members (N = 40) about their gender identity and military service. Superordinate themes included: (a) understanding oppression; (b) survival strategies; (c) individual stress and resilience factors; and (d) collective resilience factors. Results suggest that both intrasubjective and intersubjective factors impacted how TGD troops made sense of their experiences of oppression and resilience.
AB - Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people in the United States face high rates of minority stressors, such as social rejection, homelessness, discrimination, and identity-based violence (James et al., 2016). Transgender and gender diverse service members are also exposed to unique military-specific stressors such as discriminatory military policies, combat stress, and military sexual trauma (Tucker et al., 2019). However, little is known about TGD troops’ experiences of resilience when navigating stress and trauma exposure during their military service. A transaffirmative participatory research design and interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) analytic method were used to explore how troops made sense of their experiences of oppression and resilience. Researchers interviewed TGD service members (N = 40) about their gender identity and military service. Superordinate themes included: (a) understanding oppression; (b) survival strategies; (c) individual stress and resilience factors; and (d) collective resilience factors. Results suggest that both intrasubjective and intersubjective factors impacted how TGD troops made sense of their experiences of oppression and resilience.
KW - collective resilience
KW - military
KW - minority stress
KW - oppression
KW - transgender
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U2 - 10.1037/ser0000721
DO - 10.1037/ser0000721
M3 - Article
C2 - 36355662
AN - SCOPUS:85147215097
SN - 1541-1559
VL - 20
SP - 382
EP - 396
JO - Psychological Services
JF - Psychological Services
IS - 2
ER -