Family Boundary Ambiguity Among Transgender Youth
Family Boundary Ambiguity Among Transgender Youth
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DOI：
10.1111/fare.12304
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发表时间：
2018-02-01
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影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
McGuire, Jenifer K.
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Catalpa, Jory M.;McGuire, Jenifer K.
ObjectiveExploring the family boundary ambiguity in the parent-child relationships of transgender youth.BackgroundTransgender youth可能会感到缺乏清晰的父母是否会接受他们真实的性别表达，继续支持他们的身体和情感，并把他们作为家庭的一员。对家庭内外的不确定性以及家庭关系是否持久是有压力的，可能会导致心理困扰，模糊的损失感和冻结的悲伤。MethodEthnographic内容分析是根据对3个国家10个地区的社区中心招募的90名跨性别青年的访谈进行的。结构歧义和身份歧义。模糊的每一个经验模糊了参与者是否仍然在家庭和人际关系连接到他们的parents.ConclusionTransgender青年积极导航复杂和模糊的亲子关系，参与者试图调和他们的需要为真实的性别表达与他们的需要为家庭的连通性和acceptance相结合。敦促政策制定者通过模糊的损失透镜考虑家庭和变性人的复原力，并促进对变性人及其家庭的临床护理采取性别平等的终身方法。
ObjectiveTo explore family boundary ambiguity in the parent-child relationships of transgender youth.BackgroundTransgender youth may perceive a lack of clarity about whether parents will accept their authentic gender expression, continue to support them physically and emotionally, and regard them as a member of the family. Uncertainty about being in or out of the family and whether family relationships endure is stressful and can lead to psychological distress, a sense of ambiguous loss, and frozen grief.MethodEthnographic content analysis was conducted based on interviews with 90 transgender youth recruited from community centers in 10 regions across 3 countries.ResultsNarratives revealed that transgender youth experienced family boundary ambiguity related to relational ambiguity, structural ambiguity, and identity ambiguity. Each experience of ambiguity obscured whether participants remained in the family and interpersonally connected to their parents.ConclusionTransgender youth actively navigated complex and ambiguous parent-child relationships whereby participants attempted to reconcile their need for authentic gender expression combined with their need for family connectedness and acceptance.ImplicationsFamily clinicians, educators, and policymakers are urged to consider family and transgender resilience through a lens of ambiguous loss and to promote a gender-affirmative life-span approach to clinical care for transgender individuals and their families.