Implementing Structured Interventions for Vulnerable Populations With HIV – Focus on Adolescent MSM and Transgender Youth of Color

Abstract This article explores the life history of Sam, a queer and transgender youth of color who contests standardized futures in secondary schools. Sam's school life is rife with expectations that seek to confine Sam and their way of being in the world. In response to their school life, Sam forwards new ways of thinking of the future that rely on remaining present, contesting identity politics and questioning the contours of humanity.

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Sexuality Education and Desire: Still Missing after All These Years

Harvard Educational Review ◽

10.17763/haer.76.3.w5042g23122n6703 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 76 (3) ◽

pp. 297-338 ◽

Cited By ~ 301

Author(s):

MICHELLE FINE ◽

SARA McCLELLAND

Keyword(s):

Public Schools ◽

Young People ◽

Young Women ◽

Sexuality Education ◽

Adolescent Females ◽

Youth Of Color ◽

National Policies ◽

Transgender Youth ◽

Research Guidelines ◽

Abstinence Only

Nearly twenty years after the publication of Michelle Fine's essay "Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire," the question of how sexuality education influences the development and health of adolescents remains just as relevant as it was in 1988. In this article, Michelle Fine and Sara McClelland examine the federal promotion of curricula advocating abstinence only until marriage in public schools and, in particular, how these policies constrict the development of "thick desire" in young women. Their findings highlight the fact that national policies have an uneven impact on young people and disproportionately place the burden on girls, youth of color, teens with disabilities, and lesbian/gay/bisexual/ transgender youth. With these findings in mind, the authors provide a set of research guidelines to encourage researchers, policymakers, and advocates as they collect data on, develop curricula for, and change the contexts in which young people are educated about sexuality and health.

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Homeless Gay and Transgender Youth of Color in San Francisco: “No One Likes Street Kids”—Even in the Castro

Journal of LGBT Youth ◽

10.1080/19361650903013519 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 6 (2-3) ◽

pp. 223-242 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

Jen Reck

Keyword(s):

San Francisco ◽

Youth Of Color ◽

Street Kids ◽

Transgender Youth

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Understanding Intersectionality and Resiliency among Transgender Adolescents: Exploring Pathways among Peer Victimization, School Belonging, and Drug Use

10.20944/preprints201804.0329.v1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Tyler Hatchel ◽

Robert Marx

Keyword(s):

Drug Use ◽

Peer Victimization ◽

Low Socioeconomic Status ◽

Structural Equation ◽

School Belonging ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Youth Of Color ◽

Color Experience ◽

Transgender Youth ◽

Using Data

Transgender youth experience elevated levels of victimization and may therefore report greater drug use than their cisgender peers, yet little is known about protective factors like school belonging that may mediate this relationship. Further, scant research has explored the experiences of youth at the intersection of transgender identity and youth of color status or low socioeconomic status, especially with respect to these multiple minority statuses’ associations with peer victimization, drug use, and school belonging. Using data from the California Healthy Kids Survey, the current study employs structural equation modeling to explore the relationships among school belonging, peer victimization, and drug use for transgender youth. Findings indicate that school belonging does mediate the pathway between peer victimization and drug use for transgender youth and that although youth of color experience greater victimization, they do not engage in greater drug use than their white transgender peers. Based on these results, those concerned with the healthy futures of transgender youth should advocate for more open and affirming school climates that engender a sense of belonging and treat transgender youth with dignity and fairness.

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