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SUBMITTER: Sevelius JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7766835 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sevelius Jae M JM Chakravarty Deepalika D Dilworth Samantha E SE Rebchook Greg G Neilands Torsten B TB
International journal of environmental research and public health 20201219 24
Social interactions where a person is addressed by their correct name and pronouns, consistent with their gender identity, are widely recognized as a basic and yet critical aspect of gender affirmation for transgender people. Informed by the Model of Gender Affirmation, we developed a self-report measure of the importance of social gender affirmation, the Transgender Women's Importance of Pronouns (TW-IP) scale, which measures gender affirmation through the usage of correct pronoun by others. Da ...[more]