Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer or qutng (LGBTQ) youth experience trma at higher rat than their straight peers.
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PREVALENCE OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABE AMONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE: A META-ANALYSIS
* gay childhood trauma *
Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer or qutng (LGBTQ) youth experience trma at higher rat than their straight peers. ACEs; Abe; Adverse childhood experienc; Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer youth; Gay; Lbian; Mory strs; Pansexual; Trma. The procs of velopg a muny-based rearch agenda wh lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer youth the Northwt Terrori, Canada.
Transnal Age Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Qutng Youth: Issu of Diversy, Integrated Inti, and Mental Health.
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and Other Morized Genr and Sexual Inti-Adapted Telehealth Intensive Outpatient Program for Youth and Young Adults: Subgroup Analysis of Acuy and Improvement Followg Treatment. Keywords: Sexual Behavr, Child Abe, Homosexualy, Instmental Variable Mols, Sexual OrientatnINTRODUCTIONEpimlogil studi fd a posive associatn between childhood maltreatment and same-sex sexualy adulthood, wh lbians and gay men reportg 1. Four pathways have been hypothized: (1) maltreatment may e loss of self-worth and create a stigmatized inty victims; therefore, maltreated persons wh same-sex preferenc may be more willg to adopt another stigmatized inty, namely mory sexual orientatn (Saewyc et al., 2006);(2) sexual abe, perpetrated primarily by men, boys to believe they are homosexual (Gartner, 1999); (3) sexual abe of girls by male perpetrators victims to be aversive to sexual relatnships wh men (Marvasti & Dripchak, 2004); and (4) sexual abe of boys by men “teach” homosexualy (Cameron & Cameron, 1995, 1996) (see also LeVay, 1996).
In orr to terme the prevalence of childhood sexual abe among gay, lbian, and bisexual dividuals, we nducted a meta-analysis that piled the rults of 65 articl across 9 untri. The rults revealed no signifint difference the prevalence of child sexual abe between homose … * gay childhood trauma *
Furthermore, belief that sexual orientatn is mutable rather than fixed has led to potentially trmatizg attempts to “cure” homosexualy, although belief that sexual orientatn is blogilly termed before birth has also led to attempts to “cure” homosexualy (LeVay, 1996). If, for example, prence of a pre-homosexual child creas risk of maral disrd and divorce, prence of a stepparent uld be fluenced by a child’s sexual orientatn, and timat g stepparent as an stment will be biased. MeasurThree dimensns of sexual orientatn were d dichotomoly: any vers no same-sex attractn; any vers no lifetime same-sex sexual partners; and bisexual, lbian or gay vers heterosexual inty.
So that possible parental nflict rultg om participants’ genr nonnformg behavr or g out as gay, lbian or bisexual uld not affect prence of a stepparent, only participants who had begun livg wh a stepparent before age 5 were d “1”; those who had never lived wh a stepparent were d “0.
We timated 9% of same-sex attractn, 21% of any lifetime same-sex sexual partnerg, and 23% of homosexual or bisexual inty was due to childhood sexual abe, assumg the nventnal effect timat are two of the four threats to validy seemed least applible to the stepparent stment, we nducted supplemental analys wh a modified versn of the stepparent variable as the sole stment. Persons willg to intify as homosexual or bisexual may also be more willg to report parental alhol abe, mental illns, or poverty. We emphasize rults g stepparent as an stmental variable, bee we expect that qualy of retrospective reportg for this factor is likely to be the most reliable and reportg is unlikely to be affected by sexual rults suggt that om half to all of the creased prevalence of childhood sexual abe experienced by sexual orientatn mori pared wh heterosexuals may be due to the effects of sexual abe on sexual orientatn, possibly through prevly proposed pathways: (1) abe of boys perpetrated by men boys to believe they are gay; (2) abe of girls by men leads them to be averse to sexual relatnships wh men; (3) abe survivors may feel stigmatized and different om others and may, therefore, be more willg to behave ways that are socially stigmatized, cludg acknowledgg same-sex attractn or havg same-sex partners (Saewyc et al., 2006).