Clark, Terryann C., et al. "The Health and Well-being of Transgender High School Students:
Results from the New Zealand Adolescent Health Survey (Youth '12)." The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, vol. 55, no. 1, 2014., pp. 93-99 doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2013.11.008.
This article was published three years ago in the Journal of Adolescent Health. It evaluates the transgender portion of the 2012 survey done gender minority youth in New Zealand. It addresses the rates of sexual attraction, bullying, depression, suicide attempts, and general health of transgender high school students. However, it identifies some flaws in the survey such as it does not specify whether the sexual attraction …show more content…
It is relevant to the prompt as it addresses the problems of transgender students in high school. Transgender students have a 40% chance of being depressed, bullied, having attempted suicide in the past 12 months, or had harmed themselves. They also had a higher risk of violence or compromised personal safety. If there was Berger education on the different genders, there would probably be fewer students who were unsure about their gender (2.5%), and the transgender students would be safer on the basis of bullying. Much of the depression and suicide probably stems from not feeling as though there is a place of them to fit into, but if there was better gender education then high school would probably feel like a safer environment for transgender …show more content…
It examines the amount of youth who are "out," the progress of bullying and suicide rates towards them, and their general health rates. Mathijs Lucassen discusses that, while more youth have come out and they are satisfied in school, the majority is not depressed, there has not been any progress in the overall suicide and bullying rates and they report a lower level of general health than the sexual majority. It also shows that "a greater proportion of female SMY [sexual minority youth] reported attempting suicide in comparison with male SMY," which shows that the dynamics of gender expectations may be changing to be more accepting of the feelings of males than it has been i the
Results from the New Zealand Adolescent Health Survey (Youth '12)." The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, vol. 55, no. 1, 2014., pp. 93-99 doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2013.11.008.
This article was published three years ago in the Journal of Adolescent Health. It evaluates the transgender portion of the 2012 survey done gender minority youth in New Zealand. It addresses the rates of sexual attraction, bullying, depression, suicide attempts, and general health of transgender high school students. However, it identifies some flaws in the survey such as it does not specify whether the sexual attraction …show more content…
It is relevant to the prompt as it addresses the problems of transgender students in high school. Transgender students have a 40% chance of being depressed, bullied, having attempted suicide in the past 12 months, or had harmed themselves. They also had a higher risk of violence or compromised personal safety. If there was Berger education on the different genders, there would probably be fewer students who were unsure about their gender (2.5%), and the transgender students would be safer on the basis of bullying. Much of the depression and suicide probably stems from not feeling as though there is a place of them to fit into, but if there was better gender education then high school would probably feel like a safer environment for transgender …show more content…
It examines the amount of youth who are "out," the progress of bullying and suicide rates towards them, and their general health rates. Mathijs Lucassen discusses that, while more youth have come out and they are satisfied in school, the majority is not depressed, there has not been any progress in the overall suicide and bullying rates and they report a lower level of general health than the sexual majority. It also shows that "a greater proportion of female SMY [sexual minority youth] reported attempting suicide in comparison with male SMY," which shows that the dynamics of gender expectations may be changing to be more accepting of the feelings of males than it has been i the