title: Shedding light on thirteen years of darkness: content analysis of articles pertaining to transgender issues in marriage/couple and family therapy journals.
abstract: What is the extent to which marriage/couple and family therapy (M/CFT) journals address transgender issues and how many of them say they are inclusive of transgender persons when they are not? To answer these queries, a content analysis was conducted on articles published in M/CFT literature from 1997 through 2009. Of the 10,739 articles examined in 17 journals, only nine (0.0008%) focused on transgender issues or used gender variance as a variable. Findings support the assertion that transgender issues are ignored and marginalized by M/CFT scholars and researchers alike.
authors: Marriage and Family Therapy Program, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Box 453045, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-3045, USA. markie.blumer@unlv.edu
authors: Markie L C
authors: ML
authors: Blumer
authors: Mary S
authors: MS
authors: Green
authors: Sarah J
authors: SJ
authors: Knowles
authors: April
authors: A
authors: Williams
mesh_terms: D019546:Couples Therapy / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008388:Marital Therapy / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D063106:Transgender Persons / Q000523:psychology*