"I Wasn't a Priority, I Wasn't a Victim": Challenges in Help Seeking for Transgender Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence.
Among the crucial advancements in the study of intimate partner violence (IPV) is an understanding of the distinct help-seeking barriers that gay and lesbian victims face. Despite these additions to the literature, transgender IPV victimization remains under-researched. The current study utilized semi-structured interviews and open-ended questionnaires of 18 trans-identified survivors of IPV. Working through a modified grounded analytic approach, two major themes emerged in the help-seeking process: "walking the gender tightrope" in which participants first struggled with gendered notions of victimization that made it difficult to identify abuse, and second, the challenges of "navigating genderist resources."
1 Framingham State University, Framingham, MA, USA.
Xavier L
XL
Guadalupe-Diaz
2 University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.
Jana
J
Jasinski
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D000066505:Help-Seeking Behavior; D063509:Homophobia / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence / Q000523:psychology*; D035846:Law Enforcement / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D036301:Qualitative Research; D000072339:Sexual and Gender Minorities / Q000523:psychology; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology; D063106:Transgender Persons / Q000523:psychology*
LGBT; help-seeking; intimate partner violence; transgender