Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

Article	Citations
Mental health among transgender and gender diverse youth: An exploration of effects during the COVID-19 pandemic.	106
“Previous resilience has taught me that I can survive anything:” LGBTQ resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.	44
Examining identity development and transition differences among binary transgender and genderqueer nonbinary (GQNB) individuals.	38
Gender variations, generational effects, and mental health of transgender people in relation to timing and status of gender identity milestones.	37
Gender diverse college students exhibit higher psychological distress than male and female peers during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.	36
“The default is just going to be getting misgendered”: Minority stress experiences among nonbinary adults.	34
Examination of minority stress pathways to suicidal ideation among sexual minority adults: The moderating role of LGBT community connectedness.	33
Posttraumatic stress in the trans community: The roles of anti-transgender bias, non-affirmation, and internalized transphobia.	32
The gender/sex 3×3: Measuring and categorizing gender/sex beyond binaries.	29
Multiply marginalized: Linking minority stress due to sexual orientation, gender, and weight to dysregulated eating among sexual minority women of higher body weight.	28
A dangerous visibility: Moderating effects of antitrans legislative efforts on trans and gender-diverse mental health.	27
The COVID-19 pandemic, authoritarianism, and rejection of sexual dissenters in Poland.	26
“I am afraid for those kids who might find death preferable”: Parental figures’ reactions and coping strategies to bans on gender affirming care for transgender and gender diverse youth.	25
LGBTQ+ people and COVID-19: The importance of resilience during a pandemic.	23
Disclosure, minority stress, and mental health among bisexual, pansexual, and queer (Bi+) adults: The roles of primary sexual identity and multiple sexual identity label use.	23
Experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic among African American, Latinx, and White sexual minority women: A descriptive phenomenological study.	23
Changes in mental health and well-being are associated with living arrangements with parents during COVID-19 among sexual minority young persons in the U.S.	22
“I’m still not sure if the eating disorder is a result of gender dysphoria”: Trans and nonbinary individuals’ descriptions of their eating and body concerns in relation to their gender.	22
Safety and belonging as explanations for mental health disparities among sexual minority college students.	21
Qualitative exploration of perceptions of sexual assault and associated consequences among LGBTQ+ college students.	20
Inconcealable: A cognitive–behavioral model of concealment of gender and sexual identity and associations with physical and mental health.	20
Using family and ecological systems approaches to conceptualize family- and community-based experiences of transgender and/or nonbinary youth from the trans teen and family narratives project.	18
Parasocial relationships and depression among LGBQ emerging adults living with their parents during COVID-19: The potential for online support.	18
Demographic and social factors impacting coming out as a sexual minority among Generation-Z teenage boys.	18
Creating space for ourselves: Black sexual minority women and gender diverse individuals countering anti-Black racism and heterosexism.	17

“Coming together after tragedy reaffirms the strong sense of community and pride we have:” LGBTQ people find strength in community and cultural values during the COVID-19 pandemic.	17
Visualizing gender/sex diversity via sexual configurations theory.	16
Understanding of intersex: The meanings of umbrella terms and opinions about medical and social responses among laypeople in the United States and United Kingdom.	16
Exploring potential determinants of sexual victimization disparities among young sexual minoritized people: A mixed-method study.	16
The clinical irrelevance of “desistance” research for transgender and gender creative youth.	16
Perceived threat of COVID-19 among sexual minority and heterosexual women.	16
Toward radical healing: A qualitative metasynthesis exploring oppression and liberation among Black queer people.	15
Mental health in transgender adults: The role of proximal minority stress, community connectedness, and gender nonconformity.	15
Mental health provider training to improve LGBTQ competence and reduce implicit and explicit bias: A randomized controlled trial of online and in-person delivery.	15
LGBTQ individuals’ lived experiences of hypervigilance.	15
Coping, resilience, and social support among transgender and gender diverse individuals experiencing gender-related stress.	15
Systematic review of the content and methods of empirical psychological research on LGBTQ and SGM populations in the new millennium.	14
It’s complicated: The impact of marriage legalization among sexual minority women and gender diverse individuals in the United States.	14
“We are scared of being kicked out of our religion!”: Common challenges and benefits for sexual minority latter-day saints.	14
Training mental health providers in queer-affirming care: A systematic review.	14
The role of support for transgender and nonbinary employees: Perceived co-worker and organizational support’s associations with job attitudes and work behavior.	14
Family of origin, not chosen family, predicts psychological health in a LGBTQ+ sample.	13
A pilot test of a text message-based transgender and nonbinary affirmative cognitive-behavioral intervention for anxiety and depression.	13
Gender/sex/ual diversity and biobehavioral research.	12
Resilience among trans and gender-diverse adults: The protective role of dispositional hope in the perceived burdensomeness-suicide relationship.	12
COVID-19 health behaviors in a sexual minority sample: The impact of internalized stigma.	12
The negative impact of COVID-19 on sexual minority young adults: Demographic differences and prospective associations with depression.	12
Why LGBTQ+ campus resource centers are essential.	12
Keeps me awake at night: The potential of the COVID-19 pandemic to affect sleep quality among sexual minority men in the U.S.A.	11
Does outness function the same for all sexual minority youth? Testing its associations with different aspects of well-being in a sample of youth with diverse sexual identities.	11
Sexual minority identity development: Latent profiles of developmental milestones in a national probability sample.	11
Translating online positive psychology interventions to sexual and gender minorities: A systematic review.	11
Toward a multidimensional construct of racialized sexual discrimination (RSD): Implications for scale development.	10
Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in sexual minorities.	10
Mental health, alcohol use, and substance use correlates of sexism in a sample of gender-diverse sexual minority women.	10
Psychometric validation and extension of the LGBT people of Color Microaggressions Scale with a sample of sexual minority BIPOC college students.	10
What does transgender mean to you? Transgender definitions and attitudes toward trans people.	10
Gay-gender expression and attitudes toward gay people: The moderating role of perceived men’s feminization.	10
Young transgender women survivors of intimate partner violence: A latent class analysis of protective processes.	9
LGBQ activism and positive psychological functioning: The roles of meaning, community connection, and coping.	9
Experiences of health care discrimination among transgender and gender nonconforming people of color: A latent class analysis.	9
Patterns of online relationship seeking among transgender and gender diverse adolescents: Advice for others and common inquiries.	9
Assessing gender dysphoria: A systematic review of patient-reported outcome measures.	9
How, when, and why do bisexual+ individuals attempt to make their identity visible?	9
Mental health among LGBTQ cannabis users during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of the COVID-19 cannabis health study.	9
Centering the margins: A moderation study examining cisgender privilege among LGBTQ+ BIPoC college students facing intersectional microaggressions.	8
“It’s just not comfortable to exist in a body”: Transgender/gender nonbinary individuals’ experiences of body and eating distress during the COVID-19 pandemic.	8
Feminist and queer science: Principles for research with gender, sex, and sexuality in psychology and beyond.	8
Community support for sexual and gender diversity, minority stress, and mental health: A mixed-methods study of adolescents with minoritized sexual and gender identities.	8
A study of parents of sexual and gender minority children: Linking parental reactions with child mental health.	8
Trends and disparities in suicidal thoughts and behaviors and mental health symptoms among sexual and gender minority college students in the U.S., 2008–2018.	8
When young adult men who have sex with men seek partners online: Online discrimination and implications for mental health.	8
Age-varying sexual orientation disparities in mental health, treatment utilization, and social stress: A population-based study.	8
“This is mind expanding”: Reactions to an online survey using sexual configurations theory.	8
Temporal trends in rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidality among cisgender sexual minority and heterosexual college students.	8

Clinical psychology students’ perspectives on involving transgender community members in teaching activities within their training in Aotearoa New Zealand.	8
Gender identity change efforts faced by trans and nonbinary people in New Zealand: Associations with demographics, family rejection, internalized transphobia, and mental health.	7
Monoracial and multiracial LGBTQ+ people: Comparing internalized heterosexism, perceptions of racism, and connection to LGBTQ+ communities.	7
LGBTQ rumination, anxiety, depression, and community connection during Trump’s presidency.	7
Bridging the science communication gap: The development of a fact sheet for clinicians and researchers about consensually nonmonogamous relationships.	7
Sexual identity disparities in mental health among U.K. adults, U.S. adults, and U.S. adolescents: Examining heterogeneity by race/ethnicity.	7
Out of the closet, but not out of the woods: The longitudinal associations between identity disclosure, discrimination, and nonsuicidal self-injury among sexual minoritized young adults.	7
Investigating microaggressions against transgender individuals as a form of social exclusion.	7
Mental health providers’ biases, knowledge, and treatment decision making with gender-minority clients.	7
A commentary on COVID-19 and the LGBT community in Nigeria: Risks and resilience.	7
Bisexual women’s recovery after sexual assault: Stigma, negative social reactions, and hazardous drinking.	7
Development and validation of the Trans and Nonbinary Coping Measure (TNCM): A measure of trans and nonbinary specific ways of coping with gender-related stress.	7
Family, faith, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) among LGBTQ youth in Utah.	7
Reducing internalized transnegativity: Randomized controlled trial of an online intervention.	7
Confirmatory factor and measurement invariance analyses of the Drive for Muscularity Scale in sexual minority men and women.	6
Minority stress and posttraumatic growth in the transgender and nonbinary community.	6
The perks of being bi+: Positive sexual orientation–related experiences among bisexual, pansexual, and queer male youth.	6
A systematic review of sexuality measurement in transgender and gender diverse populations.	6
Social networks of LGBT older adults: An integrative review.	6
The relations among outness, authenticity, and well-being for bisexual adults.	6
Initial evaluation of a gender-inclusive version of the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale.	6
The relationship between social group prejudice and vulnerability to sexual violence in bisexual women.	6
Determinants of mental health outcomes among transgender Latinas: Minority stress and resilience processes.	6
Internalizing minority stress: Gender dysphoria, minority stress, and psychopathology in a norwegian transgender population.	6
Young Black trans and gender-diverse activists' well-being among anti-Black racism and cissexism during the COVID-19 pandemic.	6
Gender-related minority stress and gender dysphoria: Development and initial validation of the Gender Dysphoria Triggers Scale (GDTS).	6
Bisexual+ visibility attempts: Associations with minority stress, affect, and substance use in a daily diary study.	5
The experiences of Australian transgender young people in school counseling: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.	5
An exploration of psychological distress, employment, and housing among transgender and gender diverse individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic.	5
Access and barriers to health services among sexual and gender minority college students.	5
Queer Asian American men’s racialized dating preferences: The role of internalized racism and resistance and empowerment against racism.	5
Feasibility of strategies for recruiting parents of sexual minority youth for online interventions and research.	5
How sexual and gender minority students discuss sexuality and gender in describing their experiences of sexual violence.	5
When reality does not meet expectations: What sexual minority assigned-male-at-birth adolescents learn from using geosocial networking apps.	5
Barriers to LGBQ- and TGNB-affirmative clinical training in psychology doctoral programs.	5
Finding God alongside trials: Catholicism and resilience among queer Filipino emerging adults.	5
Not straight enough, nor queer enough: Identity denial, stigmatization, and negative affect among bisexual and pansexual people.	5
“It’s loving yourself for you”: Happiness in trans and nonbinary adults.	5
Enacted and anticipated stigma related to consensual nonmonogamy among LGBTQ+ adults.	5
The role of moral reasoning and attitudes regarding bisexuality in the development of bisexual counseling competence.	5
“In order to be bi, you have to prove it”: A qualitative examination of plurisexual women’s experiences with external and internalized pressure to prove their identities.	5
Pray the gay will stay? Church shopping and religious gatekeeping around homosexuality in an audit study of Christian church officials.	5
Invalidation and mental health among nonbinary individuals.	5
Healing from heterosexist experiences: A mixed method intervention study using expressive writing.	5
Measurement invariance of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21) across cisgender sexual minority and transgender and nonbinary individuals.	5
The Self-Acceptance of Sexuality Inventory (SASI): Development and validation.	5
Revealing more than gender: Rigid gender-role beliefs and transphobia are related to engagement with fetal sex celebrations.	5
Why do brief online writing interventions improve health? Examining mediators of expressive writing and self-affirmation intervention efficacy among sexual minority emerging adults.	5
Associations between drinking contexts, minority stress, and problematic alcohol use among sexual minority individuals assigned female at birth.	4
Emotion regulation in context: Expressive flexibility as a stigma coping resource for sexual minority men.	4
Weight misperception and thin-ideal overvaluation relative to the positive functioning and eating disorder pathology of transgender and nonbinary young adults.	4
Sexual/gender minority-related individual differences predict likelihood of social action after a hate crime.	4
Evaluating the relationships between sexual orientation, weight-related teasing, weight bias internalization, and binge eating.	4
Asian-Canadian trans youth: Identity development in a hetero-cis-normative white world.	4
A content analysis of psychological research on vocational issues among sexual minority people.	4
Deepening understanding of nuanced identity within the transgender community through an exploration of posttraumatic growth.	4
“Sharing lived experience”: Describing a virtual counselor-facilitated LGBTQ+ support group for disordered eating.	4
A cognitive-behavioral exploration of the psychological impact of the Australian Marriage Law postal survey: A reflexive thematic analysis.	4
Beyond diagnosis: “Gender dysphoria feels like a living hell, a nightmare one cannot ever wake up from”.	4
Differences in patient satisfaction across sexual orientation and gender identity in an acute care setting.	4
Partnership status and mental health in a nationally representative sample of sexual minorities.	4
Gender differences in attitudes toward bisexual people and bisexuality: A systematic review and meta-analysis.	4
Do gender assessments prevent regret in transgender healthcare? A narrative review.	3
Sexual assault disclosure among sexual minority individuals: Associations with “outness,” perceived stigma, community belonging, and perceptions of police.	3
Minority stress, pandemic stress, and mental health among gender diverse young adults: Gender dysphoria and emotion dysregulation as mediators.	3
Manipulating minority stress: Validation of a novel film-based minority stress induction with lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults.	3
Mental health and marginalization stress in transgender and gender diverse adults: Differences between urban and non-urban experiences.	3
“I hope that as our selection becomes more accurate, the number … will be very few”: The creation of assessment criteria for gender-affirming care, 1960s–1980s.	3
Shining a light in the dungeon: A content analysis of sexual and gender minority representation in the kink literature.	3
“Binaries do not exist!” measuring gender identity among diverse rural middle-school youth.	3
Uncovering bi-as: Developing new measures of binegativity.	3
The association between sexual orientation discrimination and drinking among men who have sex with men: Results from an ecological momentary assessment study.	3
Bisexual women's experiences of receiving help for mental health difficulties through psychological therapy: A qualitative exploration.	3
Gender variance and psychological well-being in Chinese community children.	3
How deep is the cut? The influence of daily microaggressions on bisexual women’s health.	3
Doomscrolling: Prospective associations between daily COVID news exposure, internalizing symptoms, and substance use among sexual and gender minority individuals assigned female at birth.	3
A typology of pathways to detransition: Considerations for care practice with transgender and gender diverse people who stop or reverse their gender transition.	3
Holding the space: Individual- and group-level factors predicting member retention in gender-sexuality alliances.	3
Hazardous substance use among sexual and gender minority adults: A deeper look into distal minority stressors.	3
Protest, panic, policy, and parades: Memory for cultural–historical events and psychosocial identity in the LGBTQ+ community.	3

Gender, traditional gender ideology, gender essentialist beliefs, and masculinity threat as determinants of attitudes toward trans and gender diverse people in a U.K. sample.	3
Exploration of the experiences of sexual and gender minority students in school psychology programs.	3
An intersectional approach to understanding minority stressors and relationship satisfaction in sexual and gender minority women’s same-gender interracial/interethnic intimate relationships.	3
Dominant masculinity and marginalized sexuality: Extending minority stress theory for gay and bisexual+ men.	3
Measurement of sexuality for trans and gender diverse populations: Application of the 2021 APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Sexual Minority Persons.	3
Dating violence victimization disparities across sexual orientation of a population-based sample of adolescents: An adverse childhood experiences perspective.	2
A both/and approach to conceptualizing multiple minority stress in sexual and racial minorities.	2
Centering Black queer people in our journey toward collective healing: From clinical implications to liberation.	2
Development and evaluation of a training program to reduce homophobia and transphobia among human resource staff and health professionals in the workplace: A randomized controlled trial.	2
Mental health care use among adolescent sexual minority males before and during COVID-19.	2
Minority stress among Russian lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in young and middle adulthood: Associations with internalizing and externalizing mental health problems.	2
“Solidarity and community on our terms and through our lens”: Community care and shared trauma for transgender and nonbinary peer supporters during the COVID-19 pandemic.	2
Social supports, social stressors, and psychosocial functioning in a sample of transgender youth seeking gender-affirming clinical services.	2
Stress testing the minority stress model: It's not just neuroticism.	2
Parent responses to their sexual and gender minority children: Implications for parent-focused supportive interventions.	2
Self-affirmation reduces internalized heterosexism in sexual minority people.	2
Test–retest reliability and sensitivity of a brief clinical monitoring measure for transgender and gender diverse adults: The Trans Collaborations Clinical Check-In (TC³).	2
The intersection of transgender and gender-diverse identity and neurodiversity among college students: An exploration of minority stress.	2
Sexual assault disclosure and outcomes in the LGB+ community.	2
Not safe for all: A mixed-methods study of violence against men in commercial sex.	2
Development and initial validation of the LGBTQ+ Community Resilience and Inequity Scale.	2
Sexual orientation change efforts: Health associations, sexual identity labeling, and reports of change by engagement status.	2
Trauma, mental health, and health care experiences of lesbian and bisexual women in Rwanda.	2
Perceived risk, optimistic bias, and united action: A socioecological examination of COVID-19 prevention behaviors among sexual minority men.	2
The consequences of prototypicality: Testing the prejudice distribution account of bias toward gay men.	2
From and for folks: Relationships between forms of social support and suicidal thinking in transgender and gender diverse adults.	2
School psychologists’ perceptions of transgender training and education: An Australian qualitative investigation.	2
Trends and disparities in suicidal behaviors for heterosexual and sexual minority youth 1995–2017.	2
The role of internalized transphobia and negative expectations in the relationship between identity-specific intimate partner violence and mental health outcomes in transgender and gender nonconformin	2
Sexual orientation and gender diversity research manuscript writing guide.	2
Bisexual stereotypes in clinical evaluation.	2
Event-level contextual and motivational risk factors for cannabis use: Evidence for differing associations based on individual-level patterns of cannabis use among sexual minority women and gender div	2
A prospective examination of sexual orientation and suicidal and nonsuicidal self-injurious thoughts and behaviors among a diverse sample of at-risk young adult women.	1
Differences in risk for suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among sexual and gender minority young adults and the moderating role of social support.	1
Whose vocational issues?: A call toward an inclusive understanding of vocational issues among sexual minority people.	1
Self-objectification endorsement among heterosexual and sexual minority people and its association with negative affect and substance use.	1
Queer and transgender joy: A daily diary qualitative study of positive identity factors among sexual and gender minority adolescents.	1
Supplemental Material for Development and Validation of the Trans and Nonbinary Coping Measure (TNCM): A Measure of Trans and Nonbinary Specific Ways of Coping With Gender-Related Stress	1
Coping with being tolerated: Trans experiences.	1
Sexual minority behavioral health outcomes: The role of identity authenticity and self-regulation.	1
Dyadic Coping Inventory—Sexual Minority Stress: A scale validation with lesbian, gay, and bi+ men and women in same- and different-gender couples.	1
Preliminary findings from Mapping Q: An arts-based suicide prevention program for sexual and gender minority youth.	1
Experiences of community connection and belonging for sexual minority trans individuals.	1
Relationship functioning of sexual minority people of color.	1
Nonbinary Black womxn gender identity: Blackness between and beyond the binary.	1
The effect of mindfulness on increasing self-reported LGBTQ competency level and reducing explicit LGBTQ bias in health care providers.	1
Minority stress and resilience experiences in adolescents and young adults with intersex variations/differences of sex development.	1
Testing a mediational framework for sexual minority resilience.	1
The role of language in nonbinary identity construction: Gender words matter.	1
A grounded theory of sexual and gender minority suicide risk: The sexual and gender minority suicide risk and protection model.	1
Surveying trans and nonbinary communities: Research methodologies, accountability, and ethics with the Trans Bodies, Trans Selves Survey (2nd edition).	1
Representation of sexual and gender minority experiences in the kink/BDSM literature: Considering the clinical implications.	1
Chronic illness and disability among sexual minority persons: Exploring the roles of proximal minority stress, adaptation, and quality of life.	1
Understanding the experiences of youth who have discontinued a gender transition: Provider perspectives.	1
Examining partnership-health associations among transgender individuals using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data.	1
Desire on lockdown? Sexual desire and COVID-19 stress among LGBTQ+ and cisgender, heterosexual college students.	1
Parenting and psychological adjustment during middle childhood in lesbian, gay, and heterosexual parent families formed through assisted reproduction.	1
Comparing the relationship of workplace bullying and PTSD in bisexual versus monosexual workers.	1
Feelings of LGBTQ+ community belonging among diverse youth with LGBTQ+ parents in the United States.	1
A latent class analysis of sexual identity, attraction, and behavior among young sexual-minority women.	1
Gender identity, sexual orientation, and the prenatal androgen theory: Reevaluating definitions, cognitive tests, and somatic markers.	1
Bisexual women’s sexual health: A test of objectification theory.	1
Mock jurors’ perceptions of child sexual abuse cases involving sexual and gender minority victims.	1
The misuse of scientific uncertainty claims in sexual orientation change efforts research: Comment on Rosik, Beckstead, and Lefevor (2023).	1
Sexual orientation and adolescent health outcomes: A latent profile approach.	1
Bi+ identity visibility and well-being in the context of romantic relationships.	1
Email responsiveness varies based on the pronouns in the requesters’ email signature: The role of they/them pronouns.	1
Internalized homophobia and social well-being among Black sexual minority men living with HIV: The mediating role of LGBT community connectedness and racial, gender, and sexual identity integration.	1
Discrimination and suicide risk among transgender and gender-diverse adults: The moderating roles of self-compassion, self-coldness, and gender identity.	1
The mediating effects of body surveillance on internalized discriminations and body satisfaction in plurisexual women of color.	1
Microaggressions and dropout when working with sexual minority parents in clinical settings: The working alliance as a mediating mechanism.	1
A test of the integrative mediation model of minority stress with sexual minority adults.	1
“Voted yes—What else can I do?”: Coping with stigma-related stress during the Australian marriage equality debate.	1
Methodological and implementation considerations in adapting Photovoice to a virtual format with LGBTQ+ youth of color during a pandemic and social uprising.	1
“My queer identity and my family identity are two very separate things”: A mixed-methods study investigating the psychological implications of family identity and support for trans and gender diverse	1
Toward informed consent: Canadian providers’ perspectives on presurgical mental health assessments for gender-affirming surgeries.	1
Perceived social support as a protective factor against psychological distress in the context of COVID-19-related stress and sexual minority status in Nigeria.	1
Exploring mental health and help-seeking attitudes among sexual minoritized adults in Utah.	1
Substance use in sexual minority emerging adults: Insights into use by pansexual and asexual individuals.	1
Using the companionship model when writing referral letters for transgender and nonbinary adults.	1
Drag performance and health: Predicting depression and resilience.	1
Associations between trans-inclusive resources and feelings of inclusion in campus LGBTQ+ groups: Differences for trans students of color.	1
The timing of sexual identity development milestones: Disentangling age from cohort influences.	1
Evaluation of the gender minority stress model in transgender and gender diverse college students.	1
Constructing a scale to measure sexual racism experienced by men of color who have sex with men.	1
Correlates of Christian religious identification and deidentification among sexual and gender minorities: A U.S. probability sample.	1