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.	97
Exploring the Q in LGBTQ: Demographic characteristic and sexuality of queer people in a U.S. representative sample of sexual minorities.	46
Gender dysphoria and minority stress: Support for inclusion of gender dysphoria as a proximal stressor.	43
Minority stress in nonbinary students in higher education: The role of campus climate and belongingness.	37
“Previous resilience has taught me that I can survive anything:” LGBTQ resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.	36
Real-time associations between discrimination and anxious and depressed mood among sexual and gender minorities: The moderating effects of lifetime victimization and identity concealment.	34
Normative substance use antecedents among sexual minorities: A scoping review and synthesis.	33
Examining identity development and transition differences among binary transgender and genderqueer nonbinary (GQNB) individuals.	30
Gender diverse college students exhibit higher psychological distress than male and female peers during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.	28
The Italian validation of the gender minority stress and resilience measure.	27
Gender expansive youth disclosure and mental health: Clinical implications of gender identity disclosure.	25
Narratives of gender, sexuality, and community in three generations of genderqueer sexual minorities.	23
The COVID-19 pandemic, authoritarianism, and rejection of sexual dissenters in Poland.	23
Examination of minority stress pathways to suicidal ideation among sexual minority adults: The moderating role of LGBT community connectedness.	23
LGBTQ+ people and COVID-19: The importance of resilience during a pandemic.	21
Experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic among African American, Latinx, and White sexual minority women: A descriptive phenomenological study.	21
Posttraumatic stress in the trans community: The roles of anti-transgender bias, non-affirmation, and internalized transphobia.	21
Gender variations, generational effects, and mental health of transgender people in relation to timing and status of gender identity milestones.	21
Nonmonosexual stress and dimensions of health: Within-group variation by sexual, gender, and racial/ethnic identities.	20
Relationships between transgender congruence, gender identity rumination, and self-esteem in transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals.	20
Exploring the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire in treatment seeking transgender youth.	19
Safety and belonging as explanations for mental health disparities among sexual minority college students.	19
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.	19
Multiply marginalized: Linking minority stress due to sexual orientation, gender, and weight to dysregulated eating among sexual minority women of higher body weight.	18
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.	18

“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.	17
Stressors and drinking in sexual minority women: The mediating role of emotion dysregulation.	17
Qualitative exploration of perceptions of sexual assault and associated consequences among LGBTQ+ college students.	16
“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.	16
Exploring potential determinants of sexual victimization disparities among young sexual minoritized people: A mixed-method study.	15
Inconcealable: A cognitive–behavioral model of concealment of gender and sexual identity and associations with physical and mental health.	15
“The default is just going to be getting misgendered”: Minority stress experiences among nonbinary adults.	15
Perceived threat of COVID-19 among sexual minority and heterosexual women.	15
A dangerous visibility: Moderating effects of antitrans legislative efforts on trans and gender-diverse mental health.	15
Parasocial relationships and depression among LGBQ emerging adults living with their parents during COVID-19: The potential for online support.	14
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.	13
Demographic and social factors impacting coming out as a sexual minority among Generation-Z teenage boys.	13
The gender/sex 3×3: Measuring and categorizing gender/sex beyond binaries.	13
It’s complicated: The impact of marriage legalization among sexual minority women and gender diverse individuals in the United States.	13
Systematic review of the content and methods of empirical psychological research on LGBTQ and SGM populations in the new millennium.	12
Coping, resilience, and social support among transgender and gender diverse individuals experiencing gender-related stress.	12
Self-harm and suicidality in gender-nonconforming children: A Canadian community-based parent-report study.	12
Cognitive-affective and religious values associated with parental acceptance of an LGBT child.	12
Creating space for ourselves: Black sexual minority women and gender diverse individuals countering anti-Black racism and heterosexism.	12
“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.	12
The impact of heteronormative ideals imposition on sexual orientation questioning distress.	11
Family of origin, not chosen family, predicts psychological health in a LGBTQ+ sample.	11
Understanding of intersex: The meanings of umbrella terms and opinions about medical and social responses among laypeople in the United States and United Kingdom.	11
Women’s rationales and perspectives on “mostly” as a nonexclusive sexual identity label.	11
Visualizing gender/sex diversity via sexual configurations theory.	11
The clinical irrelevance of “desistance” research for transgender and gender creative youth.	10
Do relationships provide the same levels of protection against heavy drinking for lesbian and bisexual women? An intersectional approach.	10
Training mental health providers in queer-affirming care: A systematic review.	10
The negative impact of COVID-19 on sexual minority young adults: Demographic differences and prospective associations with depression.	10
Resilience among trans and gender-diverse adults: The protective role of dispositional hope in the perceived burdensomeness-suicide relationship.	10
Mental health in transgender adults: The role of proximal minority stress, community connectedness, and gender nonconformity.	10
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.	10
Psychometric validation and extension of the LGBT people of Color Microaggressions Scale with a sample of sexual minority BIPOC college students.	10
The role of support for transgender and nonbinary employees: Perceived co-worker and organizational support’s associations with job attitudes and work behavior.	10
Toward radical healing: A qualitative metasynthesis exploring oppression and liberation among Black queer people.	9
Patterns of online relationship seeking among transgender and gender diverse adolescents: Advice for others and common inquiries.	9
Why LGBTQ+ campus resource centers are essential.	9
“We are scared of being kicked out of our religion!”: Common challenges and benefits for sexual minority latter-day saints.	9
Translating online positive psychology interventions to sexual and gender minorities: A systematic review.	9
Toward a multidimensional construct of racialized sexual discrimination (RSD): Implications for scale development.	9
Mental health provider training to improve LGBTQ competence and reduce implicit and explicit bias: A randomized controlled trial of online and in-person delivery.	9
COVID-19 health behaviors in a sexual minority sample: The impact of internalized stigma.	9
A pilot test of a text message-based transgender and nonbinary affirmative cognitive-behavioral intervention for anxiety and depression.	9
Gay-gender expression and attitudes toward gay people: The moderating role of perceived men’s feminization.	9
LGBQ activism and positive psychological functioning: The roles of meaning, community connection, and coping.	8
Mental health among LGBTQ cannabis users during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of the COVID-19 cannabis health study.	8
Young transgender women survivors of intimate partner violence: A latent class analysis of protective processes.	8
Psychosocial mediators of the relations between sexual orientation and depressive symptoms in a longitudinal sample of young people.	8
“This is mind expanding”: Reactions to an online survey using sexual configurations theory.	8
Race and sexual orientation: An intersectional analysis and confirmatory factor analysis of the Perceptions of Police Scale.	8

LGBTQ individuals’ lived experiences of hypervigilance.	8
Mental health, alcohol use, and substance use correlates of sexism in a sample of gender-diverse sexual minority women.	8
Sexual minority identity development: Latent profiles of developmental milestones in a national probability sample.	8
How, when, and why do bisexual+ individuals attempt to make their identity visible?	7
Bisexual women’s recovery after sexual assault: Stigma, negative social reactions, and hazardous drinking.	7
“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.	7
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.	7
What does transgender mean to you? Transgender definitions and attitudes toward trans people.	7
Family, faith, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) among LGBTQ youth in Utah.	7
Assessing gender in young children: Constructs and considerations.	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
Experiences of health care discrimination among transgender and gender nonconforming people of color: A latent class analysis.	7
Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in sexual minorities.	6
Trans people’s attitudes and beliefs regarding the diagnosis of “gender dysphoria”: Research in the Italian context.	6
The perks of being bi+: Positive sexual orientation–related experiences among bisexual, pansexual, and queer male youth.	6
Clinical psychology students’ perspectives on involving transgender community members in teaching activities within their training in Aotearoa New Zealand.	6
Reducing internalized transnegativity: Randomized controlled trial of an online intervention.	6
Monoracial and multiracial LGBTQ+ people: Comparing internalized heterosexism, perceptions of racism, and connection to LGBTQ+ communities.	6
When young adult men who have sex with men seek partners online: Online discrimination and implications for mental health.	6
The relationship between social group prejudice and vulnerability to sexual violence in bisexual women.	6
Centering the margins: A moderation study examining cisgender privilege among LGBTQ+ BIPoC college students facing intersectional microaggressions.	6
LGBTQ rumination, anxiety, depression, and community connection during Trump’s presidency.	6
A commentary on COVID-19 and the LGBT community in Nigeria: Risks and resilience.	6
Bisexual+ visibility attempts: Associations with minority stress, affect, and substance use in a daily diary study.	5
Confirmatory factor and measurement invariance analyses of the Drive for Muscularity Scale in sexual minority men and women.	5
Rejecting equality: Psychological differences between Australian sexual minority men voting “yes,” voting “no,” or abstaining from voting on the legalization of same-sex marriage.	5
The role of moral reasoning and attitudes regarding bisexuality in the development of bisexual counseling competence.	5
Age-varying sexual orientation disparities in mental health, treatment utilization, and social stress: A population-based study.	5
Sexual identity disparities in mental health among U.K. adults, U.S. adults, and U.S. adolescents: Examining heterogeneity by race/ethnicity.	5
Transgender Affect Misattribution Procedure (Transgender AMP): Development and initial evaluation of performance of a measure of implicit prejudice.	5
The Self-Acceptance of Sexuality Inventory (SASI): Development and validation.	5
Feasibility of strategies for recruiting parents of sexual minority youth for online interventions and research.	5
Community support for sexual and gender diversity, minority stress, and mental health: A mixed-methods study of adolescents with minoritized sexual and	5
Healing from heterosexist experiences: A mixed method intervention study using expressive writing.	5
Investigating microaggressions against transgender individuals as a form of social exclusion.	5
Temporal trends in rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidality among cisgender sexual minority and heterosexual college students.	5
Bridging the science communication gap: The development of a fact sheet for clinicians and researchers about consensually nonmonogamous relationships.	5
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.	4
Differences in patient satisfaction across sexual orientation and gender identity in an acute care setting.	4
The impact of sexual and gender role orientation on heterosexuals’ judgments of parental competence and adoption suitability.	4
The experiences of Australian transgender young people in school counseling: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.	4
Determinants of mental health outcomes among transgender Latinas: Minority stress and resilience processes.	4
A study of parents of sexual and gender minority children: Linking parental reactions with child mental health.	4
Internalizing minority stress: Gender dysphoria, minority stress, and psychopathology in a norwegian transgender population.	4
Mental health providers’ biases, knowledge, and treatment decision making with gender-minority clients.	4
A systematic review of sexuality measurement in transgender and gender diverse populations.	4
Gender/sex/ual diversity and biobehavioral research.	4
Gender identity change efforts faced by trans and nonbinary people in New Zealand: Associations with demographics, family rejection, internalized transphobia, and mental health.	4
Same-sex relationships of men with autism spectrum disorder in middle adulthood: An interpretative phenomenological study.	4
Beyond diagnosis: “Gender dysphoria feels like a living hell, a nightmare one cannot ever wake up from”.	4
Assessing gender dysphoria: A systematic review of patient-reported outcome measures.	4
Why do brief online writing interventions improve health? Examining mediators of expressive writing and self-affirmation intervention efficacy among sexual minority emerging adults.	4
Sexual/gender minority-related individual differences predict likelihood of social action after a hate crime.	4
A cognitive-behavioral exploration of the psychological impact of the Australian Marriage Law postal survey: A reflexive thematic analysis.	4
Do beliefs about sexual orientation predict voting behavior? Results from the 2016 U.S. presidential election.	4
Measurement invariance of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21) across cisgender sexual minority and transgender and nonbinary individuals.	4
Pray the gay will stay? Church shopping and religious gatekeeping around homosexuality in an audit study of Christian church officials.	3
Asian-Canadian trans youth: Identity development in a hetero-cis-normative white world.	3
Access and barriers to health services among sexual and gender minority college students.	3
Queer Asian American men’s racialized dating preferences: The role of internalized racism and resistance and empowerment against racism.	3
How deep is the cut? The influence of daily microaggressions on bisexual women’s health.	3
“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.	3
Shining a light in the dungeon: A content analysis of sexual and gender minority representation in the kink literature.	3
Gender-related minority stress and gender dysphoria: Development and initial validation of the Gender Dysphoria Triggers Scale (GDTS).	3
Gender differences in attitudes toward bisexual people and bisexuality: A systematic review and meta-analysis.	3
Minority stress and posttraumatic growth in the transgender and nonbinary community.	3
An exploration of psychological distress, employment, and housing among transgender and gender diverse individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic.	3
The relations among outness, authenticity, and well-being for bisexual adults.	3
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.	3
Revealing more than gender: Rigid gender-role beliefs and transphobia are related to engagement with fetal sex celebrations.	3
How sexual and gender minority students discuss sexuality and gender in describing their experiences of sexual violence.	3
Initial evaluation of a gender-inclusive version of the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale.	3
Holding the space: Individual- and group-level factors predicting member retention in gender-sexuality alliances.	3
Uncovering bi-as: Developing new measures of binegativity.	3
Not straight enough, nor queer enough: Identity denial, stigmatization, and negative affect among bisexual and pansexual people.	3
Emotion regulation in context: Expressive flexibility as a stigma coping resource for sexual minority men.	3
Enacted and anticipated stigma related to consensual nonmonogamy among LGBTQ+ adults.	3
Mental health and marginalization stress in transgender and gender diverse adults: Differences between urban and non-urban experiences.	3
Partnership status and mental health in a nationally representative sample of sexual minorities.	3
Measurement of sexuality for trans and gender diverse populations: Application of the 2021 APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Sexual Minority Persons.	3

Young Black trans and gender-diverse activists' well-being among anti-Black racism and cissexism during the COVID-19 pandemic.	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.	2
Social networks of LGBT older adults: An integrative review.	2
Manipulating minority stress: Validation of a novel film-based minority stress induction with lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults.	2
Centering Black queer people in our journey toward collective healing: From clinical implications to liberation.	2
Self-affirmation reduces internalized heterosexism in sexual minority people.	2
The intersection of transgender and gender-diverse identity and neurodiversity among college students: An exploration of minority stress.	2
Perceived risk, optimistic bias, and united action: A socioecological examination of COVID-19 prevention behaviors among sexual minority men.	2
Barriers to LGBQ- and TGNB-affirmative clinical training in psychology doctoral programs.	2
Retrospective feelings of difference based on gender and sexuality among emerging adults.	2
Finding God alongside trials: Catholicism and resilience among queer Filipino emerging adults.	2
“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.	2
Sexual assault disclosure among sexual minority individuals: Associations with “outness,” perceived stigma, community belonging, and perceptions of police.	2
Invalidation and mental health among nonbinary individuals.	2
Stress testing the minority stress model: It's not just neuroticism.	2
When reality does not meet expectations: What sexual minority assigned-male-at-birth adolescents learn from using geosocial networking apps.	2
Exploration of the experiences of sexual and gender minority students in school psychology programs.	2
Perceived boundary negotiations with former partners among queer stepfamilies.	2
Weight misperception and thin-ideal overvaluation relative to the positive functioning and eating disorder pathology of transgender and nonbinary young adults.	2
Sexual assault disclosure and outcomes in the LGB+ community.	2
Doomscrolling: Prospective associations between daily COVID news exposure, internalizing symptoms, and substance use among sexual and gender minority individuals assigned female at birth.	2
Minority stress, pandemic stress, and mental health among gender diverse young adults: Gender dysphoria and emotion dysregulation as mediators.	2
The association between sexual orientation discrimination and drinking among men who have sex with men: Results from an ecological momentary assessment study.	2
Sexual orientation change efforts: Health associations, sexual identity labeling, and reports of change by engagement status.	2
A content analysis of psychological research on vocational issues among sexual minority people.	2
Trends and disparities in suicidal behaviors for heterosexual and sexual minority youth 1995–2017.	2
Dating violence victimization disparities across sexual orientation of a population-based sample of adolescents: An adverse childhood experiences perspective.	2
Evaluating the relationships between sexual orientation, weight-related teasing, weight bias internalization, and binge eating.	2
An intersectional approach to understanding minority stressors and relationship satisfaction in sexual and gender minority women’s same-gender interracial/interethnic intimate relationships.	2
Associations between drinking contexts, minority stress, and problematic alcohol use among sexual minority individuals assigned female at birth.	2
Deepening understanding of nuanced identity within the transgender community through an exploration of posttraumatic growth.	2
Differences in risk for suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among sexual and gender minority young adults and the moderating role of social support.	1
From and for folks: Relationships between forms of social support and suicidal thinking in transgender and gender diverse adults.	1
Examining partnership-health associations among transgender individuals using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data.	1
Sharing positive experiences related to one’s sexual orientation: Examining the capitalization process in a sample of gay men.	1
Caught in a bad romance: Endorsement of traditional romantic ideology, internalized heterosexism, and intimate partner violence experiences among sexual minority individuals.	1
Exploring mental health and help-seeking attitudes among sexual minoritized adults in Utah.	1
Experiences of community connection and belonging for sexual minority trans individuals.	1
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.	1
Bisexual women’s sexual health: A test of objectification theory.	1
The consequences of prototypicality: Testing the prejudice distribution account of bias toward gay men.	1
Parent responses to their sexual and gender minority children: Implications for parent-focused supportive interventions.	1
“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.	1
Relationship functioning of sexual minority people of color.	1
Bisexual stereotypes in clinical evaluation.	1
Associations between trans-inclusive resources and feelings of inclusion in campus LGBTQ+ groups: Differences for trans students of color.	1
The effect of mindfulness on increasing self-reported LGBTQ competency level and reducing explicit LGBTQ bias in health care providers.	1
The mediating effects of body surveillance on internalized discriminations and body satisfaction in plurisexual women of color.	1
Body image and cigarette smoking among sexual minority Latino men.	1
Methodological and implementation considerations in adapting Photovoice to a virtual format with LGBTQ+ youth of color during a pandemic and social uprising.	1
Do gender assessments prevent regret in transgender healthcare? A narrative review.	1
Comparing the relationship of workplace bullying and PTSD in bisexual versus monosexual workers.	1
Trauma, mental health, and health care experiences of lesbian and bisexual women in Rwanda.	1
Toward informed consent: Canadian providers’ perspectives on presurgical mental health assessments for gender-affirming surgeries.	1
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	1
Coping with being tolerated: Trans experiences.	1
A both/and approach to conceptualizing multiple minority stress in sexual and racial minorities.	1
Mental health care use among adolescent sexual minority males before and during COVID-19.	1
Not safe for all: A mixed-methods study of violence against men in commercial sex.	1
Using the companionship model when writing referral letters for transgender and nonbinary adults.	1
Evaluation of the gender minority stress model in transgender and gender diverse college students.	1
Gender variance and psychological well-being in Chinese community children.	1
Self-objectification endorsement among heterosexual and sexual minority people and its association with negative affect and substance use.	1
Constructing a scale to measure sexual racism experienced by men of color who have sex with men.	1
Representation of sexual and gender minority experiences in the kink/BDSM literature: Considering the clinical implications.	1
Surveying trans and nonbinary communities: Research methodologies, accountability, and ethics with the Trans Bodies, Trans Selves Survey (2nd edition).	1
Whose vocational issues?: A call toward an inclusive understanding of vocational issues among sexual minority people.	1
A latent class analysis of sexual identity, attraction, and behavior among young sexual-minority women.	1
“Voted yes—What else can I do?”: Coping with stigma-related stress during the Australian marriage equality debate.	1
Test–retest reliability and sensitivity of a brief clinical monitoring measure for transgender and gender diverse adults: The Trans Collaborations Clinical Check-In (TC³).	1
“Binaries do not exist!” measuring gender identity among diverse rural middle-school youth.	1
Desire on lockdown? Sexual desire and COVID-19 stress among LGBTQ+ and cisgender, heterosexual college students.	1
The misuse of scientific uncertainty claims in sexual orientation change efforts research: Comment on Rosik, Beckstead, and Lefevor (2023).	1
School psychologists’ perceptions of transgender training and education: An Australian qualitative investigation.	1
Investigating implicit and explicit attitudes toward sexual minorities in Taiwan.	1
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	1
Testing a mediational framework for sexual minority resilience.	1
Sexual orientation and adolescent health outcomes: A latent profile approach.	1