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aged groups to older age groups; this was unlike the decline observed

group of 44 clinically referred feminine-acting boys ages 3.5–11 identified as bisexual or homosexual

age, SES, gender/transgender categories, sexual identity, sexual behavior, and disability status (Bowleg, 2012). However, “simply asking questions about demographic difference or comparing different social groups

groups—whether by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, gender, age, education, income, social class, disability

group facilitators identified as female, while facilitators and observers represented diverse racial backgrounds and sexual orientations. This was done to make participants feel they were in a safe environment among peers. Table 7.1Demographic Information of Participants Gender Age Race

age and regardless of licensure status of the provider. At least 22 states introduced SOGIE change efforts bans in 2015 (Movement Advancement Project, n.d.), and several jurisdictions have since introduced legislative bans (e.g., Prevention of Emotional Neglect and Childhood Endangerment in Erie County, New York [Marans, 2016]). Although

group disparities in abuse victimization,” as just one example (Austin et al., 2008). Such policy actions are essential to make progress toward the goal of reducing the “psychological, physical, economic, and societal cost of child abuse” (p. 604). Sexual minorities have been found to have higher rates

age and more a vital, generative, exciting maturation of LGBT psychology and mental health. In thinking about this unexpected unfolding—how it came to be and its implications for what the further development of LGBT psychology might bring—we have come to a few thoughts we would like

groups, 141–44; behavioral reactions to, 146; cognitive reactions to, 147; emotional reactions to, 146–47; enactors of, 148; mental health impacts, 147–48; methodology, 137–40; overview, 134–37; against racial/ethnic minorities, 91; against sexual minorities, 91; themes, 144–45; types and domains of, 141 Microassaults

ages for childhood transition. But we have not yet figured out how we will work with trans adults who grew up as trans children. These phenomena that the field has rarely seen before now come to psychoanalytic clinicians in greater numbers. Perhaps much of what psychoanalysis can offer