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- Title
'Because We're Fighting to Be Ourselves:' Voices from Former Foster Youth who are Transgender and Gender Expansive.
- Authors
Mountz, Sarah; Capous-Desyllas, Moshoula; Pourciau, Elizabeth
- Abstract
There is a profound scarcity of research addressing the specific experiences of youth in care who are transgender and gender expansive. These youth face some of the most egregious mistreatment within the child welfare system. The limited scholarship addressing the experiences of youth in care who are transgender tends to be situated within legal journals and focuses on legal analyses as opposed to in-depth understanding of the experiences of these youth. This article illuminates the experiences of youth in the foster care system who are transgender and gender expansive by drawing upon a subset of data from a qualitative, community-based participatory research (CBPR) study with former foster youth in Los Angeles County who are LGBTQ. Findings identify the formidable structural and systemic barriers experienced by participants in addition to sources of resilience.
- Publication
Child Welfare, 2018, Vol 96, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
0009-4021
- Publication type
Academic Journal