The Social and Sexual Networks of Black Transgender Women and Black Men Who Have Sex with Men: Results from a Representative Sample
| Autor: | Jerel M. Ezell, Matthew J. Ferreira, Dustin T. Duncan, John A. Schneider |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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social networks
transgender women Sexual network lcsh:Special situations and conditions men who have sex with men Medicine (miscellaneous) Logistic regression Men who have sex with men Gender Studies 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Betweenness centrality Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine gender identity Socioeconomic status Reproductive health 030505 public health business.industry lcsh:RC952-1245 HIV Odds ratio Confidence interval respondent-driven sampling Original Article 0305 other medical science business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Transgender Health, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 201-209 (2019) Transgender Health |
| ISSN: | 2380-193X |
| Popis: | Background: Little research has evaluated the social and sexual network-related health outcomes of young black transgender women (TGW) or compared these outcomes with those of black men who have sex with men (MSM). Social network analysis offers one potent means of understanding the dynamics driving the broad spectrum of adverse outcomes experienced by these subgroups. Methods: We examined the social and sexual health network traits of 618 black individuals assigned male at birth who have sex with men, 47 (7.6%) of whom identified as TGW. Using respondent-driven sampling, data collection occurred over three waves between 2013 and 2016, in Chicago, Illinois. Univariate, logistic regression, and confidant and sexual network analyses were conducted to characterize dynamic network features. Results: TGW's mean age was 22.1 (standard deviation ±2.6). TGW's sexual networks were significantly less stable (stability ratio of 0.175 vs. 0.278 among MSM, p=0.03) and had greater network turnover (turnover ratio of 0.825 vs. 0.735, p=0.04). TGW also had significantly more sex partners (7.6 vs. 4.0, p=0.0002) and exchange sex (odds ratio=2.97; 95% confidence interval: 1.66–5.32, p |
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