by Emilia Stoneham | Feb 26, 2023 | Life Transitions, Transgender Gender Non-Conforming
Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) youth face many obstacles in modern society. This post will summarize the issues that lead to suicide, attempted suicide, suicidal ideation, and self-harm within the adolescent TGNC population and how to combat these mental...
by PACMH Team | Jul 29, 2021 | Gender Identity, Sex
This is part two in a two part series. Read part one about gender identity. Gender and sexual identity are highly complex factors of self that both fall within a spectrum. The previous article focused the conversation about the category of gender and its three...
by PACMH Team | Apr 29, 2021 | Gender Identity
In 2014 Facebook sent US society into an uproar when the website added over 50 gender identities for users to self-select (Oremus, 2014). In a binary US society, Facebook’s steps toward inclusivity became a concrete representation of the reality that gender and sexual...
by PACMH Team | Nov 16, 2020 | Suicide Prevention, Transgender Gender Non-Conforming
November 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance. This is a moment to gather together in a collective memorial for people killed because their gender identity does not fall within social construct norms. Gender is often a socially-constructed binary deeming how one...
