@article{ref1,
title="Peer victimization of sexual minority and transgender youth: a cross-sectional study of high school students",
journal="Psychology of violence",
year="2020",
author="Norris, Alyssa L. and Orchowski, Lindsay M.",
volume="10",
number="2",
pages="201-211",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To identify rates of victimization experiences by gender identity and sexual orientation in a large regional sample of 14-to-17-year-old high school students. <br><br>METHOD: All 10th-grade students from 27 Northeastern high schools were invited to participate in a survey of dating and sexual experiences (N = 2,766). <br><br>RESULTS: Compared with heterosexual youth, sexual minority youth reported greater peer victimization of every kind (i.e., bullying, sexual harassment, unwanted sexual contact and intercourse, and every type of dating conflict [threatening behavior, physical abuse, and sexual abuse]). Sexual minority girls evinced particularly high levels of bullying. Similarly, transgender youth were more likely than nontransgender youth to experience every form of peer victimization except physical abuse in a dating relationship. Cumulatively, 91% of sexual minority girls, 86% of transgender youth, and 79% of sexual minority boys experienced at least one form of peer victimization, compared with 78% of heterosexual girls and 63% of heterosexual boys. Further, 14% of transgender youth experienced all 4 victimization types in the past year alone. Finally, bias-based harassment was rarely the only form of victimization experienced by these youth. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The victimization of sexual minority youth, particularly girls, and transgender youth was pervasive across individual forms of victimization and multiple forms of victimization concurrently. Further, bias-based harassment was imbedded within a pattern of victimization, such that youth experienced it in concert with multiple other forms of victimization. Researchers implementing prevention-based programs for interpersonal violence should examine the experiences of and impact on youth of diverse gender and sexual identities. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2152-0828",
doi="10.1037/vio0000260",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/vio0000260"
}