'Relentless' online anti-trans stigma damages mental health: study - ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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An Australian study has linked more frequent exposure to anti-trans stigma with statistically higher rates of anxiety, depression, and self-harm or suicidal thoughts. In Australia, trans and gender-diverse people experience poor mental health outcomes than the general population, and this gap has widened over the past 22 years. As social media has continued to integrate itself into modern life, the study's lead author River Zwickl said they wanted to understand more about the impact anti-trans content had on a person's mental health. For the study, published in Frontiers of Public Health, the team surveyed 807 trans and gender-diverse people aged 16 and over, some of whom described the stigma they encountered online or in traditional media as "relentless", "omnipresent" and "inescapable". "We found that anti-trans content in the news and social media is close to unavoidable," said Dr Zwickl, a University of Melbourne researcher. "Over 70 per cent of people we surveyed had seen or heard anti-trans remarks online multiple times weekly in the previous month. " Dr Zwickl said, as someone who was trans, the results were not surprising.
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