TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - "I wasn't a priority, I wasn't a victim": challenges in help seeking for transgender survivors of intimate partner violence
JO  - Violence against women
A1  - Guadalupe-Diaz, Xavier L.
A1  - Jasinski, Jana
SP  - 772
EP  - 792
VL  - 23
IS  - 6
N2  - Among the crucial advancements in the study of intimate partner violence (IPV) is an understanding of the distinct help-seeking barriers that gay and lesbian victims face. Despite these additions to the literature, transgender IPV victimization remains under-researched. The current study utilized semi-structured interviews and open-ended questionnaires of 18 trans-identified survivors of IPV. Working through a modified grounded analytic approach, two major themes emerged in the help-seeking process: "walking the gender tightrope" in which participants first struggled with gendered notions of victimization that made it difficult to identify abuse, and second, the challenges of "navigating genderist resources."<br><br>© The Author(s) 2016.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1077-8012
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801216650288
ID  - ref1
ER  -