Rebecca Swinburne Romine

TL;DR: The findings support the minority stress model and suggest that prevention needs to confront social structures, norms, and attitudes that produce minority stress for gender-variant people and enhance peer support; and improve access to mental health and social services that affirm transgender identity and promote resilience.

TL;DR: The experiences of a team of investigators using the Internet to study HIV risk behaviors of transgender people in the United States indicate that the Internet environment presents the investigator with some unique challenges and that commonly expressed criticisms about Internet research can be overcome with careful method design, usability testing, and pilot testing.

TL;DR: A preliminary model of sexual abuse perpetration consistent with contemporary theories is provided, suggesting attachment anxiety with a lack of misanthropic attitudes toward others appears to lead to isolation from peers and feelings of interpersonal inadequacy.

TL;DR: Results indicate that children with ASD were more likely to be obese but not morelikely to be overweight than non-ASD youth, and fewer family meals were associated with normal weight status among children with ASD.

TL;DR: It is suggested that gender nonconformity alone does not itself result in markedly higher HIV risk, and sex with nontransgender men emerged as the strongest independent predictor of unsafe sex for both male-to-female (MtF) and female- to-male (FtM) participants.