E D Lioutas, I Tzimitra-Kalogianni
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Child: care, health and development
transgender gender diverse youth experience multiple disproportionate adverse sexual health outcomes sexual health education teaches knowledge attitudes skills promoting sexual health including reducing risk sexually transmitted infection hiv acquisition unintended pregnancy provision sexual health education may protective research remains scarce conducted multistage thematic analysis 33 indepth interviews among transgender gender diverse youth ages 1524 living southeastern united states sexual health education experiences study participants described schoolbased sexual health education unhelpful due lack relevant information inadequately prepared teachers perceived negative tone toward sexuality reported relying online sources sexual health information finding relevant content community despite limitations participants desired content pedagogy expands beyond binary whitecentric presentations sexuality gender sought resources provide relevant accurate judgmentfree information holding positive framing around sexuality gender much work needed improve breadth quality relevance schoolbased sexual health education sexual health education improve strengthening critical media literacy skills youth raising staff cultural competency gender race sexual identity training supports using culturally relevant inclusive curricula partnering communitybased organizations transgender gender diverse youth would benefit sexual health education multiple sources queerfriendly affirms existence provides information gender race sexuality positive expansive ways