The Impact of Oppression and Contextual Factors on Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth

This manuscript is one of four manuscripts that share results from an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis study about transgender and/or gender expansive youth. Nine participants aged 13–17 participated in two 60–90-min interviews and a member-checking meeting in which they co-constructed the findings with the primary researcher. The findings explored the participants’ experiences of oppression within the current social, political, historical, and cultural contextual factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic. The following sub-themes emerged from the data: mental health, trauma and coping, neurodiversity, mental health treatment, and dis/ability.