Honors College Thesis
 

HIV and the Transmasculine Community – Can Statistical Significance Be Harmful?

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  • Epidemiological research on HIV/AIDS seeks to determine at-risk populations not reached by current care. In the forty years since the AIDS epidemic began, transgender people were only recently deemed “at-risk” by the CDC and more action was taken to study them. Most current research centers on transgender women, with transgender men either excluded from studies or relegated to further research. A significant contributor to this problem is the desire in research, healthcare, and policy for statistically significant data. Statistical significance helps determine the likelihood of chance in data but doesn’t convey how a community is affected. Given studies done on transgender men and HIV generally use small convenience samples, the data is consistently not significant. Furthermore, this data often makes assumptions about trans men bodies and sexualities, leading conclusions from their data to be inaccurate. This thesis argues that dependency on quantitative, statistically significant data in HIV research creates a cyclical, harmful pattern yielding unhelpful data by undergoing an intersectional critique of current research regarding transgender HIV healthcare. This project also suggests manners in which research/care can move towards analyzing narratives of affected gay, bi, or queer-identified transgender men including trans men of color.
  • Key Words: HIV, AIDS, transgender, FTM, transman, transgender men, qualitative research
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