A Preliminary Validation of Gender Minority Stress and Resilience Measure in Turkish Transgender Individuals

AbstractTransgender and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) individuals experience stress due to discriminatory events in society. This stress causes them to become vulnerable to physical and mental health problems. However, there is no validated scale that can be used in the assessment of TGNC people in counseling in Turkey. Gender Minority Stress and Resilience Measure (GMSR) is a scale that evaluates the stress and resilience factors of TGNC individuals. The aim of this study is to investigate the validity of the Turkish version of GMSR (GMSR-Tr). Our study presents preliminary evidence of the validity of the GMSR-Tr.Keywords: Gender dysphoriagender identitygender minority stressgender transitionminority stressresilienceresilience measuretransgendertransgender mental healthvalidation AcknowledgementsWe would like to give special thanks to Rylan Jay Testa PhD, the developer of GMSR Measure, for allowing us to use the scale for the Turkish validation studies, and to Dr. Pinar Beard and Dr. Ezgi Ince-Guliyev, for their contributions to translation of the scale.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis study was performed in Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.