is a postdoctoral research fellow, School of Nursing, Columbia University, 560 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA.
is a student, School of Social Work.
Soc Work. 2023 Mar 16;68(2):159-165. doi: 10.1093/sw/swad006.
At a time when anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is on the rise in more than a dozen states across the United States, social work providers and researchers must be acutely aware of the ways in which their practice may unintentionally invalidate the identities of LGBTQ+ youth. Concurrently, language used in the LGBTQ+ youth community to describe both sexual identity and gender has moved away from monosexual and binary labels toward nonmonosexual and nonbinary descriptions. The adoption of such language, in practice and in research, is a simple step toward combatting invalidation in the social work field. This commentary explores the expansion of identity labels through the lens of a study conducted across four leading LGBTQ+ agencies in New York and New Jersey with youth and staff. Authors review data that demonstrate the evolution of labels and argue that adopting these terms in practice and research will have fruitful and affirming effects on access to care, treatment attrition, and the design and quality of research in and for the LGBTQ+ community. This shift in language must be comprehensively addressed to ensure that practice and research continue to adopt and advocate for ways to affirm LGBTQ+ people, particularly given the recent onslaught of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.
在美国十几个州，反 LGBTQ+ 立法的数量正在上升，社会工作人员和研究人员必须敏锐地意识到，他们的实践可能会无意中否定 LGBTQ+ 青年的身份。与此同时，LGBTQ+ 青年群体中用来描述性身份和性别认同的语言已经从单性恋和二元标签转向非单性恋和非二元描述。在实践和研究中采用这种语言是朝着打击社会工作领域否定的简单一步。本评论通过在纽约和新泽西州的四个主要 LGBTQ+ 机构与青年和工作人员进行的一项研究，从身份标签扩展的角度进行探讨。作者审查了表明标签演变的数据，并认为在实践和研究中采用这些术语将对获得护理、治疗流失以及 LGBTQ+ 社区的研究设计和质量产生富有成效和肯定的影响。为了确保实践和研究继续采用并倡导肯定 LGBTQ+ 人群的方式，必须全面解决语言的转变，特别是考虑到最近对 LGBTQ+ 的立法的强烈反对。
