caa a22 4500 606232354 CHVBK 20210128101226.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-014-0411-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-014-0411-2 Sociodemographic Characteristics of Trans Persons in Belgium: A Secondary Data Analysis of Medical, State, and Social Data [Elektronische Daten] [Joz Motmans, Koen Ponnet, Griet De Cuypere] By performing secondary data analyses of existing medical, social, and state data, this study examined the sociodemographic profile of trans persons in Belgium and gains knowledge on those who are functionally invisible in traditional epidemiological studies or clinical samples. Based on medical interventions, post-operative transsexual persons were selected from a social survey data set, to compare their sociodemographic profile with available data on legal sex changes from the Belgian National Register and with published data on clinical samples of post-operative transsexual persons. Furthermore, based on self-chosen gender identity categories in the social survey data, transsexual participants were compared with the transgender participants (those people feeling neither female nor male, or both female and male, or otherwise). The sociodemographic data on the post-operative transsexual persons from the three datasets appeared to be very similar. Based on identity categories, the data on transsexual and transgender persons from the social survey showed differences in marital status and employment. Transsexual persons were significantly more often divorced than transgender persons. Both groups differed significantly in employment status. Information about transgender people (or the "in-between” group) is too often lacking from studies but can be obtained when identity instead of medical criteria are used in research. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Gender dysphoria nationallicence Transsexualism nationallicence Transgender nationallicence Demography nationallicence Gender identity nationallicence Motmans Joz Policy Research Centre on Equality Politics, University of Antwerp, Lange Nieuwstraat 55, 2000, Antwerp, Belgium aut Ponnet Koen Research Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium aut De Cuypere Griet Department for Sexology and Gender Problems, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/5(2015-07-01), 1289-1299 0004-0002 44:5<1289 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0411-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0411-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Motmans Joz Policy Research Centre on Equality Politics, University of Antwerp, Lange Nieuwstraat 55, 2000, Antwerp, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ponnet Koen Research Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- De Cuypere Griet Department for Sexology and Gender Problems, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/5(2015-07-01), 1289-1299 0004-0002 44:5<1289 2015 44 10508