K K H Tan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 47710 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | K K H Tan |
| NOMBRES | K K H |
| APELLIDO | Tan |
| FIRMA | TAN K K H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6831-7045 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Institutional (dis)trust among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people in Malaysia
In Malaysia, pervasive institutional discrimination harms lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people and complicates how they may build and sustain trust with different public institutions. Employing a mixed-methods approach, this study examined the prevalence of institutional (dis)trust among a sample (n = 647) of LGBTQ+ adults in Malaysia, and the factors that influenced their institutional (dis)trust. Using descriptive analy…
Problematic Reasoning Under the Guise of Anti-Māori Talk
Drawing from a subset of Twitter/X quotes (or tweets) on the politically controversial Three Waters Reform, this study identified forms of anti-Māori discourse through a deductive analysis. A complementary analysis was conducted to unpack how problematic reasoning fueled racism against Māori. Our results revealed distinct and interconnected themes—“resources,” “culture,” “stirrer,” “privilege,” and “one people”—that portrayed Māori as undeserving…
An exploratory mapping LGBTQ+ research and intervention priorities in Southeast Asia (2025–2035)
Extant literature remains fragmented and does not inclusively represent the lived realities and needs of LGBTQ+ populations in Southeast Asia. This study aimed to identify LGBTQ+ research and intervention priorities in this region through an anonymous survey with researchers, community workers, and advocates conducted from May to August 2025 (N = 142). Participants represented 11 Southeast Asian countries, with the highest proportions from the Ph…
“ It felt like walking in the dark ”
The extant literature has shown that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities face considerable barriers in pursuing higher education and achieving their academic aspirations. To date, a critical gap remains in scholarly understandings of the enablers and barriers faced by researchers conducting LGBTQ+ research in Southeast Asia (SEA). This study aims to illuminate the challenges of conducting LGBTQ+ research in Indones…
“It is About Enabling Tino Rangatiratanga and Mana Motuhake”
Indigenous leadership in healthcare is one way for Indigenous peoples to exercise sovereignty over their health. In Aotearoa New Zealand, the establishment of the Māori Health Authority (MHA) was grounded in a decades-long imperative to address Māori health inequities and operationalise te Tiriti o Waitangi within the health system. However, the populist National-led coalition government formed in November 2023 included the abolishment of the MHA…
Pushing an irritational button”
The monocultural psychology training in Aotearoa New Zealand deliberately centers White racial framing which enables those who benefit from Whiteness to uphold an imposed hierarchy of racially inferior (Māori) and superior (Pākehā) groups. In Aotearoa, we are faced with a reality that Asian (as a diverse group from East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia) knowledge sources and the intake of Asian students into psychology training are scarcely p…
Exposure to negative LGBT-related media messages as a social determinant of mental health inequities for LGBT+ people in Malaysia
Introduction Media dissemination of anti-LGBT+ sentiments is commonplace in Malaysia. This study examines the prevalence of negative media exposure among LGBT+ people in Malaysia, the association between negative media exposure and mental health outcomes, and the role of negative future expectations for societal unacceptance as a mediator of the association. Method Drawing data from a cross-sectional survey of Malaysia-based LGBT+ adults (n = 675…
Push and pull factors for transgender migration to Aotearoa/New Zealand
Evaluating an inclusive methodology for collecting and coding gender data in sexuality- and gender-diverse youth survey research
Encounters with police as a social determinant of mental health for LGBT+ people in Malaysia
Sexuality and gender change efforts in Malaysia – proximal stressors and mental ill-health amongst LGBT+ adults
Despite growing international criticism of actions and efforts to change sexual orientation and gender identity, such efforts remain prevalent in Malaysia. Using data from a nationwide community-based survey, this study examined the prevalence of these efforts amongst LGBT+ adults and the association between exposure to them and mental health outcomes. Participants (n = 521) completed an online survey assessing exposure to efforts to change their…
Differential Patterns of Mental Health Status Among LGBT+ People in Malaysia
There are scant LGBT+ studies in Southeast Asia exploring mental health differences across multiple social identities. Using data from the Malaysian KAMI Survey (n = 718), we conducted bivariate regression analyses to investigate the association between sociodemographic backgrounds and the prevalence of depression, anxiety, non-suicidal self-injury, and suicidality. Results showed that younger participants, those questioning their sexual orientat…
Wong, S.G-J (2023). Queer Asian Identities in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand
An ecological analysis of hope amongst Asian rainbow young people in Aotearoa New Zealand
Rainbow research tends to prioritise gender and sexuality experiences over the racialised experiences of Asian rainbow young people. Informed by an intersectional lens, we employed a hope-based ecological framework to examine how multiple overlapping axes of oppression (e.g. cisgenderism, heterosexism and racism) shape the aspirations of these youth. We drew on the voices of Asian participants from the 2021 Aotearoa New Zealand Identify Survey, w…
The integration of queer-related curriculum in psychology training in Aotearoa/New Zealand
As a key profession within the mental health workforce, psychologists can offer affirmative services that lead to positive therapeutic outcomes for queer clients. This study examined how training programmes to become a registered psychologist in Aotearoa New Zealand currently provide content on working with queer clients. In 2022, all (N = 17) programme directors of psychology training were invited to participate in a survey that assessed the cul…
A critical race analysis of Māori representation in university strategic documents in Aotearoa New Zealand
Following the recent claims lodged at two universities in Aotearoa New Zealand alleging the existence of racism, there has been scepticism towards the professed commitments by universities to create an inclusive and safe environment for Indigenous Mori. As a Kaupapa Mori-informed study, we (a group of Mori and Tauiwi scholars) employed tenets of Critical Race Theory to examine how the representation of Mori is racialised and subordinated in unive…
A Critical Tiriti Analysis of the Treaty Statement From a University in Aotearoa New Zealand
Universities in Aotearoa New Zealand have been placed under the spotlight for claims of systemic racism. Following the claims made in relation to the University of Waikato in 2020 and University of Otago in 2022, universities have the responsibility to create an inclusive environment where systemic racism is dismantled, to meaningfully partner with Māori to construct a model for decolonisation, and to enhance the academic experience of Māori staf…
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts for Young People in New Zealand
Sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts (SOGICE) are harmful practices, yet who suggests them to young people and what impacts are associated with these suggestions have received limited attention in the literature. The present study explored whether certain suggesters, and the frequency of categories of suggesters (including religious leaders, family members, and health professionals), were associated with suicidality and non-suici…
Current Research Involving LGBTQ People in Malaysia
In Malaysia, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people (collectively known as LGBTQ) are subjected to cisheterosexism that criminalizes, pathologizes, and marginalizes their identities. Given the relative cisheterosexist nature of Malaysian society, it is important to scrutinize the current trend of research studies that have recruited LGBTQ people as subjects. The present study comprises a scoping review of existing Malaysian studies…
Gender identity change efforts faced by trans and nonbinary people in New Zealand
Based on their transphobic assumption that being transgender or nonbinary is pathological or otherwise undesirable, gender identity change efforts (GICE) attempt to make a person’s gender conform with their sex assigned at birth. While many professional bodies have noted that GICE practices are unethical, there has been little empirical research into the prevalence and correlates of GICE exposure. Counting Ourselves: The Aotearoa New Zealand Tran…
It’s how the world around you treats you for being trans’
Globally, transgender people have been described as a highly marginalised population due to cisgenderism that delegitimises their gender identities and expressions. Despite robust evidence from many countries noting the association of discrimination and stigma for being transgender with heightened mental health risks, qualitative research that examines the nuances of mental health indicators using health equity frameworks has been scant both in A…
Mental Health Inequities among Transgender People in Aotearoa New Zealand
There has been little international research looking at differences in mental health across different age groups. This study examines mental health inequities between transgender people and the Aotearoa/New Zealand general population from youth to older adulthood. The 2018 Counting Ourselves survey ( N = 1178) assessed participants' mental health using the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) and diagnoses of depression and anxiety disorder…
Gender Minority Stress
Past studies that compare cisgender to transgender (or trans) and gender diverse people have found a higher prevalence of mental health problems among the latter groups. This article uses Testa's gender minority stress framework, which is an expansion of minority stress theory, to assess minority stressors that are specific to the experiences of trans and gender diverse people. The concept of cisnormativity, an ideology that positions cisgender i…
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts for Young People in New Zealand
Sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts (SOGICE) are harmful practices, yet who suggests them to young people and what impacts are associated with these suggestions have received limited attention in the literature. The present study explored whether certain suggesters, and the frequency of categories of suggesters (including religious leaders, family members, and health professionals), were associated with suicidality and non-suici…
A critical race analysis of Māori representation in university strategic documents in Aotearoa New Zealand
Following the recent claims lodged at two universities in Aotearoa New Zealand alleging the existence of racism, there has been scepticism towards the professed commitments by universities to create an inclusive and safe environment for Indigenous Mori. As a Kaupapa Mori-informed study, we (a group of Mori and Tauiwi scholars) employed tenets of Critical Race Theory to examine how the representation of Mori is racialised and subordinated in unive…
Gender identity change efforts faced by trans and nonbinary people in New Zealand
Based on their transphobic assumption that being transgender or nonbinary is pathological or otherwise undesirable, gender identity change efforts (GICE) attempt to make a person’s gender conform with their sex assigned at birth. While many professional bodies have noted that GICE practices are unethical, there has been little empirical research into the prevalence and correlates of GICE exposure. Counting Ourselves: The Aotearoa New Zealand Tran…
It’s how the world around you treats you for being trans’
Globally, transgender people have been described as a highly marginalised population due to cisgenderism that delegitimises their gender identities and expressions. Despite robust evidence from many countries noting the association of discrimination and stigma for being transgender with heightened mental health risks, qualitative research that examines the nuances of mental health indicators using health equity frameworks has been scant both in A…
Mental Health Inequities among Transgender People in Aotearoa New Zealand
There has been little international research looking at differences in mental health across different age groups. This study examines mental health inequities between transgender people and the Aotearoa/New Zealand general population from youth to older adulthood. The 2018 Counting Ourselves survey ( N = 1178) assessed participants' mental health using the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) and diagnoses of depression and anxiety disorder…
Gender Minority Stress
Past studies that compare cisgender to transgender (or trans) and gender diverse people have found a higher prevalence of mental health problems among the latter groups. This article uses Testa's gender minority stress framework, which is an expansion of minority stress theory, to assess minority stressors that are specific to the experiences of trans and gender diverse people. The concept of cisnormativity, an ideology that positions cisgender i…
Current Research Involving LGBTQ People in Malaysia
In Malaysia, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people (collectively known as LGBTQ) are subjected to cisheterosexism that criminalizes, pathologizes, and marginalizes their identities. Given the relative cisheterosexist nature of Malaysian society, it is important to scrutinize the current trend of research studies that have recruited LGBTQ people as subjects. The present study comprises a scoping review of existing Malaysian studies…
Gender identity change efforts faced by trans and nonbinary people in New Zealand
Based on their transphobic assumption that being transgender or nonbinary is pathological or otherwise undesirable, gender identity change efforts (GICE) attempt to make a person’s gender conform with their sex assigned at birth. While many professional bodies have noted that GICE practices are unethical, there has been little empirical research into the prevalence and correlates of GICE exposure. Counting Ourselves: The Aotearoa New Zealand Tran…
It’s how the world around you treats you for being trans’
Globally, transgender people have been described as a highly marginalised population due to cisgenderism that delegitimises their gender identities and expressions. Despite robust evidence from many countries noting the association of discrimination and stigma for being transgender with heightened mental health risks, qualitative research that examines the nuances of mental health indicators using health equity frameworks has been scant both in A…
A Critical Tiriti Analysis of the Treaty Statement From a University in Aotearoa New Zealand
Universities in Aotearoa New Zealand have been placed under the spotlight for claims of systemic racism. Following the claims made in relation to the University of Waikato in 2020 and University of Otago in 2022, universities have the responsibility to create an inclusive environment where systemic racism is dismantled, to meaningfully partner with Māori to construct a model for decolonisation, and to enhance the academic experience of Māori staf…
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts for Young People in New Zealand
Sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts (SOGICE) are harmful practices, yet who suggests them to young people and what impacts are associated with these suggestions have received limited attention in the literature. The present study explored whether certain suggesters, and the frequency of categories of suggesters (including religious leaders, family members, and health professionals), were associated with suicidality and non-suici…
Wong, S.G-J (2023). Queer Asian Identities in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand
An ecological analysis of hope amongst Asian rainbow young people in Aotearoa New Zealand
Rainbow research tends to prioritise gender and sexuality experiences over the racialised experiences of Asian rainbow young people. Informed by an intersectional lens, we employed a hope-based ecological framework to examine how multiple overlapping axes of oppression (e.g. cisgenderism, heterosexism and racism) shape the aspirations of these youth. We drew on the voices of Asian participants from the 2021 Aotearoa New Zealand Identify Survey, w…
The integration of queer-related curriculum in psychology training in Aotearoa/New Zealand
As a key profession within the mental health workforce, psychologists can offer affirmative services that lead to positive therapeutic outcomes for queer clients. This study examined how training programmes to become a registered psychologist in Aotearoa New Zealand currently provide content on working with queer clients. In 2022, all (N = 17) programme directors of psychology training were invited to participate in a survey that assessed the cul…
A critical race analysis of Māori representation in university strategic documents in Aotearoa New Zealand
Following the recent claims lodged at two universities in Aotearoa New Zealand alleging the existence of racism, there has been scepticism towards the professed commitments by universities to create an inclusive and safe environment for Indigenous Mori. As a Kaupapa Mori-informed study, we (a group of Mori and Tauiwi scholars) employed tenets of Critical Race Theory to examine how the representation of Mori is racialised and subordinated in unive…
“It is About Enabling Tino Rangatiratanga and Mana Motuhake”
Indigenous leadership in healthcare is one way for Indigenous peoples to exercise sovereignty over their health. In Aotearoa New Zealand, the establishment of the Māori Health Authority (MHA) was grounded in a decades-long imperative to address Māori health inequities and operationalise te Tiriti o Waitangi within the health system. However, the populist National-led coalition government formed in November 2023 included the abolishment of the MHA…
Pushing an irritational button”
The monocultural psychology training in Aotearoa New Zealand deliberately centers White racial framing which enables those who benefit from Whiteness to uphold an imposed hierarchy of racially inferior (Māori) and superior (Pākehā) groups. In Aotearoa, we are faced with a reality that Asian (as a diverse group from East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia) knowledge sources and the intake of Asian students into psychology training are scarcely p…
Exposure to negative LGBT-related media messages as a social determinant of mental health inequities for LGBT+ people in Malaysia
Introduction Media dissemination of anti-LGBT+ sentiments is commonplace in Malaysia. This study examines the prevalence of negative media exposure among LGBT+ people in Malaysia, the association between negative media exposure and mental health outcomes, and the role of negative future expectations for societal unacceptance as a mediator of the association. Method Drawing data from a cross-sectional survey of Malaysia-based LGBT+ adults (n = 675…
Push and pull factors for transgender migration to Aotearoa/New Zealand
Evaluating an inclusive methodology for collecting and coding gender data in sexuality- and gender-diverse youth survey research
Encounters with police as a social determinant of mental health for LGBT+ people in Malaysia
Sexuality and gender change efforts in Malaysia – proximal stressors and mental ill-health amongst LGBT+ adults
Despite growing international criticism of actions and efforts to change sexual orientation and gender identity, such efforts remain prevalent in Malaysia. Using data from a nationwide community-based survey, this study examined the prevalence of these efforts amongst LGBT+ adults and the association between exposure to them and mental health outcomes. Participants (n = 521) completed an online survey assessing exposure to efforts to change their…
Differential Patterns of Mental Health Status Among LGBT+ People in Malaysia
There are scant LGBT+ studies in Southeast Asia exploring mental health differences across multiple social identities. Using data from the Malaysian KAMI Survey (n = 718), we conducted bivariate regression analyses to investigate the association between sociodemographic backgrounds and the prevalence of depression, anxiety, non-suicidal self-injury, and suicidality. Results showed that younger participants, those questioning their sexual orientat…
Institutional (dis)trust among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people in Malaysia
In Malaysia, pervasive institutional discrimination harms lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people and complicates how they may build and sustain trust with different public institutions. Employing a mixed-methods approach, this study examined the prevalence of institutional (dis)trust among a sample (n = 647) of LGBTQ+ adults in Malaysia, and the factors that influenced their institutional (dis)trust. Using descriptive analy…
Problematic Reasoning Under the Guise of Anti-Māori Talk
Drawing from a subset of Twitter/X quotes (or tweets) on the politically controversial Three Waters Reform, this study identified forms of anti-Māori discourse through a deductive analysis. A complementary analysis was conducted to unpack how problematic reasoning fueled racism against Māori. Our results revealed distinct and interconnected themes—“resources,” “culture,” “stirrer,” “privilege,” and “one people”—that portrayed Māori as undeserving…
An exploratory mapping LGBTQ+ research and intervention priorities in Southeast Asia (2025–2035)
Extant literature remains fragmented and does not inclusively represent the lived realities and needs of LGBTQ+ populations in Southeast Asia. This study aimed to identify LGBTQ+ research and intervention priorities in this region through an anonymous survey with researchers, community workers, and advocates conducted from May to August 2025 (N = 142). Participants represented 11 Southeast Asian countries, with the highest proportions from the Ph…
“ It felt like walking in the dark ”
The extant literature has shown that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities face considerable barriers in pursuing higher education and achieving their academic aspirations. To date, a critical gap remains in scholarly understandings of the enablers and barriers faced by researchers conducting LGBTQ+ research in Southeast Asia (SEA). This study aims to illuminate the challenges of conducting LGBTQ+ research in Indones…
LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (15 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Gender Studies (11 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Transgender (11 obras) · Aotearoa (9 obras) · Mental health (9 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Clinical Psychology (7 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras)