Tarynn M Witten

Biographic Data

ID112498
NAMETarynn M Witten
GIVEN NAMESTarynn M
FAMILY NAMEWitten
SIGNATUREWITTEN T M
AFFILIATIONSVirginia Commonwealth University
ORCID0000-0003-4981-4171
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS37
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • Transgender and Gender Diverse People's Fear of Seeking and Receiving Care in Later Life: A Multiple Method Analysis

    Ruth V Walker, Sara M Power et al.ARTICLEJournal of Homosexuality2023Cited by: 1References: 45

    The purpose of the current research is to understand concerns about receiving care in a sample of transgender, gender nonbinary, and gender diverse (TGD) adults across the lifespan. A total of 829 participants, predominantly from the United States and Canada, aged 18-70, completed the Trans Metlife Survey on Later-Life Preparedness and Perceptions in Transgender-Identified Individuals (TMLS) section on caregiving and are included in this study. W…

  • Aging and Transgender Bisexuals: Exploring the Intersection of Age, Bisexual Sexual Identity, and Transgender Identity

    Tarynn M WittenARTICLEJournal of Bisexuality2016References: 11

    This study is the first to examine the experiences and needs of an international sample of current, English-speaking, bisexual, and transgender-identified adults (trans-bisexuals) on a number of later-life and end-of-life (EOL) perceptions, preparations, and concerns. In particular, the author analyzed a subset (n = 147) of the cross-sectional data collected from the online Trans MetLife Survey on Later-Life Preparedness and Perceptions in Transg…

  • Elder Transgender Lesbians: Exploring the Intersection of Age, Lesbian Sexual Identity, and Transgender Identity

    Tarynn M WittenARTICLEJournal of Lesbian Studies2015Cited by: 3References: 5

    This study is the first to examine the experiences and needs of an international sample of current, English-speaking, lesbian, transgender-identified (trans-lesbian) adults around a number of later life and end-of-life perceptions, preparations, and concerns. I analyzed a subset (n = 276) of the cross-sectional data collected from the online Trans MetLife Survey on Later-Life Preparedness and Perceptions in Transgender-Identified Individuals (N =…

  • Somatomorph

    Tarynn M WittenARTICLETSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly2014

    This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…

  • Religious Affiliation and Successful Aging Among Transgender Older Adults: Findings From the Trans MetLife Survey

    Kristen E Porter, Corina R Ronneberg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion, Spirituality…2013

    Religion may enhance successful aging by reducing stress, improving well-being, and augmenting social engagement. However, there is a paucity of research specific to religious affiliation in the elusive transgender-identified population. This exploratory study describes the demographic profile and religious affiliation of 289 transgender adults age 51 and older. Results indicate that the majority of transgender older adults (73.4%) are aging succ…

  • Graceful Exits: Intersection of Aging, Transgender Identities, and the Family/Community

    Tarynn M WittenARTICLEJournal of GLBT Family Studies2009

    In a previous series of papers, this author investigated many of the challenges of growing old within the transgender population. Challenges with respect to violence, abuse, and hate crimes were examined as they related to institutional organizations such as the health care system, religious organizations, the military, and the legal system. Medical and general health care needs of transgender-identified elders were also addressed. However, withi…

  • Understanding Spirituality and Religiosity in the Transgender Community: Implications for Aging

    Jeremy D Kidd, Tarynn M WittenARTICLEJournal of Religion, Spirituality…2008

    Given that the established Gerontological literature on the long-term negative impact of violence, abuse, and other negative life events, given that researchers have demonstrated the positive impact of faith, spirituality, and particularly religiosity on long-term health, and given that violence and abuse are a serious, frequent and lifelong experience in the transgender-identified population, we undertook an examination of the religious, spiritu…

  • Life Course Analysis-The Courage to Search for Something More: Middle Adulthood Issues in the Transgender and Intersex Community

    Tarynn M WittenARTICLEJournal of Human Behavior in the…2004Cited by: 12References: 72

    In this paper we discuss middle-to-late life issues of the transgender and intersex communities. We demonstrate that these mid-to-late life issues are richly complex, full of courage, coping, risk, and resilience, and are grounded in a socio-ecological landscape of systemic actual and perceived violence and abuse. We examine how this socio-ecological environment affects the “normative” mid-life cycle processes. Practical examples are drawn from t…

  • Hate crimes and violence against the Transgendered

    Open AccessTarynn M Witten, A Evan EylerARTICLEPeace Review1999Cited by: 21

    According to J. Caputi, “in mainstream discussion, violent crimes against women are frequently presented as inexplicable and their perpetrators as social deviants ... [Researchers] have argued for an awareness of the sexually political and conformist nature of such crimes and have invented the word ‘gynocide’ to name the range of systematic violence against women by men.” Similarly, crimes of violence and victimization against transsexual, transg…