Much stigma-related research focuses on marginalized populations, including men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people. The importance of research in this area is widely recognized, however methodologies and measures vary between studies. This scoping review will collate existing information about how stigma-related research has been conducted in low/middle income countries (LMICs) within the Asia Pacific region, and will compare research designs, sampling frameworks, and measures. Strengths and limitations of these studies will inform recommendations for future stigma-related health research. A methodological framework for scoping studies was applied. Searches of Psych INFO, Scopus, ProQuest, Global Health and PubMed were used to identify articles. Stigma-related research amongst MSM and transgender communities, published between 2010 and 2019 in LMICs within the Asia Pacific region were included. A total of 129 articles based on 123 different studies were included. Of the 129 articles 51.19% (n = 66) were quantitative; 44.96% (n = 57) were qualitative and 3.88% (n = 5) were mixed methods studies. The majority of studies (n = 57; 86.36%) implemented a cross sectional survey. In-depth interviews (n = 20, 34.48%) were also common. Only 3.88% of studies utilized mixed-methods design. Non-probabilistic and probabilistic sampling methods were employed in 99.22 and 0.78% of studies respectively. The most common measures used in quantitative studies were the Center for Epidemiological Study on Depression (CES-D) (n = 18) and the Self Stigma Scale (SSS) (n = 6). Strengths and limitations proposed by researchers included in this review are summarized as lesson learnt and best practices in stigma-related research.

Context

Popularly known as the "Trans Law", it is one of the most controversial projects of the left-wing coalition government. Even within the coalition there are opposing opinions. If the bill is passed, Spain would become the largest European country to allow people to legally change the name and gender on their identity documents without the need for years of hormone therapy or medical diagnosis. This has provoked a great deal of debate and/or strong positioning on the matter, which has also been reflected in social media such as Twitter.

Content

This dataset contains about 1.5 million tweets collected from the social network Twitter around the Spanish Transsexuality Law. The dates range from January 13, 2021 to October 12, 2022. The data will be updated periodically. To get an idea of the data, making a network based on retweets, the number of users or nodes are 257,887 and 738,651 edges.

Inspiration

To link social groups with (discursive) practices around the debate on the Trans Law. To find differences and similarities in the frames used by each community. 1. Describe communities of users by their interactions and their similarities. 2. Find which are the most common frames used in this discussion: 2.a Find the social frameworks and analysis of their discourse: 2.b Obtain word clusters and relate them to the previously obtained frames. 3. Analyze the relationships between frames and communities in order to find: 3.a. Common and specific frames for each community. 3.b. Bridges through the frameworks with communities other than those analyzed. 3.c. Evolution of the social frameworks in time.

The authors would be pleased to know that this dataset has been useful for any research inside or outside Kaggle. Do not hesitate to contact us: Álvaro Martínez García-Salmones: alvaro.martinezgs@gmail.com Héctor Fernández Rodríguez: hectorfr1984@gmail.com

Context

FRA (Fundamental Rights Agency) conducted an online survey to identify how lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people living in the European Union and Croatia experience the fulfilment of their fundamental rights. The evidence produced by the survey will support the development of more effective laws and policies to fight discrimination, violence and harassment, improving equal treatment across society. The need for such an EU-wide survey became evident after the publication in 2009 of the first FRA report on homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity, which highlighted the absence of comparable data. The European Commission then requested FRA to collect comparable data across the EU on this issue. FRA organised the data collection in the form of an online survey covering all EU Member States and Croatia. The respondents were persons aged 18 years and over, who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, anonymously. The survey was made available online, from April to July 2012, in all 23 official EU languages (except Irish) plus Catalan, Croatian, Luxembourgish, Russian and Turkish. In total, 93,079 LGBT persons completed the survey. FRA’s inhouse experts designed the survey which was implemented by Gallup, one of the market leaders in large-scale surveys. In addition, civil society organisations including ILGA-Europe (European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) and Transgender Europe (TGEU) provided advice on how to best approach LGBT people.

More about methodology of the survey can be found in EU LGBT survey Technical report. Methodology, online survey, questionnaire and sample.

Content

Data set consist of 5 .csv files that represent 5 blocks of questions: Daily Life, Discrimination, Violence and Harassment, Rights Awareness, Transgender Specific Questions.

The schema of all the tables is identical:

• CountryCode - name of the country
• subset - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual women, Bisexual men or Transgender (for Transgender Specific Questions table the value is only Transgender)
• question_code - unique code ID for the question
• question_label - full question text
• answer - answer given
• percentage
• notes - [0]: small sample size; [1]: NA due to small sample size; [2]: missing value

Acknowledgements

Main results performed by FRA

Inspiration

Various of questions can be asked: do LGBT people feel safe in countries they live in? Do LGBT people where to go if someone discriminate their rights? Is there work/in-house harassment in against LGBT people?

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