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More About the TTFN Project

TTFN Longitudinal Study

The TTFN Project began with a 2-year longitudinal mixed methods study of transgender and nonbinary teens and their families. 

TTFN Intervention Development

Based on findings from the TTFN Longitudinal Study, the team created the TTFN Conversation Toolkit, an online toolkit to support families with transgender and nonbinary teens in having conversations about the teen’s gender identity. The team pilot tested the toolkit with transgender and nonbinary teens and their families. 

Research Summaries

Our team is committed to sharing findings from our research with community members through brief non-academic summaries of the academic papers we've published.

Academic Articles

We have published many academic journal articles using data from the TTFN Project. If you would like to read any of the papers listed below and do not have access, please contact us with the paper title and we can send you the PDF.

We have additional articles in progress so please check back.

(From Newest to Oldest)

1. Godwin EG, Moore LBM, Katz-Wise SL. “You always worry about what other people think”: Experiences of anti-trans stigma among trans youth and their siblings in the northeastern US. Stigma and Health. 2024. Advance online publication. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/sah0000564 

2. Katz-Wise SL, Godwin EG, Medzhitova Y, Moore LBM, Parsa N, Hill A, Oparah N, Bogart LM, Rosal MC, Pullen Sansfaçon A, Ehrensaft D, MacNish Nishman M, Austin SB. Development of a family-level intervention for families with transgender and/or nonbinary youth: Lessons and recommendations. Journal of Family Psychology. 2024. Advance online publication. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/fam0001262 

3. Budge SL, Wachter E, Barburoğlu Y, Gao S, Dvorak D, Elliott G, Gilchrist S, Godwin EG, Katz-Wise SL. A longitudinal investigation of trans and nonbinary youth identity: individual processes and family agreement in the Trans Teen and Family Narratives Study. LGBTQ+ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/27703371.2024.2357560 

4. Godwin EG, Moore LM, Sansfaçon AP, Nishman MM, Rosal MC, Katz-Wise SL. Experiences of cisgender youth with a transgender and/or nonbinary sibling. Family Process. 2024; 63: 1025-1045. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12957 

5. Katz-Wise SL, Sarda V, Line EC, Marchwinski B, Budge SL, Godwin EG, Moore LBM, Ehrensaft D, Rosal MC, Thomson KA. Longitudinal family functioning and mental health in transgender and nonbinary youth and their families. Journal of Child and Family Studies. 2024; 33: 1321-1335. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-023-02738-2 

6. Katz-Wise SL, Godwin EG, Parsa N, Brown CA, Pullen Sansfaçon A, Goldman R, MacNish M, Rosal MC, Austin SB. Using family and ecological systems approaches to conceptualize family and community-based experiences of transgender and/or nonbinary youth from the Trans Teen and Family Narratives Project. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. 2022; 9: 21-36. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000442 

7. Pletta DR, Kant JD, Ehrensaft D, MacNish M, Cahill S, Katz-Wise SL. The 2016 United States presidential election’s impact on families with transgender adolescents in New England. Journal of Family Psychology. 2022; 36, 23-34. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000873

8. Garcia Saiz E, Sarda V, Pletta DR, Reisner SL, Katz-Wise SL. Family functioning as a protective factor for sexual risk behaviors among gender minority adolescents. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 2021; 50: 3023-3033. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02079-5

9. Katz-Wise SL, Sarda V, Austin SB, Harris SK. Longitudinal effects of gender minority stressors on substance use and related risk and protective factors among gender minority adolescents. PLOS ONE. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250500 

10. Stark B, Nagle SA, Hunter A, Charlton BM, Katz-Wise SL. Family building desires among transgender and gender expansive adolescents: A longitudinal family-level analysis. International Journal of Transgender Health. 2021; 22: 425-439. https://doi.org/10.1080/26895269.2021.1896410

11. Katz-Wise SL, Pullen Sansfaçon A, Bogart LM, Rosal MC, Ehrensaft D, Goldman RE, Austin SB. Lessons from a community-based participatory research study with transgender and gender nonconforming youth and their families. Action Research. 2019; 17: 186-207. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476750318818875 

12. Katz-Wise SL, Ehrensaft D, Vetters R, Forcier M, Austin SB. Family functioning and mental health of transgender and gender nonconforming youth in the Trans Teen and Family Narratives Project. Journal of Sex Research. 2018; 55: 582-590. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2017.1415291