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Celebrating Pride while fighting Trump’s anti-LGBTQ policies
Phil Hammack, professor of psychology & director of the Sexual & Gender Diversity Lab at UC Santa Cruz, discusses how LGBTQ+ communities are celebrating and fighting back against the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQ policies.
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Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field
Amid the prospect of both gay and trans people’s erasure from the nation’s research priorities, 30 editors of leading journals that focus on sex and gender research published an editorial last month in The Journal of Sex Research on this work’s importance, NBC reported. UC Santa Cruz Psychology Professor Phillip Hammack coauthored the editorial in his role…
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Exploring gender roles in 2024, from ‘girlboss’ to ‘trad wife’
UC Santa Cruz gender and sexual identity diversity expert Dr. Phillip Hammack joined Detroit Public Radio to discuss how gender roles have shifted in the past decade. Hammack said that new labels popularized on social media show that "ideas around how to be a woman, how to inhabit your gender, have now opened up, and…
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Researchers explain social media’s role in rapidly shifting social norms on gender and sexuality
A new paper by UC Santa Cruz psychologists describes how social media has supported an explosion of diversity in gender and sexuality in America by empowering authentic self-expression. However, these technologies have also equally enabled a cultural backlash.
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Gen Z doesn't want to use your labels to define their sexuality
Psychology Professor Phil Hammack spoke with Business Insider about trends in gender and sexual identity among Gen Z.
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Supportive environment does little for LGBTQ youth mental health
Psychology Professsor Phil Hammack's research on LGBTQ mental health in different types of communities across California was featured in a Los Angeles Blade article.
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Locally supportive climates may do little to aid mental health for LGBTQ+ youth amidst broader societal stigma
New research shows little difference in mental health outcomes for LGBTQ+ youth between some of California’s most and least supportive communities for sexual and gender diversity. The findings also indicate factors that may contribute to this trend.
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Report Reveals Sharp Rise in Transgender Young People in the U.S.
Psychology Professor Phillip Hammack was interviewed by The New York Times about diversity in gender identity among teens.
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Queer youth are embracing a flood of labels, from 'aceflux' to 'xenogender.' Here's why.
Yahoo Life interviewed Psychology Professor Phil Hammack about the diverse ways that teens are describing their gender and sexuality.
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Kyle is transgender. It took 30 years and a pandemic for them to realize it.
The Washington Post interviewed Psychology Professor Phil Hammack for a story about how the pandemic may have affected expression of gender identity.
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How COVID-19 Challenged Us to Rewrite Our Life Stories
Psychology Professor Phil Hammack wrote an article for Psychology Today about the types of personal growth people may have undergone during the pandemic.
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Putting the B in LGBTQ
Psychology Professor Phil Hammack, director of the sexual and gender diversity laboratory at UC Santa Cruz, joined NPR's 1A program to discuss bisexual identities and visibility.