Level of Sexual Stigma Among Transgender Students in Chiang Mai

Abstract

The academic article "Level of Sexual Stigma Among Transgender Students in Chiang Mai", aims to study the sexual stigma of transgender students in school. It points to the situation
of sexual stigmatization of transgender student in schools, as well as understanding the difficulties and stigma that swarms of
transgender students would confront. This is described by the level of stigma in the level of the guidelines for gender assignments based on the concept of Link et al (1987) in this study, namely; (1) structural stigma; which includes the norms of society and institutional policies that hinder access to the resources of the stigma group, (2) interpersonal stigma; refers to patterns directly formed by stigma, such as verbal harassment, physical violence,
and sexual assault due to gender identity or sexual expression, and (3) individual stigma; refers to the feelings of a person who is
self-concerned, or the idea of beliefs that other people have about him. The study also found that sexual stigma puts transgender
students in a state of powerlessness to choose and make decisions about their sexuality. Transgender student groups are pushed into