Weinrich J, Grant L, Atkinson J, Richman D, Spector S, McCutchan J; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1989 Jun 4-9; 5: 740 (abstract no. T.D.P.79).
University of California, San Diego, USA
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether childhood gender nonconformity (CGN, an important variable in gender identity research) is of value in AIDS research. The central hypothesis is that homosexual men with high CGN become disproportionately seropositive for HIV-1, largely due to high levels of receptive anal intercourse (figure above). TABULAR DATA, SEE ABSTRACT VOLUME. METHODS: N = 72 homosexual men have been recruited (23 seronegative and 49 seropositive), and completed the Clarke Feminine Gender Identity Scale (FGI). A one-way ANOVA correlated seropositivity with FGI scores. Additional analyses used scoring variations. RESULTS: FGI scores differ significantly by seropositivity status (figure below). (F = 6.65, df = 71, p less than 0.012; Fisher PLSD = 2.41, Scheffe F-test = 6.65, p less than 0.05). All except one of the men with the highest FGI scores were seropositive. CONCLUSIONS: The association between FGI and seropositivity is so strong at the high end of the FGI distribution that it might not arise merely by way of the hypothesized intermediate variable. Personality variables as well as behavioral ones may be required. Additional analyses will be reported at the meeting that suggest that FGI may be a good surrogate for receptive anal intercourse experience, and might to some extent mitigate the underreporting of such experience in direct questions. Implications for medicine and sexology will be discussed. TABULAR DATA, SEE ABSTRACT VOLUME.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Female
- Gender Identity
- HIV Seropositivity
- HIV-1
- Homosexuality
- Humans
- Male
- Sex
Other ID:
UI: 102179794
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