Attitudes / Perception / Awareness Content Topic Results

This technical assistance resource from the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape provides statistics on sexual assault in trans communities, addresses the lack of trans-specific services and barriers that transgender individuals may face in accessing services, and provides guidance for advocates.

In this TED Talk, Colin Strokes shares personal anecdotes about the role of media in shaping young boys' perceptions of manhood.

This Applied Research paper reviews available evidence on the effectiveness of gender violence prevention programs on college campuses, explores various models of campus-based prevention programming, and discusses the implications of emerging themes from the literature for practice.

This study provides empirical data on cases of officer-involved domestic violence (OIDV). It identifies and describes cases in which police were arrested for criminal offenses associated with an incident of family and/or domestic violence through a content analysis of published newspaper articles. The study includes a discussion regarding OIDV police crime and policy implications.

This report examines how engagement applies within the cultural contexts of Asian men and their communities.

This public resolution sponsored by the White House’s Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS highlights the disproportionate impact of HIV on transgender communities and outlines the White House plan to funnel more funding into researching HIV in those communities, providing prevention activities and life-saving, culturally competent care.

This is the final report from the NSVRCs three year National Prevention Strengths and Needs Assessment Project, and provides a summary of the work completed during the third year of the assessment as well as a synthesis of major themes across the three year project.  The major activities of the Year 3 assessment were the completion of a national survey comparison of findings to the Year 1 survey.

Religious traditions and beliefs can influence masculinity with their dominant stories of what a man's role should be in his home, community, and religious institution. If religious leaders can create environments for healthy dialogue and allow men to express themselves comfortably without using traditional gender role assignments, healthy masculinity and faith can beneficially support one another.

The documentary With Impunity: Men & Gender Violence, examines realities and options for ending violence against women. The beliefs about manhood that allow men to exploit and use violence against women are ingrained in our culture. Impunity engages the thinking of leading historians, sociologists and practitioners to examine our past, cultural realities and options for ending gender-based violence.

This video is a resource geared to fire and emergency medical services providers discussing patient (trafficked individual) recognition indicators.

The term "master status" was first used by Everett Hughes in the 1940s to describe the tendency of observers to believe that one label or demographic category is more significant than any other aspect of [the observed persons] background, behavior, or performance. When applied to transgender people, master status refers to assuming that everything about a transgender person must be related to their gender.

This article addresses the issue of domestic violence against trans women and examines some of the factors that make trans women particularly and uniquely vulnerable.