Brief social contact-based videos effectively reduced adolescent transphobia and depression-related stigma, according to results of a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Network Open.
“Social contact with [transgender and gender-diverse] individuals has been shown to improve attitudes and reduce transphobia, but no study to date has examined the efficacy of a brief video intervention in changing the perceptions of general-population youth toward [transgender and gender-diverse] people,” Doron Amsalem, MD, of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and department of