Ngakane, Mpho Sharni2025-08-122024Ngakane, Mpho Sharni . (2024). Transgender Identifying People’s Appraisals of Gender- Based Violence & Continuous Traumatic Stress [Master`s dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WIReDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/45823https://hdl.handle.net/10539/45823A research report submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology by combination of coursework and research, In the Faculty of Humanities, School of Human and Community Development, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2024This study aims to explore and understand how transgender people who are at risk of GBV-related continuous traumatic stress experience gender discrimination & traumatic stress and how they appraise this risk. Participants were recruited through purposive snowball sampling techniques. Six transgender participants were interviewed, and the results were interpreted through interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA). This analysis found a superordinate theme of Otherness, with subthemes being the other (social deviance and intersectionality), CTS (exclusion and violence), liminality (in/visibility and intrusion), and responses to GBV (maladaptive and adaptive).en© 2024 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.UCTDViolenceTraumaTransgenderQueerInterpretive Phenomenological AnalysisIntersectionalityLiminalityOthernessDissertationUniversity of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSDG-5: Gender equality