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. 2026 Jan 16;16:1732197. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1732197

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Flowchart illustrating the overarching theme called enduring loss and hope. Within this sits three connected themes: investment, support, and meaning-making. Each theme contains specific issues such as emotional, time and financial investment; invisibility, safety, exclusion and marginalisation; queer bodies, stigma and shame, and re-writing the future. Spanning across all themes is an arrow to depict that all themes are shaped by the consequences of cisheteronormativity. — Thematic synthesis map.