Table 4.

Hierarchical multiple regression (N = 330)

	Step 1a			Step 2b			Step 3: (Model 1)c			Step 3: (Model 2)d
	b [95% CI]	β	p	b [95% CI]	β	p	b [95% CI]	β	p	b [95% CI]	β	p
Gender	−1.57 [−4.58, 1.45]	−0.06	0.31	−1.77 [−4.66, 1.13]	−0.07	0.23	−1.39 [−4.22, 1.43]	−0.06	0.33	−1.75 [−4.55, 1.06]	−0.07	0.22
Age	−0.12 [−0.24, 0.01]	−0.13	0.06	−0.09 [−0.20, 0.03]	−0.10	0.14	−0.06 [−0.18, 0.06]	−0.07	0.30	−0.08 [−0.20, 0.03]	−0.09	0.16
Race/ethnicity	1.07 [−2.07, 4.20]	0.04	0.51	1.66 [−1.36, 4.68]	0.07	0.28	0.96 [−1.99, 3.91]	0.04	052	1.5 [−1.47, 4.47]	0.06	0.32
Educational attainment	−0.6 [−2.05, 0.85]	−0.05	0.42	−0.69 [−2.08, 0.70]	−0.06	0.33	−0.86 [−2.23, 0.50]	−0.08	0.21	−0.68 [−2.03, 0.68]	−0.06	0.33
Married	−0.65 [−5.24, 3.93]	−0.02	0.78	−0.82 [−5.22, 3.58]	−0.02	0.71	−0.75 [−5.02, 3.53]	−0.02	0.73	−0.87 [−5.15, 3.40]	−0.02	0.69
Employed	−2.54 [−5.92, 0.84]	−0.10	0.14	−2.22 [−5.46, 1.03]	−0.08	0.18	−2.60 [−5.83, 0.62]	−0.01	0.11	−2.50 [−5.7, 0.70]	−0.1	0.13
Student	0.36 [−3.81, 4.53]	0.01	0.87	0.58 [−3.42, 4.59]	0.02	0.77	−0.16 [−4.1, 3.8]	−0.01	0.94	0.22 [−3.68, 4.12]	0.01	0.91
Income	−0.11 [−0.73, 0.51]	−0.02	0.73	0.09 [−0.51, 0.68]	0.02	0.78	0.23 [−0.36, 0.81]	0.05	0.44	0.22 [−0.37, 0.80]	0.05	0.47
Gender-related discrimination				1.42 [0.89, 1.96]	0.29 ***	<.001	1.07 [0.53, 1.61]	0.22 ***	<.001	1.08 [0.54, 1.62]	0.22***	<.001
Family support							−1.41 [−2.15, −0.67]	−0.21 ***	<.001	−1.33 [−2.06, −0.60]	−0.2***	<.001
Transgender community connectedness							−0.9 [−2.02, 0.22]	−0.09	0.11	−0.90 [−2.02, 0.21]	−0.09	0.11
Gender literacy							1.58 [0.15, 3.01]	0.13*	0.03	–––	–––
Transgender activism							–––	–––		1.08 [0.16, 2.00]	0.13*	0.02

^*p < .05

^**p < .01

^***p < .001

Dependent variable: Psychological distress as measured by the BSI-GSI (raw score).

Covariates: current gender identity (transfeminine/transmasculine); age (continuous variable); race/ethnicity (white/non-white); educational attainment (continuous variable); currently married (yes/no); currently employed (yes/no); currently a student (yes/no); annual household income (continuous variable).

^aStep 1: R² = .04 (Adjusted R² = .02), F(8,303) = 1.68, p = 0.10

^bStep 2: R² = .12 (Adjusted R² = .10), F(9,302) = 4.68, p < .001

^cStep 3. Model 1 (Including gender literacy but not transgender activism): R² = .18 (Adjusted R² = .15), F(12,299) = 5.46, p < .001

^dStep 3. Model 2 (Including transgender activism but not gender literacy): R² = .18, (Adjusted R² = .15), F(12,299) = 5.52, p < .001