Winterowd, CarrieScaer, Audrey2025-01-222025-01-222024-07https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14446/345828The purpose of the present study is to explore aspects of body talk among transgender and gender expansive (TGE) individuals in relation to gender dysphoria, external triggers of gender dysphoria, body dissatisfaction, and disordered eating. Body talk refers to what people share with others about their body (Lin et al., 2021). No previous researchers have explored body talk among TGE individuals. In this study, 139 TGE individuals completed an online survey, including the Body Talk Scale (Lin et al., 2020), the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (Fairburn & Bergin, 1994), the Utrecht Gender Dysphoria Scale – Gender Spectrum (McGuire et al., 2020), the Gender Dysphoria Triggers Scale (Goldbach & Knutson, 2021, and the Body Image Scale – Gender Spectrum (Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, n.d.). Correlational and multiple regression analyses were utilized. More negative fat talk and less positive body talk were found to be related to and predictive of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating among TGE individuals. Implications for practice include exploring body talk experiences with TGE clients if they are struggling with body satisfaction or disordered eating. It is recommended that future researchers explore aspects of body talk in relation to other gender minority stressors and resiliency factors among TGE individuals.application/pdfCopyright is held by the author who has granted the Oklahoma State University Library the non-exclusive right to share this material in its institutional repository. Contact Digital Library Services at lib-dls@okstate.edu or 405-744-9161 for the permission policy on the use, reproduction or distribution of this material.Dissertationbody dissatisfactionbody talkdisordered eatinggender dysphoriagender expansivetransgender