Heard but not helped

Qualitative interview data. The sample profile for this study was predominately veterans ages 35 to 64. The branches of the military the veterans served in were Army (6), Air Force (5), Navy (3), and Marines (1). The sample size, N=15, consisted of (13) veterans that have or are undergoing gender reassignment from male to female (MTF). Not all the MTF participants had received gender reassignment surgery. Two of the research participants were transitioning their gender from female to male (FTM) and neither had yet undergone gender reassignment surgery. Ten of the participants were employed, (3) were retired, and (2) were unemployed. The level of education varied within the group from no college to doctorate degree.
Audio recordings totaling sixteen hours and thirty-seven minutes provided (295) pages of transcript data for initial coding (see Table 4). Interview duration averaged one hour and six minutes and the average transcript document was 19.67 pages. The longest recorded interview was one hour and thirty-three minutes, and the shortest interview lasted forty-seven minutes and fifty-four seconds.

质性访谈数据。本研究的样本以35至64岁的退伍军人为核心主体。受访退伍军人的服役军种包括陆军6人、空军5人、海军3人及海军陆战队1人。本次研究的样本量为N=15，其中13名为男跨女（MTF）性别重置转型者，并非所有该类参与者均已接受性别重置手术。另有2名研究参与者为女跨男（FTM），且二者均尚未开展性别重置手术。就业状态方面，10名参与者处于在职状态，3名已退休，2名处于失业状态。参与者的教育水平跨度较大，从未接受高等教育直至博士学位不等。
本次研究共收集到总时长16小时37分钟的音频录音，经转写后得到295页转录文本，用于初始编码工作（详见表4）。访谈平均时长为1小时06分钟，单篇转录文本的平均页数为19.67页。时长最长的访谈为1小时33分钟，最短的访谈时长为47分54秒。