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They endure persistent social marginalisation, harsh discrimination and violence in both public and private settings. Gender-related discrimination, victimisation, rejection, non-affirmation, internalised transphobia, negative expectations and non-disclosure have been linked with mental health problems among LGBT people throughout the world.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study used a quantitative research method with a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical design to study the LGBT population in the Kathmandu Valley. The standard tools, Gender Minority and Stress Resilience Measure and Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) were used to collect the data of 115 LGBT people through snowball sampling. The collected data were entered and analysed using SPSS IBM V.22.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Result<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The participants in the study reported experiencing normal, mild, moderate, severe and extremely severe forms of stress (68.7%), anxiety (81.7%) and depression (82.6%) based on DASS-21 severity classification (normal, mild, moderate, severe and extremely severe). The research shows that more than 78% LGBT people faced gender-related discrimination, more than 87% LGBT people faced gender-related rejection and 94.8% faced gender-related victimisation at some point in their lives. The binary and multiple logistic regression analysis found that internalised transphobia is significantly associated with increased odds of stress (adjusted OR (AOR)=2.79, 95%\u2009CI 1.14 to 6.83, p=0.024). Similarly, experiencing discrimination (AOR=3.83, 95%\u2009CI 1.415 to 10.346, p=0.01), rejection (AOR=4.610, 95%\u2009CI 1.129 to 18.818, p=0.033) and stigmatisation (AOR=8.907, 95%\u2009CI 0.894 to 88.756, p=0.062) is significantly associated with anxiety. Additionally, experiencing rejection (AOR=6.081, p=0.010, 95% CI 1.541 to 23.992) and stigmatisation (AOR=5.113, p=0.009, 95% CI 1.506 to 17.366) is significantly associated with increased odds of depression.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Based on the results of this research, it can be concluded that a high percentage of LGBT individuals experience stress, anxiety and depression, and it is associated with gender-related discrimination, rejection, victimisation and internalised transphobia.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjph-2025-004307","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,23]],"date-time":"2026-09-23T16:05:20Z","timestamp":1790179520000},"page":"e004307","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Mental health status of LGBT in Kathmandu, Nepal and the role of victimisation, discrimination, connectedness and identity affirmation: a cross-sectional study"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"4","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-0805-4048","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Puja","family":"Bisunke","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health, Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal"},{"name":"Psychology, Tribhuvan University\u2014Trichandra Multiple Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3926-8912","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Laxmi","family":"Gautam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health, Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-5352-6244","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bikash Bahadur","family":"Bist","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Central Department of Public Health, Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine, Maharajganj, Nepal"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"2026092309051346000_4.3.e004307.1","unstructured":"University of California San Francisco, Lesbian G, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center . 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