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Table 2 Keywords and controlled terms used in search strategy for a systematic review of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression change efforts

From: The scope and nature of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression change efforts: a systematic review protocol

SOGIECE-related concept

SOGIECE keyword search terms (combined using OR Boolean)*

SGM keyword search terms (combined using OR Boolean)*

SGM indexed search terms

Set A: concept of “conversion”

“conversion therap*”

“conversion effort*”

“conversion practice*”

Bisexual*

homosexual*

“men who have sex with men”

sexual orient*

“women who have sex with women”

sexual minorit*

(gay* or lesbian*)

(GLB* or LGB*)

queer*

two spirit

(nonheterosexual* or non-heterosexual*)

transgender*

“gender divers*”

“gender creative”

(non-binary AND gender)

genderqueer

genderfluid

“trans wom*”

“trans m*”

transwom*

transm*

“gender affirmation”

(mtf or ftm)

(transfeminine or transmasculine)

“sex* reassignment”

(gender identity disorder or GID)

transsex*

transex*

gender dysphori*

exp *bisexuality/

exp *homosexuality/

exp *“Sexual and Gender Minorities”/

exp *“Transgender Persons”/

Set B: concept of “repair”

“reparative therap*”

“reparative effort *”

“reparative practice *”

Set C: concept of “reorientation”

“reorientation therap*”

“sexual reorientation”

“gender reorientation”

“gender identity reorientation”

Set D: concept of “change efforts”

“sexual orientation change”

“gender identity change”

“gender expression change”

“psychological attempts to change a person’s gender identity from transgender to cisgender”

PACGI

Set E: others

“ex-gay”

“gender acceptance therap*”

“reintegrative therap*”

“gay cure therap*”

“sexual attraction fluidity exploration”

  1. Note: SOGIECE sexual orientation and gender identity and expression change efforts, SGM sexual and gender minorities
  2. *Two sets to be combined using AND Boolean, to improve specificity