LG but Not T: Opposition to Transgender Rights Amidst Gay and Lesbian Acceptance

Burke, Kelsy; Kazyak, Emily; Oliver, Marissa; Valkr, Payton

doi:10.1080/00380253.2023.2167673

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“…Do these average null results mask heterogeneous treatment effects? We might expect respondents' ideology or partisanship to moderate responses to different labels, much as they predict differences in support for groups within the LGBTQ community (Burke et al, 2023). If, for example, liberals responded more positively toward the "LGBTQ" label but conservatives more negatively, we might see overall results close to zero on average.…”

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“…Indeed, the public is often less supportive of transgender rights than LGB rights. Support for laws against anti-transgender discrimination is lower than for those against anti-LGB discrimination, and ratings of transgender people are colder than of LGB people (Burke et al, 2023;Lewis et al, 2017). Research on queer rights is less extensive, but surveys of LGBTQ Americans find that queer respondents face particularly intense discrimination (Worthen, 2023), and tend to hold more radical political views (Rollins and Hirsch, 2003).…”

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Language and LGBTQ Politics: The Effect of Changing Group Labels on Public Attitudes

Jones

2024

American Politics Research

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The labels used to describe sexual and gender minorities in the U.S. have shifted over time and become increasingly inclusive. Movement organizations have changed from describing the “lesbian, gay, and bisexual” (“LGB”) community to adding transgender (“LGBT”) and then also queer (“LGBTQ”) identities. Do these different labels affect public views of the group and support for their rights? I embedded a question wording experiment in a statewide survey, asking respondents about either LGB, LGBT, or LGBTQ people. The labels had no discernible effect on (1) support for requiring businesses to serve the group; nor (2) views of the group’s political leanings. There is no evidence that ideology and partisanship moderated these null effects: liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, were unaffected by the changing designations. This suggests public attitudes are not contingent on how the LGBTQ community is labelled, a finding with implications both for movement organizations and survey researchers.

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Language and LGBTQ Politics: The Effect of Changing Group Labels on Public Attitudes

Jones

2024

American Politics Research

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“…Specifically, our research suggests any attempts to dismantle organizations' gendered policies (such as gendered residence life policies) need also target organizations' heteronormative beliefs about sexuality (and vice versa). Current interventions aimed at dismantling schools' gendered residence life policies mostly emphasize the need to make schools more livable for trans and nonbinary people; and indeed, transphobia is still common (Burke et al 2023) and plays a significant role in opposition to gender-neutral housing (see, e.g., Marine et al 2019). But an additional reason that colleges and universities may be unwilling to depart from their policies of segregating students by gender is that they continue to believe their students are (or should be) heterosexual.…”

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Gendered Organizations as Heterosexualized Organizations: The Case of Housing, Roommate, and Visitation Policies at Christian Colleges and Universities

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Morrison,

Taylor

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Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Gendered organization theory highlights the gendered character of organizations. Recent extensions of gendered organization theory show that gendered organizations are simultaneously racialized, cisgendered, and classed. However, prominent studies in this literature downplay the importance of sexuality to gendered organizations. Building on recent critiques of gendered organization theory, and innovating with the concept of heterosexualized organizations, the authors assess whether some Christian colleges and universities’ heteronormative belief that all students are (or should be) heterosexual is linked to their decision to maintain gendered housing, roommate, and visitation policies. Through logistic regression analyses of residence life policies across 609 Christian colleges and universities, the authors find that schools that maintain bans on so-called homosexual behavior tend to also maintain gendered residence life policies. This suggests that many gendered organizations are also heterosexualized organizations. Our study holds important implications for theories of organizational inequalities, as well as for research on gender, sexuality, and higher education.

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“…Emerging sociological research has sought to ascertain how and why TGNB communities experience inequalities, whether concerning TGNB people’s experiences in religion (Sumerau, Cragun, and Mathers, 2016), education (Coley, 2017), the workplace (Ueno et al, 2020), families and partnerships (Pfeffer, 2017), or medicine (shuster, 2021). Prior research notes how TGNB Americans are exposed to high levels of victimization (Sumerau and Mathers, 2019), mistreatment and harassment (Buchanan and Ikuku, 2021; Miller and Denise, 2015), poverty (Badgett, Choi, and Wilson, 2019), and incarceration (Rogers and Rogers, 2021) relative to their cisgender peers, but have fewer legal protections due to increasing anti-trans politics and legislation in the US (Burke et al, 2023). Findings from the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, for example, indicate almost half (48%) of trans respondents ( N = 27,715) report experiencing unequal treatment, verbal harassment, and/or physical assault (James et al, 2016).…”

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Accounting for Cisnormativity: Understanding Transgender and Non-Binary Young People’s Strategies to Resist and Reduce Inequality in Healthcare

Lampe

2023

Social Currents

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Using in-depth interviews with transgender and non-binary (TGNB) young adults in the Southeastern US, I examine TGNB young people’s healthcare experiences and strategies for resisting and reducing inequality in healthcare settings. My analysis draws on sociological conceptualizations of accountability structures in TGNB healthcare and specifically the conceptualization of cisnormative accountability. In this article, I demonstrate how TGNB patients are held accountable to the institutional and interpersonal maintenance of (a) cisnormativity and (b) the medical model of transgender identity in US healthcare systems. Such instances of cisnormative accountability, regardless of cisgender people’s intentions, contribute to the reproduction of gender inequality among TGNB communities. Further, I explain how TGNB young patients engage in strategies to resist and reduce inequality in healthcare through (a) avoidance of health services and (b) selective disclosure of TGNB identities. I draw out implications for understanding TGNB young people’s strategies to minimize inequality in healthcare, and the consequences cisnormative accountability has for the reproduction of gender inequality.

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LG but Not T: Opposition to Transgender Rights Amidst Gay and Lesbian Acceptance

Cited by 6 publications

References 55 publications

Language and LGBTQ Politics: The Effect of Changing Group Labels on Public Attitudes

Language and LGBTQ Politics: The Effect of Changing Group Labels on Public Attitudes

Gendered Organizations as Heterosexualized Organizations: The Case of Housing, Roommate, and Visitation Policies at Christian Colleges and Universities

Accounting for Cisnormativity: Understanding Transgender and Non-Binary Young People’s Strategies to Resist and Reduce Inequality in Healthcare

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