Predicting opposition to the civil rights of trans persons in the United Kingdom

Tee, Nicola; Hegarty, Peter

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“…Witten and Eyler (1999), for example, have theorized that negative attitudes towards transgender people are driven by a desire to maintain rigid boundaries between genders, and moreover to enforce the belief that gender is a direct reflection of assigned sex and thus cannot be changed. This is confirmed in the research of Tee and Hegarty (2006), which found that participants who endorsed a traditional, binary, biologically-based model of gender were more likely to oppose granting rights to transgender people.…”

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Gender differences in cisgender psychologists’ and trainees’ attitudes toward transgender people.

Riggs¹,

Sion²

2017

Psychology of Men & Masculinity

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Research that has explored the attitudes of cisgender people toward transgender people has identified gender differences, with cisgender men commonly reporting more negative attitudes than cisgender women. However, little research has explored whether such differences exist among mental health professionals. This brief report outlines findings from 3 studies focusing on attitudes toward transgender people among 3 samples of Australian cisgender psychologists or psychology trainees. The first explored attitudes toward transgender people among psychology undergraduates in an Australian university. The second 2 explored attitudes toward transgender people among Australian mental health-care profession-als (with the specific focus of this brief report being upon participants in each study who were psychologists). The findings from each study suggest that cisgender men reported more negative attitudes than did cisgender women. This brief report concludes by considering the broader context that potentially shapes cisgender men's attitudes and advocates for further research that examines the impact of gender ideology upon attitudes and awareness raising so as to improve service outcomes for transgender people. This is an Author Accepted version of a manuscript published in Psychology of Men andMasculinities.

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“…Tee and Hegarty (2006), for example, explored support for the rights of transgender people amongst a sample of 151 cisgender U.K. participants. They found that women were more likely than men to support the rights of transgender people.…”

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Gender differences in cisgender psychologists’ and trainees’ attitudes toward transgender people.

Riggs¹,

Sion²

2017

Psychology of Men & Masculinity

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“…Previous work consistently found that males were significantly more transphobic than females [7,10,18,20,27,34,35,37,42,43,52,53,56,58], and that male violations from societal gender norms evoke stronger negative reactions than female violations [38,39,49,58]. Baiocco et al [3] observed that females were reported to have a higher percentage of cross-gender best friends than males.…”

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“…Davies and Hudson [12] compared attitudes of heterosexual men and women when considering rape of men and transgender people; they found that men blamed the transgender victims more, and considered rape of a transgender person less severe. Transphobia is also highly correlated with homophobia [42,52], and males tend to also be more homophobic than females [25,31,32,42,57].…”

Section: Transphobia In Malesmentioning

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Which Gender is More Concerned About Transgender Women in Female Bathrooms?

Stones

2016

Gend. Issues

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We enumerate 1035 user comments from 190 online articles to gauge public opinion about safety and privacy when transgender women use female bathrooms. In these comments, we find that cisgender males are around 1.559 as likely to express concern about safety and privacy as cisgender females. Moreover, we find that when expressing concern (a) cisgender females are around 49 as likely as cisgender males to assert that transgender women do not directly cause their safety and privacy concerns, typically emphasizing their concerns are about 'perverts' posing as transgender females, and (b) cisgender males are around 1.59 as likely as cisgender females to assert that transgender females directly cause their safety and privacy concerns. We theorize that the heightened concern seen in males in these comments stems from them being more likely to view transgender females not as females, but as males who are lying or mistaken about their gender, and consequently they view themselves as protecting females from these males intruding into private, female-only spaces. This may be further exacerbated by a fear of deception and a belief that transgender people are mentally ill or 'sick'.

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“…Whilst of course there is a growing body of research on the explicit discrimination that trans people face (e.g., Couch et al, 2008;Whittle et al, 2007), there has to date been less published on how and why such discrimination occurs. Exceptions to this are the development and limited application of a scale designed to measure attitudes toward trans people amongst the general population (Hill and Willoughby, 2005), a UK study of attitudes towards trans people (Tee and Hegarty, 2006) and some discursive research on the gatekeeping of medical support in transitioning amongst psychiatrists (Speer, 2006). This 3 paper seeks to contribute to this burgeoning latter body of research by analysing one particular instance of discrimination against one trans person: an interview with trans man Thomas Beatie conducted by Oprah Winfrey.…”

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What makes a man? Thomas Beatie, embodiment, and ‘mundane transphobia’

Riggs

2014

Feminism & Psychology

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Critical scholars have long examined the ways in which identity categories are forcibly written upon bodies through the functioning of social norms. For many marginalized groups, such critiques have been central to challenging pathologising understandings of identity categories, often by uncoupling bodies from identities. Yet despite this, normative accounts of embodiment are still forcibly written upon the bodies of many groups of people, albeit often in mundane ways. Nowhere is this perhaps more evident than in the lives of trans people. This paper explores one instance of this by examining in close detail some of the key discursive strategies deployed by Oprah Winfrey in her first interview with Thomas Beatie. It is argued that Beatie is constantly drawn into a logic of 'bodily evidence' that demands of him an aetiological account of himself as a man, and from which, Winfrey concludes, he is always left lacking.Keywords transphobia, rhetorical analysis, discrimination, gender normativity, masculinity This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Feminism and Psychology, Copyright Sage, DOI: 10.1177/0959353514526221 2 There now exists a considerable body of attitudinal research examining beliefs about lesbians and gay men held amongst the general population (see chapters in Pardie and Luchetta, 1999, for a summary). There also exists a considerable body of discursive research that has mapped the ways in which discrimination against lesbians and gay men occurs in everyday interactions, and the particular rhetorical devices that are deployed to this end (see, for example, Land and Kitzinger, 2005;Speer and Potter, 2000). An excellent example of such discursive research appears in the work of Elizabeth Peel (2001), who coined the term 'mundane heterosexism' to refer to the commonplace (though no less violent) ways in which discrimination against lesbians and gay men often passes by under the guise of humour or claims to liberalism. A second important example of research in the discursive tradition is provided by Virginia Braun (2000), who suggests that heterosexism can occur either by commission (the explicit voicing of heterosexist comments) or by omission (the failure to challenge heterosexism).Yet whilst these bodies of research (attitudinal and discursive) have contributed much to our knowledge of discrimination against lesbians and gay men, they have not yet contributed as much to our understanding of the general population's attitudes towards trans people, or the everyday ways in which discrimination against trans people occurs in conversation. Whilst of course there is a growing body of research on the explicit discrimination that trans people face (e.g., Couch et al., 2008;Whittle et al., 2007), there has to date been less published on how and why such discrimination occurs. Exceptions to this are the development and limited application of a scale designed to measure attitudes toward trans people amongst the general population (Hill and Willoughby, 2005), a UK study of attitud...

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Predicting opposition to the civil rights of trans persons in the United Kingdom

Cited by 123 publications

References 25 publications

Gender differences in cisgender psychologists’ and trainees’ attitudes toward transgender people.

Gender differences in cisgender psychologists’ and trainees’ attitudes toward transgender people.

Which Gender is More Concerned About Transgender Women in Female Bathrooms?

What makes a man? Thomas Beatie, embodiment, and ‘mundane transphobia’

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