Folk theories of gender and anti-transgender attitudes: Gender differences and policy preferences.

ABSTRACT: Transgender rights and discrimination against transgender people are growing public policy issues. Theorizing from social, cognitive, and evolutionary psychology suggests that beyond attitudes, discrimination against transgender people may derive from folk theories about what gender is and where it comes from. Transgender identity is met with hostility, in part, because it poses a challenge to the lay view that gender is determined at birth, and based on observable physical and behavioral characteristics. Here, in two pre-registered studies (N = 1323), we asked American adults to indicate the gender of a transgender target who either altered their biology through surgical interventions or altered their outward appearance: to what extent is it their birth-assigned gender or their self-ident

SUBMITTER: Rad MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6936834 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature