Understanding gender differences in transphobia : cisgender men are the “effect to be explained”
(2024)
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- The evolution of trans* rights in Europe is facing backlash from religious groups, far right-wing organisations and, more surprisingly, feminist movements, in the United Kingdom for example. The arguments used to justify this opposition are centred around binary conceptualisations of sex and gender, associated with beliefs that the evolution of trans* rights might constitute a threat, and that trans* people might be “gender impostors”. The goal of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the opposition to trans* rights, by taking the UK as a case study. Knowing that one of the main determinants of this opposition is negative attitudes toward trans* people, we draw on three different literatures to study gender differences in attitudes toward trans* people and their rights, gender binary beliefs, perception of threat, and perception of impostorism. The results of a meta-analysis and cross-sectional studies suggest that cisgender men are more transphobic, endorse more gender binary beliefs and perceive more threat associated with trans* rights than cisgender women. However, feminists from various movements are supportive of trans* people and their rights. Accordingly, cisgender men seem to be “the effect to be explained” when it comes to transphobia.
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Sarter, E. (2024). Understanding gender differences in transphobia : cisgender men are the “effect to be explained”. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/232325