How cisgender people define “transgender” is associated with attitudes toward transgender people

AK Reiman, TS Ocasio, JL Mezzapelle - Archives of sexual behavior, 2023 - Springer
Prior work suggests that some cisgender people do not consider gender identity when
thinking about what being transgender means, and that exposure to a definition of …

What does transgender mean to you? Transgender definitions and attitudes toward trans people.

VN Anderson - Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
In a partial replication and extension of Buck's (2016) study, we examined lay people's
definitions of transgender and how those definitions are associated with attitudes toward …

Gender nonconformity is perceived differently for cisgender and transgender targets

KA Broussard, RH Warner - Sex Roles, 2019 - Springer
The present research examined the role gender non-conformity plays in attitudes toward
transgender people. Study 1 with 232 US college students focused on attitudes toward …

Defining transgender: What do lay definitions say about prejudice?

DM Buck - Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
The word transgender can serve as an umbrella term, encompassing a wide array of
identities. However, those opposed to transgender rights seem to narrowly conceptualize …

Heterosexuals' attitudes toward transgender people: Findings from a national probability sample of US adults

AT Norton, GM Herek - Sex roles, 2013 - Springer
Using data from a national probability sample of heterosexual US adults (N= 2,281), the
present study describes the distribution and correlates of men's and women's attitudes …

Cultural and personally endorsed stereotypes of transgender men and transgender women: Notable correspondence or disjunction?

SB Gazzola, MA Morrison - International Journal of …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
To date, the content of stereotypic beliefs about transgender women and men has received
limited empirical scrutiny. To address this omission, 2 studies were conducted. Study 1 …

Americans' perceptions of transgender people's sex: Evidence from a national survey experiment

L Doan, N Quadlin, B Powell - Socius, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing on the first national survey experiment of its kind (n= 3,922), the authors examine
Americans' perceptions of transgender people's sex and the factors that underlie these …

An examination of the predictors of attitudes toward transgender individuals

EE Claman - 2008 - rave.ohiolink.edu
Because of the dominant societal paradigm of gender as a binary construct, the emerging
visibility of the transgender population (including transsexuals and cross-dressers) remains …

Individual difference predictors of transgender beliefs: Expanding our conceptualization of conservatism

BJ Rye, OA Merritt, D Straatsma - Personality and Individual Differences, 2019 - Elsevier
With grounding in the Integrated Threat Theory of Prejudice, we explore individual difference
predictors of attitudes toward transgender people. In particular, we measure general and …

Comparing implicit and explicit attitudes of gay, straight, and non-monosexual groups toward transmen and transwomen

TTS Wang-Jones, AO Hauson… - International Journal …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Transphobia studies have typically relied on self-report measures from
heterosexual samples. However, there is evidence suggesting the need to use indirect …