We explore how gender, attitudes about traditional gender roles, and threats to masculinity
and femininity affect US participants' support for transgender rights. First, we present …

Transgender people face an uncertain legal climate, and efforts to include gender identity in
policies have been met with both successes and failures. These policies are often …

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 …

Few public opinion surveys addressed transgender rights prior to 2015, but scholarly
attention to these issues began to proliferate with a series of surveys from 2015 and 2016 …

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 …

Negativity toward gay men and transgender people is pervasive. Past research suggests
that authoritarianism predicts biases against transgender people, in part due to an …

Transgender identity inherently involves body politics, specifically how transgender people
may physically represent gender in ways that do not match their assigned sex at birth and …

This study adds to the emerging literature explaining public opinion toward transgender
rights by demonstrating the importance of elite cues for such an opinion. Data from two cross …

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 …

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 …