Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals face stigmatization from family members
and peers, placing this group at high risk of adverse outcomes including suicidality …

Between 2020 and 2021, one hundred and ten bills in state legislatures across the United
States suggested banning the participation of transgender athletes on sports teams for girls …

What does it take for women to win political office? This book uncovers a gendered
qualifications gap, showing that women need to be significantly more qualified than men to …

Minority groups have long been underrepresented in politics. Support for lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights and the incidence of LGBT candidates have …

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

Beginning in the 1960s, the United States experienced religious and partisan conflict over
cultural issues such as abortion that was described as a “Culture War.” Recent, highly …

Can nativist attitudes condition support for LGBT+ rights? The sustained advance in pro-
LGBT+ attitudes in the West often contrasts with the greening of anti-immigrant sentiment …

The theory of representative bureaucracy posits that citizens will view policy and service
delivery more favorably if public servants share their background characteristics. However …

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 …

An increasingly salient policy innovation pursued by LGBT+ rights groups and socially
liberal policy entrepreneurs is the right of trans people to bring their legally recorded sex in …