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Report
Transgender Prejudice Reduction and Opinions on Transgender Rights
Results from a mediation analysis on experimental data
May 2018
This study uses a survey experiment to examine the causal mechanism between prejudice reduction–the lowering of negative attitudes and phobias toward marginalized groups–and support for transgender rights. It was published in Research & Politics in March 2018.
Highlights
Transphobia is an emotional dislike of people whose gender identity or expression differs from assumptions of their sex assigned at birth.
Reducing transphobia increases an individual’s support for the equality and legal protection of transgender people.
Exposure to images and information about transgender people helped reduce transphobia.