Predicting transphobia among cisgender women and men: The roles of feminist identification and gender conformity

Abstract

Introduction

This study examined feminist identification and conformity to traditional gender norms as predictors of transphobic attitudes.

Method

Data was collected among an online, MTurk sample of 290 adult cisgender women and men.

Results: Feminist beliefs and self-labeling were independently associated with decreased transphobia among cisgender women, but not among cisgender men. Conformity to the masculine norms of heterosexual self-presentation and emotional control were significantly, independently associated with increased transphobia, whereas risk-taking was associated with decreased transphobia. Conformity to the traditional feminine norm of Sexual Fidelity was significantly associated with increased transphobia.

Conclusions

Practical and policy implications are discussed.

Keywords:

• LGBT
• discrimination
• gender identity

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Funding

This research received no external funding.

Ethics statement

All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.