Attitudes Toward Transgender Men and Women: Development and Validation of a New Measure

Billard, Thomas J

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00387

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“…Transgender is a general term in which people living their daily lives feel and live as the opposite gender to the one associated with the sex assigned to them at birth (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2019). The term "transgender" refers to a wide range of social identities and gender presentations (Billard, 2018). In a study conducted in the United States, transgender people were classified into three groups: (1) people who were assigned as men at birth who felt they were women, (2) people who were assigned as women at birth who felt they were men, and (3) those who did not identify as men or women (Factor and Rothblum, 2008).…”

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Improvement in Gender and Transgender Knowledge in University Students Through the Creative Factory Methodology

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In Spain, Social Educators, similar to both social workers and educators in the United States, help coordinate social change through educational interventions and mobilization of social groups to benefit marginalized people and overall societal welfare. They are trained to work with diverse populations, and it is important that they have awareness and training on gender and transgender issues given the extensive discrimination that transgender people endue. Research has begun to identify the important role that knowledge and attitudes of health and educational professionals may play in providing a supportive, healing context to combat the harmful effects of this discrimination and how educational trainings may foster improved knowledge and attitudes in helping professions. This study describes a program to improve knowledge and positive attitudes toward gender and especially transgender people in university students who study Social Education. The researchers measured knowledge and attitudes toward gender and transgender people issues of 64 students before and after receiving a 4-month interactive training. They used the Short Form of the Genderism and Transphobia Scale, a 12-item scale of transphobia and gender ideology variables. The researchers also asked participants about their knowledge of gender and transgender issues before and after training. The methodological experience "Creative Factory" was employed as an interactive training program. The main goal of this methodology is to enable students in a formative context to analyze social realities to generate discussion and innovate ideas to design successful practices. After 4 months of training with a weekly session on gender and transgender learning, students showed improvements in knowledge and attitudes toward both gender and transgender people. Specifically, students demonstrated more knowledge about gender and transgender issues and more positive attitudes toward transgender people. The study demonstrates that training in gender education using the Creative Factory methodology improved knowledge and attitudes in students.

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“…AsBillard (2018) says, so far, there are six published scales for measuring attitudes toward transgender people: the Gender and Transphobia Scale (GTS;Hill and Willoughby, 2005), Transphobia Scale (TS;Nagoshi et al, 2008), Transgender Attitudes Scale (ATTI; Walch et al, 2012), Transgender Attitudes and Beliefs Scale (TABS; Kanamori et al, 2017), Transgender…”

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“…Transgender identity is an umbrella term that refers to a person who feels and lives as the opposite of the gender associated with the sex they were assigned at birth (transgender men and transgender women). The term transgender may refer to a wide range of social identities and gender presentations [1].…”

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Measuring Discrimination Against Transgender People at the University of the Basque Country and in a Non-University Sample in Spain

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Jiménez-Etxebarria

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Transgender people suffer from others’ negative attitudes in many situations. The university context is one environment where further progress has to be made to ensure the inclusion of transgender people. In this study, a sample of 376 undergraduate students was collected and their attitudes towards transgender people were analyzed. A comparison was made between number of years in university, and a sample from the general public. In addition, comparisons were made by gender, since the literature shows more negative attitudes toward transgender people in men than in women. The results show relatively positive attitudes toward transgender people among higher education students, but they have little knowledge of transgender identity. In turn, researchers found significant differences between different years in the university and between genders. These results support the need to expand knowledge about transgender people in the university environment.

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“…It must be noted that, in the present study, participants responded to a measure that assessed antitrans attitudes in general, not taking into account that participants might respond differently to transgender men as compared transgender women. Worthen (2013) and Billard (2018) have suggested that future studies should reconsider measuring transgender individuals as one group because the transgender community encompasses a variety of identities. Therefore, we recommend that additional research could explore why cisgender persons might judge being transgender differently depending upon the perceived gender identity of the transgender person.…”

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Attitudes Toward Transgender Men and Women: Development and Validation of a New Measure

Cited by 71 publications

References 37 publications

Improvement in Gender and Transgender Knowledge in University Students Through the Creative Factory Methodology

Improvement in Gender and Transgender Knowledge in University Students Through the Creative Factory Methodology

Measuring Discrimination Against Transgender People at the University of the Basque Country and in a Non-University Sample in Spain

Professors’ Research Expectations for Admission to Psychology Graduate Programs

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