Has There Been a Transgender Tipping Point? Gender Identification Differences in U.S. Cohorts Born between 1935 and 2001

Lagos, Danya

doi:10.1086/719714

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“…In the early 1990s, gay rights activists in Western societies began to frame homosexuality as an intrinsic identity akin to race or nativity and hence worthy of acceptance (Overby 2014;Sheldon et al 2007;Waidzunas 2015;Walters 2014;Wilkinson 2014;Wood and Bartkowski 2004). Activists strategically deployed essentialized conceptions of gay identity to counter the belief in many quarters that same-sex attraction is unnatural and corrigible (Diamond and Rosky 2016;Lagos 2022;Waidzunas 2015;Walters 2014). In the United States, younger cohorts tend to analogize homosexuality with race (Hart-Brinson 2016), and a slight majority of Americans now believe that being gay or lesbian is a trait someone has from birth (Saad 2018).…”

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Don’t You Be My Neighbor! Perceptions of Homosexuality in Global Cross-Cultural Perspective, 1990 to 2019

Cole

Geist

2023

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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The Authors draw on cognitive sociology and attribution theory to infer whether people classify homosexuality as an identity or a behavior. Using six waves of World Values Survey data covering 85 countries, the authors conduct factor and multilevel regression analyses to examine patterns of intolerance toward gay people alongside racialized groups, immigrants, and users of alcohol or illicit substances, in the context of who constitutes an undesirable neighbor. The authors examine changes in these patterns over time and variation across broad cultural zones. Evaluations of homosexuality tend to cluster with alcohol and substance use in non-Western societies, albeit less strongly over time, but with race and nativity among Western and Latin American publics. The authors suggest that homosexuality is widely perceived as an identity in Western and “West-adjacent” countries, whereas elsewhere it is more often understood in behavioral terms. Over time, homosexuality is increasingly interpreted as an identity trait rather than a deviant behavior.

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Don’t You Be My Neighbor! Perceptions of Homosexuality in Global Cross-Cultural Perspective, 1990 to 2019

Cole

Geist

2023

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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“…The question of whether individuals assigned female at birth are more likely than those assigned male to exit statistically from their category of origin-as suggested by the American College Health Association Data-cannot be definitively answered. Lagos (2022), analyzing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), finds no statistically significant difference for cohorts born after 1984 between those assigned male at birth and those assigned female in propensity to identify as transgender (among earlier cohorts, those assigned male are more likely to do so). However, the BRFSS data, as Lagos notes, pertain only to individuals who expressly identify as transgender; they do not capture forms of exit that do not involve identifying as transgender but do involve identifying as nonbinary, genderqueer, gender fluid, and so on.…”

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Exit, Voice, and Gender

Brubaker

2023

Sociological Theory

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Albert Hirschman’s exit-voice paradigm provides a useful lens for analyzing the current neo-categorical phase of gender politics in which attention has shifted from the content of the binary gender categories to the structure of the gender category system. During this phase of categorical destabilization, exit from originally assigned categories—in bureaucratically recorded, statistically reported, and informally negotiated forms—has become culturally legitimate and institutionally supported in a broadening range of milieus. Hirschman’s paradigm brings into focus the selectivity of exit and its potentially—and paradoxically—stabilizing consequences for the traditional gender order. The increased ease and pronounced selectivity of exit can channel dissatisfaction with gender arrangements into exit rather than voice or—as exit may itself be a form of voice—into individualized, psychologically driven forms of voice. And the selective exit of gender-nonconforming individuals from originally assigned categories can reinforce the stereotypical associations of these categories with gender conformity.

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“…Sound measures of trans and non-binary identities are necessary for disaggregated analyses of LGBTQ public opinion. Second, trans and non-binary populations are growing over time, especially as younger generations are more likely to identify as trans or non-binary (Herman et al, 2022;Lagos, 2022;Statistics Canada, 2022). This population growth makes it increasingly important for all public opinion researchers to include questions identifying trans and non-binary respondents in their surveys so they can understand how their identities shape their political attitudes and behaviors.…”

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Measuring Transgender and Non-Binary Identities in Online Surveys: Evidence from Two National Election Studies

Albaugh

Harell

Loewen

et al. 2023

Preprint

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A small but growing number of people identify as transgender or non-binary. Their political attitudes and behavior are important to examine, but we know little about them. We argue that current survey research practices for identifying transgender and non-binary respondents fall short in treating “transgender” as something to ascribe onto people rather than as a social identity. Current practices likewise show evidence of measurement error. We illustrate the consequences of common conceptualization and measurement issues by analyzing two large-sample online surveys–the 2019 and 2021 Canadian Election Study (CES) online panels. We find that the 2019 CES generates inflated estimates of the percentage of non-binary people and potentially distorts the correlates of non-binary identity because transgender men and women select the same “Other” response category as non-binary respondents. We conclude with recommendations for future political surveys.

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Has There Been a Transgender Tipping Point? Gender Identification Differences in U.S. Cohorts Born between 1935 and 2001

Cited by 16 publications

References 95 publications

Don’t You Be My Neighbor! Perceptions of Homosexuality in Global Cross-Cultural Perspective, 1990 to 2019

Don’t You Be My Neighbor! Perceptions of Homosexuality in Global Cross-Cultural Perspective, 1990 to 2019

Exit, Voice, and Gender

Measuring Transgender and Non-Binary Identities in Online Surveys: Evidence from Two National Election Studies

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