Transgender politics as body politics: effects of disgust sensitivity and authoritarianism on transgender rights attitudes

Miller, Patrick; Flores, Andrew R.; Haider‐Markel, Donald P.; Lewis, Daniel C.; Tadlock, Barry L.; Taylor, Jami K.

doi:10.1080/21565503.2016.1260482

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“…For example, it might be particularly easy to elicit disgust when discussing food. However, disgust plays an important role in attitudes toward immigration (Aarøe, Bang Petersen, & Arceneaux, 2017), sexuality, (e.g., Gadarian & van der Vort, 2017;Miller et al, 2017), vaccination (Clay, 2016), and a variety of other topics involving health or group attitudes (e.g., Kam & Estes, 2016). And anger, which is likely to be elicited by concerns about harm or injustice, should be easy to stimulate for a wide variety of topics, such as terrorism (Lerner et al, 2003), intergroup attitudes (Banks & Valentino, 2012), and social welfare (Petersen et al, 2012).…”

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How Emotional Frames Moralize and Polarize Political Attitudes

Clifford

2018

Political Psychology

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Moralized issues, such as abortion and same‐sex marriage, are some of the most polarizing and divisive issues in politics. These topics motivate political engagement but present a barrier to democratic resolution. Yet we know little about how some issues become “moral issues” and others do not. In this article, I argue that exposure to persuasive frames, particularly those eliciting anger and disgust, serves to moralize and polarize public opinion. I test these hypotheses across three experiments on emerging debates over food politics. The results consistently show that persuasive frames increase issue moralization and, in turn, facilitate polarization. A panel analysis demonstrates that the effect of a single exposure lasts at least two weeks. Mediation analyses suggest that feelings of disgust and anger help explain how persuasive frames moralize political attitudes, while anger alone seems to explain the polarizing effects of framing. Overall, the findings provide new insight into framing, emotion, and the development of moral issues.

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How Emotional Frames Moralize and Polarize Political Attitudes

Clifford

2018

Political Psychology

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“…Negative IMPLICIT TRANSGENDER ATTITUDES 5 attitudes towards transgender people are particularly pronounced among political conservatives (Norton & Herek, 2013), more religious people (Kanamori et al, 2017;Nagoshi et al, 2008), older people (Landen & Innala, 2000), and heterosexuals (Willoughby et al, 2010). Moreover, feelings of disgust toward transgender bodies predict opposition to transgender rights policies (Miller et al, 2017).…”

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Implicit Transgender Attitudes Independently Predict Beliefs About Gender and Transgender People

Axt

Conway

Westgate

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Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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Surprisingly little is known about transgender attitudes, partly due to a need for improved measures of beliefs about transgender people. Four studies introduce a novel Implicit Association Test (IAT) assessing implicit attitudes toward transgender people. Study 1 ( N = 294) found significant implicit and explicit preferences for cisgender over transgender people, both of which correlated with transphobia and transgender-related policy support. Study 2 ( N = 1,094) found that implicit transgender attitudes predicted similar outcomes among participants reporting no explicit preference for cisgender versus transgender people. Across Study 3a ( N = 5,647) and Study 3b ( N = 2,276), implicit transgender attitudes predicted multiple outcomes, including gender essentialism, contact with transgender people, and support for transgender-related policies, over and above explicit attitudes. This work introduces a reliable means of measuring implicit transgender attitudes and illustrates how these attitudes independently predict meaningful beliefs and experiences.

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“…Very little previous research has examined the role of disgust in attitudes toward transgender peoples' rights (Miller et al, 2017). Our research adds to this small literature by identifying which subtypes of disgust are most closely connected to bathroom access attitudes and by revealing that disgust-driven moral concerns play a central role in support for policies that restrict bathroom access.…”

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Disgust and disgust-driven moral concerns predict support for restrictions on transgender bathroom access

Vanaman

Chapman

2020

Polit. life sci.

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Many U.S. states have proposed policies that restrict bathroom access to an individual’s birth sex. These policies have had widespread effects on safety for transgender and gender-nonconforming people, as well as on state economies. In this registered report, we assessed the role of disgust in support for policies that restrict transgender bathroom access. We found that sensitivity to pathogen disgust was positively associated with support for bathroom restrictions; sexual and injury disgust were unrelated. We also examined the role of disgust-driven moral concerns, known as purity concerns, as well as harm-related moral concerns in support for bathroom restrictions. While concerns about harm to cisgender and transgender people predicted support for bathroom restrictions, purity was a much stronger predictor. Also, purity partially mediated the link between pathogen disgust and support for bathroom restrictions, even after accounting for harm concerns. Findings and implications are discussed.

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Transgender politics as body politics: effects of disgust sensitivity and authoritarianism on transgender rights attitudes

Cited by 65 publications

References 42 publications

How Emotional Frames Moralize and Polarize Political Attitudes

How Emotional Frames Moralize and Polarize Political Attitudes

Implicit Transgender Attitudes Independently Predict Beliefs About Gender and Transgender People

Disgust and disgust-driven moral concerns predict support for restrictions on transgender bathroom access

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