“Your Rights End Where Mine Begin”: a Mixed-Methods Study of Moral Foundations Theory and Support for Bathroom Bills

Cox, Jennifer; Stanziani, Marissa; Coffey, C. Adam; Bownes, Elizabeth; Holliday, Stephanie Brooks; Meaux, Lauren T.

doi:10.1007/s13178-021-00559-w

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“…The value placed on purity/sanctity is also predictive of attitudes towards homosexuality (Kaur & Sasahara, 2016;Koleva et al, 2012). Cox et al (2021) found emphases on both purity/sanctity and authority/respect are predictive of hostile views toward the transgender community within the context of bathroom bills. Additionally, support for transgender rights (contextually represented by opposition to bathroom bills) is closely correlated with emphasis on the care/harm foundation.…”

Section: Ideological Determinationsmentioning

confidence: 88%

Demography of Censorship: Examining Correlations Between Community Demographics and Materials Challenges in Canadian Libraries

Nyby

2023

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This study examines materials challenges in Canadian libraries, compiled by the Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA), with the intention of identifying demographic trends in patron challenge behaviour. By cross-referencing the CFLA data with five demographic fields from the 2016 Canadian census of population (median age, city size, educational attainment level, median income, and political representation), the study aims to determine whether challenges of a certain nature are more likely to occur in communities with certain demographic profiles. The study identifies twenty-two challenge categories derived from user complaints and three ideological alignments of challenges based on the political ideology standards set by moral foundations theory. Though the available sample is too small to draw any definitive conclusions, some strong trends were apparent. Findings show that the most common challenge types, challenges to racist content and sexual content, are fairly consistent throughout demographic groupings, but notable correlations were found between demographic profiles and materials concerning LGBTQIA+ issues. Progressive-leaning communities were far more likely to challenge homophobic/transphobic materials while conservative-leaning communities challenged more LGBTQIA+-positive works. From an ideological standpoint, young communities tend to be the most progressive in their challenge behaviour, while communities with a low level of educational attainment tend to be the most conservative in their challenge behaviour.

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Section: Ideological Determinationsmentioning

confidence: 88%

Demography of Censorship: Examining Correlations Between Community Demographics and Materials Challenges in Canadian Libraries

Nyby

2023

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“…Participants’ descriptions of their views regarding laws regulating people’s access to public restrooms were then read in depth by the first author, who developed content categories based on recurring themes. We followed the basic steps of inductive thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006), beginning with identifying apparent patterns in participants’ open-ended responses, then generating coding categories based on these themes, discussing and refining the coding categories, and finally coding all responses into the finalized categories (see Cox et al, 2021, for a similar approach, also in the context of assessing opinions regarding transgender people’s access to public bathrooms). The category generation process was conducted on data from the final sample of N = 520, after a priori exclusion criteria had been taken into account.…”

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confidence: 99%

Evoking gender distinctiveness threat in cisgender women lowers their support for gender-inclusive bathroom policies

Hayes

Reiman

2021

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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Some cisgender women oppose policies granting transgender women access to women-only bathrooms. We examined whether this opposition stems from perceiving that transgender women threaten the distinctiveness of the social category “women” (gender distinctiveness threat). Cisgender women ( N = 520) read about a state bill enabling transgender women to use women’s bathrooms. Participants further read that enacting the bill would mean their state officially believes that “transgender women are real women” or “transgender rights are human rights”; in the control condition, this information was omitted. Participants reported their support for the bill and level of gender distinctiveness threat. Cisgender women who read that the bill would imply their state believes transgender women are real women (vs. transgender rights are human rights) reported lower bill support, and this effect was mediated by distinctiveness threat. Perceived threat to the distinctiveness of womanhood may help explain cisgender women’s reluctance to include transgender women in women-only spaces.

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“…In terms of gender identity, cis women possess more positive views of trans people than do cis men (Adamczyk and Liao 2019; Cragun and Sumerau 2015; Flores 2015; Lewis et al 2017; Tadlock et al 2017). In a similar vein, people who are lesbian, gay, or bisexual are more supportive of efforts to uphold the rights of trans people than are heterosexuals (Cox et al 2021; Tadlock et al 2017). Partisanship is also a robust predictor of these attitudes: Republicans are more likely to support attempts to undermine the rights of trans people (Castle 2019; Flores 2015; Lewis et al 2017; Tadlock et al 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Factors Affecting Public Opinion on the Denial of Healthcare to Transgender Persons

Doan

Grace

2022

Am Sociol Rev

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Between one-fifth and a third of people who are transgender have been refused treatment by a medical provider due to their gender identity. Yet, we know little about the factors that shape public opinion on this issue. We present results from a nationally representative survey experiment ( N = 4,876) that examines how common justifications issued by providers for the denial of healthcare, and the race and gender identity of the person being denied care, intersect to shape public opinion concerning the acceptability of treatment refusal. We find that religious objections are viewed as less acceptable compared to a medical justification, in this case, inadequate training. However, the difference between religious objections and inadequate training is larger when the person being denied healthcare is White or Asian than when the person is Black or Latinx. Analysis of open-ended responses indicates the modest effect of doctor’s rationale on attitudes toward treatment refusal with respect to Black and Latinx patients is partially attributable to a racialized, free-market logic. Respondents were more likely to advocate for a doctor’s fundamental right to refuse service when evaluating Black and Latinx patients compared to White patients. We discuss the implications of these findings for intersectional approaches to trans studies and future public opinion research.

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“Your Rights End Where Mine Begin”: a Mixed-Methods Study of Moral Foundations Theory and Support for Bathroom Bills

Cited by 10 publications

References 39 publications

Demography of Censorship: Examining Correlations Between Community Demographics and Materials Challenges in Canadian Libraries

Demography of Censorship: Examining Correlations Between Community Demographics and Materials Challenges in Canadian Libraries

Evoking gender distinctiveness threat in cisgender women lowers their support for gender-inclusive bathroom policies

Factors Affecting Public Opinion on the Denial of Healthcare to Transgender Persons

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