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Replication Data for: Cultural Threat, Outgroup Discrimination, and Attitudes toward Transgender Rights

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Title Replication Data for: Cultural Threat, Outgroup Discrimination, and Attitudes toward Transgender Rights
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RUCMZI
 
Creator Lewis, Daniel
Flores, Andrew
Haider-Markel, Donald
Miller, Patrick
Taylor, Jami
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Replication Data for the article, "Cultural Threat, Outgroup Discrimination, and Attitudes toward Transgender Rights," published in Political Behavior.
Scholars often highlight the roles that group threat and intergroup solidarity play in shaping attitudes toward outgroups. Competition among social groups, including over values and culture, can underlie negative attitudes toward outgroups. Meanwhile, perceptions of discrimination against outgroups can drive feelings of solidarity, sympathy, or empathy, which may foster more positive attitudes. These social identity concepts are often studied in the context of racial, ethnic, and religious prejudice, with less attention to how they apply to attitudes toward transgender and gender diverse people. Using a 2022 national survey, we assess how respondents’ perceptions of cultural threat from the LGBTQ community and perceptions of discrimination among a range of outgroups are related to attitudes about transgender rights policies, including access to public restrooms, participation in school sports, and medical transition care. We find that cultural threat is consistently associated with support for policies that restrict the rights of transgender people, but perceived outgroup discrimination tends not to show a significant relationship with these attitudes.
 
Subject Social Sciences
transgender
outgroup discrimination
culutural threat
LGBTQ
social identity
 
Date 2024-01-19
 
Contributor Lewis, Daniel