Supporting the T in LGBT: Increasing Motivation for Collective Action for the Transgender Community Among Cisgender Sexual Minorities

LGBT+社区代表了一系列性别和性少数群体，他们在历史上一直为平等权利和被接受而斗争。骄傲游行、抗议、示威和提高意识的运动只是LGBT+成员用来打击歧视和仇恨犯罪的集体行动的一部分。然而，尽管在性少数群体方面取得了一些显著的进展(即，在许多国家同性婚姻合法化)，但对于变性人--LGBT中的T--来说，类似的进展却落在了后面。这种对变性人权利有些冷淡的支持在许多群体中都很明显，然而，更令人惊讶的是，这种支持也渗透到了LGB+社区。这在定性研究中得到了证明，因为变性人报告经历了LGB+成员的孤立、排斥甚至歧视(Hutsell，2012；参数等人，2020)。再加上变性人经历了过多的其他困难(例如，暴力仇恨犯罪和自杀水平上升)，至关重要的是进一步调查LGBT+社区内部缺乏支持的问题(Williams Institute，2022,2020)。首先，必须了解为什么在LGB+人群中对变性人权利的支持力度不大，通过探索是什么导致了一些LGB+人群对变性人权利持否定态度和缺乏支持。最终，探索如何通过了解鼓励LGB+个人通过集体行动为LGBT中的T挺身而出的因素，有效地提高这种支持。在ESRC SWDTP的支持下，我计划在研究界内对这个重要但被忽视的问题做出新的解释。我将通过一系列至少三项混合方法的研究和一些必要的后续研究来做到这一点。事实上，我已经开始设计一项试点研究，作为我在埃克塞特的硕士学位的一部分，在我提议的导师贝格尼博士和巴雷托教授的监督下，我们将开始调查LGB+跨性别权利集体行动的不同潜在预测因素。在这项硕士研究(横断面数据)的基础上，我将进行一系列研究，累积目标是开发适当的干预措施来促进这些意图。每一项拟议的研究都将对照理科硕士项目中调查的个体差异因素。LGB+参与者将通过多产的学术机构招募，目前有19,438人可供招募。拟议的项目旨在通过研究一个没有明显优势群体的集体行动例子来增加集体行动文献，并填补其理论空白(Hassler等人，2020)。除了增加理论上的进步外，还希望通过开始制定集体行动干预措施，为经常是一个非常负面的研究领域提供一个令人耳目一新的前景。这项研究的结果希望传播给各种包容性的LGBTQ+和变性人慈善机构和组织(例如石墙和美人鱼)。

The LGBT+ community represents a range of gender and sexual minorities who have fought for equal rights and acceptance throughout history. Pride parades, protests, demonstrations, and awareness-raising campaigns are just some of the collective actions that LGBT+ members utilise to combat discrimination and hates crimes. Yet while there has been some marked progress for sexual minorities (i.e., legalisation of same-sex marriage in many countries), similar progress for transgender people -the T in the LGBT- has lagged behind. This somewhat unenthusiastic support for transgender rights is evident across many groups, however, more surprisingly it also permeates the LGB+ community. This is evidenced in qualitative research as transgender people report experiencing isolation, exclusion, and even discrimination from LGB+ members (Hutsell, 2012; Parameter et al, 2020). Taken together with the fact that transgender people experience a plethora of other hardships (e.g., elevated levels of violent hate crimes and suicidality), it is vital that this lack of support inside the LGBT+ community is investigated further (Williams Institute, 2022, 2020). Firstly, it is essential to understand why support for transgender rights is not stronger among LGB+ people, by exploring what underpins negative attitudes and the lack of support for transgender rights among some LGB+ individuals. Ultimately, then exploring how to effectively boost this support by understanding factors that encourage LGB+ individuals to stand up for the T in LGBT through collective actions.With the support of the ESRC SWDTP, I plan to shed new light on this important, yet overlooked issue within the research community. I will do so across a series of at least three mixed-methodological studies and some follow up studies as and where needed. In fact, I have already started designing a pilot study as part of my MSc degree at Exeter under the supervision of my proposed supervisors, Dr Begeny and Prof. Barreto, where we will start to investigate different potential predictors of LGB+ collective action for transgender rights. Building upon this MSc study (cross-sectional data), I will run a series of studies that will cumulatively aim to develop an appropriate intervention to boost these intentions. Each of the proposed studies will control for the individual difference factors investigated in the MSc project. LGB+ participants will be recruited using Prolific Academic, where there are currently 19,438 available for recruitment.The proposed project aims to add to the collective action literature and fill a gap in its theory by examining an example of collective action in which there is no clear advantaged group (Hassler et al, 2020). In addition to adding to theoretical advancements it is hoped to provide a refreshing outlook on what is often a very negative field of research, by starting the development of a collective action intervention. The findings of the study are hoped to be disseminated to various inclusive LGBTQ+ and transgender charities and organisations (e.g., Stonewall and Mermaids).