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Measuring Discrimination Against Transgender People at the University of the Basque Country and in a Non-University Sample in Spain

Transgender people suffer from others’ negative attitudes in many situations. The university context is one environment where further progress has to be made to ensure the inclusion of transgender people. In this study, a sample of 376 undergraduate students was collected and their attitudes towards...

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Autores principales: Ozamiz-Etxebarria, Naiara, Picaza, Maitane, Jiménez-Etxebarria, Eneritz, Cornelius-White, Jeffrey H. D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7178034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32244480
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072374
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author Ozamiz-Etxebarria, Naiara
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description Transgender people suffer from others’ negative attitudes in many situations. The university context is one environment where further progress has to be made to ensure the inclusion of transgender people. In this study, a sample of 376 undergraduate students was collected and their attitudes towards transgender people were analyzed. A comparison was made between number of years in university, and a sample from the general public. In addition, comparisons were made by gender, since the literature shows more negative attitudes toward transgender people in men than in women. The results show relatively positive attitudes toward transgender people among higher education students, but they have little knowledge of transgender identity. In turn, researchers found significant differences between different years in the university and between genders. These results support the need to expand knowledge about transgender people in the university environment.
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spelling pubmed-71780342020-04-28 Measuring Discrimination Against Transgender People at the University of the Basque Country and in a Non-University Sample in Spain Ozamiz-Etxebarria, Naiara Picaza, Maitane Jiménez-Etxebarria, Eneritz Cornelius-White, Jeffrey H. D. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Transgender people suffer from others’ negative attitudes in many situations. The university context is one environment where further progress has to be made to ensure the inclusion of transgender people. In this study, a sample of 376 undergraduate students was collected and their attitudes towards transgender people were analyzed. A comparison was made between number of years in university, and a sample from the general public. In addition, comparisons were made by gender, since the literature shows more negative attitudes toward transgender people in men than in women. The results show relatively positive attitudes toward transgender people among higher education students, but they have little knowledge of transgender identity. In turn, researchers found significant differences between different years in the university and between genders. These results support the need to expand knowledge about transgender people in the university environment. MDPI 2020-03-31 2020-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7178034/ /pubmed/32244480 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072374 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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