Menschen mit höherer Religiosität, gemessen am Grad des Glaubens, der Häufigkeit von Gottesdiensten und Gebeten sowie der Bedeutung Gottes im eigenen Leben, weisen ein deutlich höheres Maß an Transphobie und Belästigungseinstellungen gegenüber Transsexuellen auf. Als stärkster Prädiktor für diese Einstellungen erwies sich die Religiosität.
Being male, more religious and more aggressive increases the likelihood of transphobia
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Where the study does find clear patterns is in the combination of religiosity, aggression and empathy. People with higher religiosity, measured by the degree of belief, the frequency of worship and prayer, and the importance of God in one’s life, show significantly higher levels of transphobia and attitudes of harassment towards trans people or those with non-normative gender expressions. In the models used in this study, religiosity emerges as the strongest predictor of these attitudes.
For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00332941261423119
Religion is the justification for man’s hatred towards man.
I’m going to argue with the way the term ‚religiosity‘ is used here. I am a highly religious pagan (and a mod on r/Wicca) but this does not express itself through „degree of belief, frequency of worship and prayer, and importance of God in one’s life“ but rather through reverence for nature.
Religion gives them the pass to be their true awful selves.
Unfortunately one of the big religions gets a complete pass on being allowed to hate on trans and or gay people.
Hence why I judge anyone who is very religious
No hate like Christian love.
Not exactly surprising. I once argued with a local about trans rights and his argument was that trans people were humiliating themselves as a way to decry god. Absolute loon
This is unfortunately in line with my personal experiences, with various religious people of different religious traditions. Sorry if this is more a of a tangent, just I’m very disappointed and not at all surprised about the correlation here. Sad part is, it ends up harming the more vulnerable of their community members the most, rather than the fantasy made up about how they’re protecting kids from „gender ideology.“
I think basically everyone who’s been exposed to the world has seen this in action with an appropriate sample size tbh.
Didn’t really need science to confirm that, we have decades of empirical data.
Given that a lot of religions have a historically negative view of anything but traditional heterosexual relationships, this doesn’t seem at all surprising to me. Kind of like saying that people with high religiousity are more likely to believe in the concept of heaven.
sad to learn but not surprised. i’m trans & very involved in my religious community but we are markedly progressive as a group
This aligns with what we’ve seen in other studies linking religious fundamentalism to lower acceptance of outgroups generally
My ex was very religious and very disrespectful to the trans community. It felt like she used religion to justify her awful opinions and actions
I suspect non-Abrahamic faiths weren’t included, as is heavily implied by “God.”
Was the same thing with gay people before (still is). When will we learn?
300 people in 3 cities?
Didn’t even bother to ask which religion.
This is seriously what passes for science in this space? What a joke of a sample size
The Bible in Roman times was progressive and forward thinking. The Church created public healthcare, it got people to think about women as humans, Constantine abolished the torturous crucifixions, they abolished gladiator bloodsport (though this one was hard and took time); it did a lot. Relative to the Roman Empire, it was a force of good.
One has to question where things went wrong. For something once so noble, why do many of its patrons of today hold so much darkness in their hearts? Where does one find in the bible any message whatsoever that says to harass trans people? Historically the church had many eunuchs; why was this ok but not today’s transgender people?
If I were to answer it myself, I’d say politics became too intertwined with faith.
Makes sense. Belief in an infallible, omnipotent deity means that they don’t make „mistakes“ like putting someone in a body with a biological sex that doesn’t match their gender expression or identity.
The whole basis of religion is in-groups and out-groups. And the intensely patriarchal American Christianity that most Christians adhere to here is ofc not going to tolerate the idea that gender isn’t preordained, because that would mean men aren’t inherently superior.
For some reason, the comment where someone asked, „Which religions were measured in this study?“ was deleted. I think that’s important to point out given that not all religions are the same.
Makes sense.
Of course there was no differentiation with Christianity vs other religions.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X21000107
I can’t say I’m surprised that people who follow a Bronze Age book of teachings that has been aggressively revised to match the conservative politics of the times (multiple times), and split off into other branches entirely with their own political hangups, would tend to hold conservative views about topics not covered by said book.