The word GAY is said to have come from a banner at a demo that read Good As You. If that's true then we should have a GAA (Good as Anyone) banner it seems. Ok, so we don't need a study to tell us this but here's a study of 300 Polish university student's mental images of transmen out of interest. I haven’t tracked down a comparable study of ideas about trans Ladies or else I'd have posted that up for comparison.
Psychiatr Pol. 2009 Nov-Dec;43(6):729-37.
Female-to-male transsexual's stereotype among university men and women on the basis of semantic differential
[Original article in Polish]
Antoszewski B, Kasielska A, Kruk-Jeromin J.
Klinika Chirurgii Plastycznej, Rekonstrukcyjnej i Estetycznej KCh Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Łodzi.
Abstract
AIMThe aim of this study is to determine female-to-male transsexual's (FtM) stereotypes created in female and male university students and comparing them in the analysed groups.
METHOD
The students answered a questionnaire with 10 pairs of opposite meaning adjectives and placed them on a 7 point scale.
RESULTS
Women significantly more often than men placed FtM transsexual closer to the adjectives "good", "pretty" and "kind", also they assessed the FtM transsexual more often as being "clever".
STUDY CONCLUSIONS
1. The Female-to-male transsexual is not perceived stereotypically among university students.
2. Men created more negative female-to-male transsexuals' image than women.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20209884
In another study the majority of medical students (a whopping 90%) would accept a transsexual as his/her co-worker.
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