Bad news! There is little doubt that those who promote/espouse gender/transgender ideology have other radical/extreme views too including the use of violence!
Unfortunately, the survey size is rather small (i.e. only 1,200 adults).
"Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? is a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services examining the psychology behind strong support for radical gender ideology and left-wing authoritarianism.
Researchers surveyed over 1,200 U.S. adults using a new measurement tool built from “gender-affirming” guidance issued by major medical and psychological associations.
The study found that people who scored higher on this measure (i.e., those who are more likely to agree with the guidance) were also more likely to hold left-wing authoritarian views — and more likely to say political violence could be justified in certain cases, even after accounting for political party alone.
The authors conclude that support for "gender-affirming" norms is strongly associated with broader authoritarian attitudes, not just political identity, and predicts support for political violence."
From the abstract:
"For decades, psychological research on attitudes toward individuals who identify as transgender has focused almost exclusively on prejudice and has attributed that prejudice to authoritarian dispositions presumed to reside on the political right.
Little research has examined the characteristics associated with strong endorsement of "gender-affirming" norms.
We developed the Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale (CGAS), drawing items from official guidance issued by the American Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association, World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and American Academy of Pediatrics, and
administered it to 1,208 U.S. adults.
Across preregistered analyses, CGAS and related gender ideological-belief measures were strongly associated with left-wing authoritarianism (LWA), with Spearman correlations ranging from ρ = 0.44 to ρ = 0.59.
CGAS also significantly predicted LWA, accounting for 31.5% of its variance.
In ordinal regressions predicting CGAS, political identity was the strongest predictor, but LWA remained an independent predictor after controlling for political identity and age.
LWA and CGAS were also positively associated with justification of political violence across six targets: killing Charlie Kirk, killing Donald Trump, killing Brian Thompson, arson of ICE buildings, damaging wealthy people’s property, and violence against police.
Both independently predicted all six violence outcomes after controlling for left-wing political identity.
These findings suggest that gender ideology is associated with LWA and willingness to justify political violence. Experimental research is needed to determine causality. "
New Research on Gender Ideology and Left-Wing Authoritarianism (original news release)
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