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Title: Transgender and Cisgender Children’s Stereotypes and Beliefs About Others’ Stereotypes
Early in childhood, children already have an awareness of prescriptive stereotypes—or beliefs about what a girl or boy should do (e.g., “girls should play with dolls”). In the present work, we investigate the relation between children’s own prescriptive gender stereotypes and their perceptions of others’ prescriptive gender stereotypes within three groups of children previously shown to differ in their prescriptive stereotyping—6- to 11-year-old transgender children ( N = 93), cisgender siblings of transgender children ( N = 55), and cisgender controls ( N = 93). Cisgender and transgender children did not differ in their prescriptive stereotypes or their perceptions of others’ prescriptive stereotypes, though the relationship between these variables differed by group. The more cisgender control children believed others held prescriptive stereotypes, the more they held those stereotypes, a relation that did not exist for transgender children. Further, all groups perceived the stereotypes of others to be more biased than their own stereotypes.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1715068 1837857 2041463
NSF-PAR ID:
10124828
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Social Psychological and Personality Science
ISSN:
1948-5506
Page Range / eLocation ID:
194855061987991
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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