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Factors influencing acceptance of transgender athletes
Tanimoto, Chikako
Miwa, Koji
open access
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
transgender
trans
sport
gender
athletic identity
belief in a just world
This study examined factors influencing acceptance of transgender athletes in sport events. Quantitative data were gathered from 373 Japanese university student-athletes. We investigated contributions of two types of predictors. One is the context in which trans athletes are placed; the other involves survey respondents’ psychological constructs that may influence their reaction to the issue. The results show that trans men were more accepted than trans women, trans athletes with hormone treatment were considered more acceptable, and trans athletes were more accepted in unofficial sporting events for children and adults than in official national and international events. The results also revealed that for respondents with weaker athletic identity, higher degrees of belief in a just world were positively associated with attitudes of acceptance. Whereas stronger athletic identity was positively associated with acceptance for men, it was negatively associated with acceptance for women. Considering the different nuances surrounding transgender issues in Japan, our study will add cultural diversity to research literature that has mainly focused on the contexts of North America and Western Europe.
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
Taylor & Francis
2021-04-26
eng
journal article
VoR
http://hdl.handle.net/2237/0002000947
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2000947
https://doi.org/10.1080/14413523.2021.1880771
1441-3523
1839-2083
Sport Management Review
24
3
452
474
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/2000947/files/Factors_influencing_acceptance_of_transgender_athletes.pdf
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