Sexist people more likely to support trans sports bans, study findshttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/people-more-likely-to-support-trans-sports-bans-study-finds/ 🔗Alex Bollinger (26 Oct 2026)
A new study from political science researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that people who are more sexist are also more likely to support restrictions on trans girls and women participating in women's sports.
The study examined the beliefs of 1000 American adults when it came to trans people in sports and sexism, a timely topic considering how politicians and public figures who support restrictions on trans people's participation in sports generally frame their position as protecting women's rights.
The participants were asked whether they agreed with several statements about women – "Women seek to gain power by getting control over men," "Women are too easily offended," and "Women exaggerate problems they have at work" – which are used by social scientists to assess whether a person holds a sexist view of women as controlling and incompetent.
About 79% of the people who were found to be the most sexist agreed that the government should ban trans people from playing sports as their gender, while only 28% of the least sexist people agreed.
They also asked people to rate how they feel about women on a scale of 0 to 100 and found that 45% of people with the most positive views of women supported sports bans, while 58% of people with the most negative views of women did the same.-----------------------------
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