The Underestimation of Transgender Women’s Vulnerability to Workplace Sexual Harassment

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ID21453763
AutoresBryn Bandt-Law (0000-0001-5821-515X, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, autor de correspondencia), Nathan N Cheek (0000-0003-3515-4141, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA), Jessica J Glazier (0000-0001-7755-5651, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA), Kristina R Olson (0000-0002-1111-544X, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA), Cheryl R Kaiser (0000-0002-7847-042X, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
Año2025
Páginas1461672251368955-1461672251368955
Fecha de publicación2025-10-07
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0146-1672 • E-ISSN: 1552-7433
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/01461672251368955
PMID41054339
OpenAlexW4414883260
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas48

Despite experiencing sexual harassment more frequently and more severely than cisgender women, transgender women survivors’/victims’ experiences of workplace sexual harassment are often omitted or ignored. Drawing from theorizing on victim prototypes and perceptions of sexual harassment, we show across six studies (total N = 2,022) that people incorrectly believe that transgender women are less likely to experience workplace sexual harassment compared to cisgender women. This effect is stronger among individuals who deny that transgender women are, in fact, women. We also show that people perceive harassment claims from transgender women who experience unwanted advances to be less credible than identical claims from cisgender women. Perceptions that transgender women are unlikely and non-credible victims of sexual harassment have important implications for understanding the erasure and neglect of transgender women survivors and the obstruction of transgender women’s civil rights

Harassment · Human sexuality · Neglect · Perception · Transgender · Transgender people · Vulnerability (computing) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Workplace Violence and Bullying