Elizabeth Rahilly
Biographic Data
| ID | 4122913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Rahilly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Rahilly |
| SIGNATURE | RAHILLY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Southern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8879-5394 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“My God Doesn’t Have a Gender”
Transgender and non-binary (TNB) identities are not inherently incompatible with certain religions, but conservative Christian ideology has reinforced trans-exclusive gender norms. Due to Christianity’s importance in US Southern culture, many TNB southerners develop their sense of gender within conservative Christian environments. In this context, we take up the call to expand the research on TNB religious experiences. We examine interview data f…
Moral Reframing and Transgender Athlete Bans
Scholars have long touted the power of moral convictions in shaping political attitudes. Moral reframing involves designing messages that align with an opponent’s moral convictions with the goal of increasing their willingness to adopt that position. Using lessons from the literature on political psychology, we examine the rhetoric used by legislators supporting and opposing transgender athlete bans in US states to determine how moral reframing w…
Gender Identity Revisited among Gender-Open Parents
As transgender and non-binary (TNB) identities grow more visible in Western culture, some parents seek to ensure their children's gender self-determination versus assuming their gender from birth. Such 'gender-open parenting' practices, however, can impact the parents' gender as much as the children's. Using interview data and thematic analysis from a larger project on gender-open parenting, we examine a sub-group of parents who started questioni…
Gender-open grandparenting
More and more aging adults are becoming grandparents in an era of heightened LGBTQ+ awareness, especially of transgender and nonbinary identities. This era is marked by progressive forms of childhood gender socialization as well, including the relatively recent advent of 'gender-open parenting': gender-open parents do not assign a gender to their children, and use they/them pronouns for the children until they express their own sense of gender. H…
Value frames in discourse supporting transgender athlete bans
American states began passing legislation that would ban transgender girls from competing on sports teams that match their gender identity in 2020. During legislative debate, supporters of transgender athlete bans adopted rhetoric that framed their arguments in terms of commonly held values. ‘Value frames’ establish connections between people and spoken values and have a powerful effect on the way that opinions about public policy are formed. We …
The Trans Generation
The last decade has witnessed a veritable sea change in sociopolitical reckonings with gender, including trans-related law, policy, and visibility—and its blowback—as well as a new generation of families who embrace transgender identities and transitions for young children. In this increasingly trans-aware landscape, Ann Travers’ The Trans Generation offers a timely and incisive sociological treatise on the needs of transgender kids. Travers cond…
Re-Interpreting Gender and Sexuality
The Gender Binary Meets the Gender-Variant Child
Until recently, raising a young child as transgender was culturally unintelligible. Most scholarship on transgender identity refers to adults’ experiences and perspectives. Now, the increasing visibility of gender-variant children, as they are identified by the parents who raise them, presents new opportunities to examine how individuals confront the gender binary and imagine more gender-inclusive possibilities. Drawing on Foucault’s notion of “t…
The Gender Binary Meets the Gender-Variant Child
Until recently, raising a young child as transgender was culturally unintelligible. Most scholarship on transgender identity refers to adults’ experiences and perspectives. Now, the increasing visibility of gender-variant children, as they are identified by the parents who raise them, presents new opportunities to examine how individuals confront the gender binary and imagine more gender-inclusive possibilities. Drawing on Foucault’s notion of “t…
Re-Interpreting Gender and Sexuality
Gender-open grandparenting
More and more aging adults are becoming grandparents in an era of heightened LGBTQ+ awareness, especially of transgender and nonbinary identities. This era is marked by progressive forms of childhood gender socialization as well, including the relatively recent advent of 'gender-open parenting': gender-open parents do not assign a gender to their children, and use they/them pronouns for the children until they express their own sense of gender. H…
Value frames in discourse supporting transgender athlete bans
American states began passing legislation that would ban transgender girls from competing on sports teams that match their gender identity in 2020. During legislative debate, supporters of transgender athlete bans adopted rhetoric that framed their arguments in terms of commonly held values. ‘Value frames’ establish connections between people and spoken values and have a powerful effect on the way that opinions about public policy are formed. We …
Moral Reframing and Transgender Athlete Bans
Scholars have long touted the power of moral convictions in shaping political attitudes. Moral reframing involves designing messages that align with an opponent’s moral convictions with the goal of increasing their willingness to adopt that position. Using lessons from the literature on political psychology, we examine the rhetoric used by legislators supporting and opposing transgender athlete bans in US states to determine how moral reframing w…
The Gender Binary Meets the Gender-Variant Child
Until recently, raising a young child as transgender was culturally unintelligible. Most scholarship on transgender identity refers to adults’ experiences and perspectives. Now, the increasing visibility of gender-variant children, as they are identified by the parents who raise them, presents new opportunities to examine how individuals confront the gender binary and imagine more gender-inclusive possibilities. Drawing on Foucault’s notion of “t…
Re-Interpreting Gender and Sexuality
The Trans Generation
The last decade has witnessed a veritable sea change in sociopolitical reckonings with gender, including trans-related law, policy, and visibility—and its blowback—as well as a new generation of families who embrace transgender identities and transitions for young children. In this increasingly trans-aware landscape, Ann Travers’ The Trans Generation offers a timely and incisive sociological treatise on the needs of transgender kids. Travers cond…
Gender-open grandparenting
More and more aging adults are becoming grandparents in an era of heightened LGBTQ+ awareness, especially of transgender and nonbinary identities. This era is marked by progressive forms of childhood gender socialization as well, including the relatively recent advent of 'gender-open parenting': gender-open parents do not assign a gender to their children, and use they/them pronouns for the children until they express their own sense of gender. H…
Value frames in discourse supporting transgender athlete bans
American states began passing legislation that would ban transgender girls from competing on sports teams that match their gender identity in 2020. During legislative debate, supporters of transgender athlete bans adopted rhetoric that framed their arguments in terms of commonly held values. ‘Value frames’ establish connections between people and spoken values and have a powerful effect on the way that opinions about public policy are formed. We …
Moral Reframing and Transgender Athlete Bans
Scholars have long touted the power of moral convictions in shaping political attitudes. Moral reframing involves designing messages that align with an opponent’s moral convictions with the goal of increasing their willingness to adopt that position. Using lessons from the literature on political psychology, we examine the rhetoric used by legislators supporting and opposing transgender athlete bans in US states to determine how moral reframing w…
Gender Identity Revisited among Gender-Open Parents
As transgender and non-binary (TNB) identities grow more visible in Western culture, some parents seek to ensure their children's gender self-determination versus assuming their gender from birth. Such 'gender-open parenting' practices, however, can impact the parents' gender as much as the children's. Using interview data and thematic analysis from a larger project on gender-open parenting, we examine a sub-group of parents who started questioni…
“My God Doesn’t Have a Gender”
Transgender and non-binary (TNB) identities are not inherently incompatible with certain religions, but conservative Christian ideology has reinforced trans-exclusive gender norms. Due to Christianity’s importance in US Southern culture, many TNB southerners develop their sense of gender within conservative Christian environments. In this context, we take up the call to expand the research on TNB religious experiences. We examine interview data f…
Gender Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Transgender (6 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender identity (3 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (3 works)