Attitudes among physicians towards transgender and gender diverse people in Turkey

Relationship with religiousness, political view and conservatism

Bibliographic Data

ID2250389
AuthorsGökhan Ersoy (0000-0002-4594-7172, Department of Medical Sciences Institute of Forensic Sciences and Legal Medicine Istanbul University – Cerrahpaşa Istanbul Turkey, corresponding author), Aytunç Akrep (0000-0002-1147-5840, Department of Medical Sciences Institute of Forensic Sciences and Legal Medicine Istanbul University – Cerrahpaşa Istanbul Turkey), Anıl Çakır Gönen (0009-0008-6194-1839, Department of Psychiatry Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Training and Research Hospital Istanbul Turkey), Zeynep Belma Gölge (0000-0002-0904-0354, Department of Social Sciences Institute of Forensic Sciences and Legal Medicine, Istanbul University – Cerrahpaşa Istanbul Turkey)
Year2024
Volume46
Issue8
Pages1686-1708
Publication date2024-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.13809
PMID39024014
OpenAlexW4400774050
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited106

According to several recent studies, physicians in various medical branches have some differences in attitudes towards transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) persons based on religious or political beliefs. Our study aims to uncover the attitudes of the general physician community in Turkey, which has a youthful profile, regarding TGD individuals. The attitudes towards transgender individuals scale (ATTI) and the general conservatism scale, along with a form that asks about socio-demographic factors, political beliefs, and level of religion, were administered online to physicians. The ATTI score of physicians (mean = 77.8) is favourable and did not vary among branches. Being female, being close to TGD, having left-wing views, low conservatism and low religious belief scores were associated with positive attitudes towards TGD individuals. The physician profile's moderate religious belief and left-wing views can be interpreted as a country-specific dynamic and did not prevent the approach from being positive. Despite physicians' positive attitude towards TGD individuals on a professional level, there is resistance to contacting them in their daily lives. The possibility of the partial contribution of socially desirable response behaviour to positive scores should not be ignored

Conservatism · Geography · Political science · Politics · Religious belief · Scale (ratio · Transgender · Clinical Psychology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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