The Politics of Social Categorization: The Case of Transgender Women’s Athletic Participation in the United States

• In Event: Cross-pressured Voting and Wedge Issues in Polarized America

Brief Overview

The paper documents the evolutions of opinions about transgender women’s sports participation from 2019 to 2024, showing dramatic changes in how partisans, particularly Republicans, think about the issue.

Authors

• Jamie N. Druckman, University of Rochester

• Elizabeth A. Sharrow, University of Massachusetts