Attitudes among physicians towards transgender and gender diverse people in Turkey: Relationship with religiousness, political view and conservatism.

Autor: Ersoy G; Department of Medical Sciences, Institute of Forensic Sciences and Legal Medicine, Istanbul University - Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, Turkey., Akrep A; Department of Medical Sciences, Institute of Forensic Sciences and Legal Medicine, Istanbul University - Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, Turkey., Gönen AÇ; Department of Psychiatry, Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey., Gölge ZB; Department of Social Sciences, Institute of Forensic Sciences and Legal Medicine, Istanbul University - Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, Turkey.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Sociology of health & illness [Sociol Health Illn] 2024 Nov; Vol. 46 (8), pp. 1686-1708. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 18.
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13809
Abstrakt: 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.
(© 2024 The Author(s). Sociology of Health & Illness published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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