Ten-Minute conversation can reduce transphobia: study
Just one 10-minute conversation is enough to reduce bias against transgender people, according to a new study from two California universities. Published in the journal Science, the study involved canvassers engaging in conversations with hundreds of people on the doorsteps of their Miami homes. Not only did the conversations improve attitudes toward transgender people, but “markedly…
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Suzanne McFly April 9th, 2016 at 10:08
This works across the board. If we are only surrounded by people we can personally identify with, then we will assume all that we hear about the other groups are true. Humans always like to believe we belong to the best team. We need to interact and not just on keyboards, by talking to others face to face we lose the opportunity to demonize them.
Mensa Member April 9th, 2016 at 12:58
I guess I’m an exception — I changed my mind on the gay issue without knowing any “out” gay people.
But, it took a lot of reading and thinking and praying. I was raised in a fundamentalist church and have spent my adult life, living and working with evangelicals. Becoming vocally “pro-gay” meant giving up my own community.
I’m glad I did but it cost me a lot.
William April 9th, 2016 at 16:50
I don’t need a conversation because rights are rights. A persons sexual identity or orientation doesn’t in any way amplify or denigrate those rights. I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t understand the LGTBI lifestyle/community, but that’s fine.
I also don’t understand golf, crocs, buying a movie and then watching it on a 2 inch screen, Starbucks, gluten free, spin classes, vaping, lite beer, or 4 dollar bottled water.
Just because I don’t understand it, buy it or subscribe to it, doesn’t mean it’s wrong or worthy of my contempt.
Ok…except for lite beer, that sh*t needs to be banned.