Identifying as a feminist and endorsing liberal feminist values are associated with positive attitudes toward trans* people and their rights. However, since the late 1970s, one branch of radical feminism has argued for a biological essentialist definition of binary gender categories. More recently gender-critical feminism has appealed to radical feminism when describing trans* rights as a threat to biologically-defined women’s politics and safety. To understand debates around the evolution of trans* rights, three studies (N = 502), examined the associations between diverse feminist perspectives and identifications, gender binary beliefs, and attitudes toward trans* people and their rights. Study 1 updated an existing measure of different feminist perspectives. Study 2 showed that endorsements of intersectional, and radical feminist perspectives were associated with positive attitudes toward trans* people and their rights. Study 3 revealed that both intersectional and radical feminist identifications were also associated with positive attitudes, whilst endorsing gender binary beliefs was associated with negative attitudes. These results challenge the assumption that support for trans* rights is inconsistent with either general feminist or specifically radical feminist positions and inform both debates around the evolution of trans* rights and existing tensions within feminist movements.

认同女权主义者并认可自由女权主义价值观与对跨性别者及其权利的积极态度相关。然而，自 20 世纪 70 年代末以来，激进女权主义的一个分支一直主张对二元性别类别进行生物学本质主义定义。最近，性别批判女权主义在将跨性别权利描述为对生物学定义的妇女政治和安全的威胁时，吸引了激进女权主义。为了了解围绕跨性别者权利演变的争论，三项研究 ( N = 502) 考察了不同女权主义观点和认同、性别二元信仰以及对跨性别者及其权利的态度之间的关联。研究 1 更新了不同女权主义观点的现有衡量标准。研究 2 表明，对交叉和激进女权主义观点的认可与对跨性别者及其权利的积极态度相关。研究3表明，交叉和激进的女权主义认同也与积极态度相关，而支持性别二元信仰则与消极态度相关。这些结果挑战了对跨性别权利的支持与一般女权主义或具体激进女权主义立场不一致的假设，并为围绕跨性别权利演变和女权运动内部现有紧张局势的辩论提供了信息。