A poll discovered that approximately 40 % of biologists who suffer from transformed definitions or uninterrupted reports between the sexes suffering from offensive and frightening and hostile behavior at work. So, also, nearly one of every five of the biologists who know that they are gay or gay, gender, or bisexual, according to the study of more than 1,400 researchers, whose authors describe as the largest survey so far from the experiences of professional life between LGBTQ+ biology1.
“One of the people who suffer from this person is too much,” says Catlin Cooper, a biology researcher at Arizona State University in Timby, who has been recognized for research to make science more comprehensive for LGBTQ members.
Those who knew that they are transgender or non -identical gender (TGNC) were more vulnerable to low morale and less than a sense of belonging and comfort in professional places and workplaces more than their straight peers and sex scientists, their questionnaire was found.
The study was published on the Bioxiv Preprint server in late January; The peer has not yet been reviewed.
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The survey was distributed through e -mail and social media in June and July 2023, through five professional societies, namely the American Association of Cell Biology, the Biomedical Association, the American Genetic Association, the International Association for Stem Cell Research and the Association for Progress in Biology Research. The study team received responses from 1,419 biologists, 486 (34 %) who were determined as LGBTQ+, including 153 as TGNC.
He was mostly answering eggs (64 %), and university faculty (49 %), based in the United States (68 %). 20 per cent of respondents from university employees, lecturers or researchers after the doctorate, 15 % of graduate or university students, and 11 % of positions outside the academic circles. Eleven percent of the respondents who were determined as Asian, followed by 8 percent who knew that they were of Spanish, Latin origin or of Spanish origin. Outside the United States, the respondents were mostly in the United Kingdom (4.6 %), Canada (4.2 %) or Japan (1.8 %). In general, the survey attracted responses from 44 countries.
The increase in hostility
The poll was conducted before the current Trump administration in the United States issued a wave of executive orders that cancel the initiatives of diversity, shares, integration and seek to prohibit the use of language related to sex by federal agencies. But it came amid a background to increase political attacks against the LGBTQ+community.
In 2023, when Cooper and its participants distributed the survey, 88 pieces of anti -gay legislation were enacted In the United States, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. The LGBTQ community is granted greater legal protection and acceptance in many parts of Europe, but a reverse reaction to gay control. It was mainly funded and funded by RussiaIt seems to grow there too.
Jess McLeulin, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Alaska, says Anchorag, who is defined as non -transient and non -bilateral, although they did not take the survey, but they are not surprised by the number of transformed biologists who reported hostile, frightening or offensive behavior. “It is something that we knew in a stories,” says McLeulin – and for them, through personal experience.
During teaching during a doctorate at Oklahoma University in Norman, although men’s allowances for class are exposed to criticism in student assessments as a non -professional. They say: “The problem for them was that I was wearing the lawsuit.”
However, an accident near the campus prompted McLeolin to the brink of the abyss and contributed to their decision to end the doctoral degree as soon as possible and to leave Oklahoma: “I was running and someone was chasing me and screaming.”
The McLAGHLIN experience is in line with the survey, as it was 50 % of the respondents from TGNC about their “exclusion, intimidation, offensive, or hostile” outside the work.
At the same time, the survey documented a sharp increase, relative to the 2019 poll (led by Cooper, who was at the time at the University of Central Florida in Orlando), in the percentage of gay biologists who were For their university students (76 % compared to 20 %).
Maeve Mclaughlin, a molecular microbial scientist at the University of Michigan in Flint, who knows that she is a transgender, says she goes out by making her students feel comfortable, including highlighting the work of the group researchers. 500 strange scholars.
She says this makes it easier for students to apply for guidance. “I have many transit and gender students who do not agree with students who ask more comfortable questions,” she says.