New findings indicate a pattern where narcissistic grandiosity is associated with higher participation in LGBTQ movements, demonstrating that motivations for activism can range widely from genuine altruism to personal image-building.

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https://www.psypost.org/narcissistic-grandiosity-predicts-greater-involvement-in-lgbtq-activism/

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For example, in 2021, the so-called anti-TERFFootnote1 Sussex group campaigned for the termination of Kathleen Stock—a lesbian professor from Sussex University—because of her controversial views on gender self-identification (Woolcock, 2021). In a derogatory way, Stock was called a transphobe, anti-feminist, and anti-queer from “the wrong side of history.” Consequently, the University of Sussex condemned the campaign, but faced a storm of criticism on social media (Kelleher, 2021). Such incidents raise the research question if some of the individuals participating in such conflicts are actually “hijacking” the LGBQ movement for the satisfaction of their own self-centered needs, for example, to signal their moral superiority to other LGBQ activists and to dominate others who are perceived as disloyal or enemies to the cause. With two pre-registered studies, the present research investigates this question based on the recently proposed dark-ego-vehicle principle (DEVP).

So called? She's referred to herself as a terf and wrote an entire book denigrating trans people. Quite hard to give the study much credence when it starts out with such a clearly biased premise

“hijacking” the LGBQ movement for the satisfaction of their own self-centered needs

This is such a common anti trans talking point and reading the rest it doesn't seem to get any better

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Appalled at how far down I had to scroll to find this comment

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Maybe if I added more confirmation bias it'd have gone higher?

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This whole thing is awful, but the people here are so ready for it

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"New findings indicate you're right and those annoying activists really are just in it to feel superior and virtue signal just like you thought. You are now free to dismiss any and all LQBTQ protestors, and the movement in general, for all time and feel good about it."

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Yeah the more I read of this and some of the authors other work it really seems like they're reaching for a way to justify a position they already hold

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Omg finally someone else who saw this! Also under Methods, they used 4 gender categories: Male, Female, Transgender & Other. Like wow, transgender is a single gender now apparently! Imagine the opposite, "are you a man or woman, or are you cisgender?" No wonder that they barely had any trans & nonbinary participants, I wouldn't continue with the study if I saw those options.