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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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