Meet Prof. Kath Browne, whose work explores lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans exclusion

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]They don't hold the same views. They're not all right wing and actually they're quite different from each other.

[00:00:08]The contemporary era has shown that polarization around gender and sexuality are even more critical to our worlds, to our lives, to our politics. And we only really look at them in terms of the political sphere and we need to understand what it means in everyday lives in order to really address what people experience.

[00:00:32]Beyond opposition found that people who are opposed to or concerned about socio-legal changes in terms of abortion and same-sex marriage and gender recognition are not the same. They don't hold the same views. They're not all right wing and actually they're quite different from each other. And this is really important in considering how polarization happens because by putting them together we create an issue.

[00:00:57]So those who are opposed to or concerned about these changes were very different from each other. And actually what we found was that people held a variety of positions in this and lumping them together was part of creating the problem and creating polarization. We also found that they were affected by these issues. Their everyday lives were affected. [music] So we presume that there isn't an impact for them but there is an impact and especially in terms of work and employment and how they can engage in work and what they can do when they are at work.