‘Beyond Opposition’ project studies views of those who oppose LGBT ideology

Nov 16, 2020 by

From the Beyond Opposition website:

This research project looks at the experiences of people who do not support some or all of the changes to sexual and gender equalities in the 21st century.  This includes, for example, people who believe that marriage should only occur between men and women and/or that families should be based on a heterosexual union. It also includes those who are concerned about the legalisation of abortion and/or people who disagree with, or question, transgender inclusion policies…

…We are academics who believe in respecting people’s lives and experiences and reporting them as they tell us.  We will not seek to change the opinions of those who are involved in the research, indeed these views, values or beliefs are not the focus of the study.  Instead we are interested in everyday experiences; in other words, what happens when people are going about their lives and find that they are confronted with people or situations that challenge their values.

A key goal is to understand how societal changes are experienced from as diverse a set of perspectives as possible.  We work to ensure that we collect people’s experiences in as professional an environment as possible.  We seek to cultivate respectful engagement across diverse opinions so we can gain a greater understanding of how sexual and gender issues play out in everyday life. 

We will take time to analyse the data and will look across a range of people to gain an understanding of these experiences and similarities and differences between them. At times, we will use participant’s own words to explain our findings and to show how people spoke about their experiences. We may also show how people understand or do things differently. We will not stereotype or demean.  

The research seeks to respectfully investigate difference and we will report the findings carefully. However, we recognise that we cannot control how other people take up our findings and use them. We will work to correct any inaccuracies and present the ethos of respectful engagement with difference. 

https://beyondopposition.org/about-the-project/

Download the initial report on research findings here

https://beyondopposition.org/blog/

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