Kira Kay Means ^* Thekla Morgenroth

• Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States

As feminist and academic discussions of gender diversity have become more common in recent years, social psychological research on transgender and nonbinary individuals has followed suit. However, it seems that power and status in social psychology, as reflected by our top journals and funding structures, are still concentrated around the gender/sex binary. Using PsycINFO, we analyzed the proportion of transgender- and nonbinary-related research published in top social psychology and general psychology journals in recent years, comparing these proportions to gender-related topics frequently studied in the context of the gender binary (e.g., gender equality/inequality, sexism, gender stereotypes, etc.) that seem to be more commonly represented in these journals. We used similar keyword searches to also examine current and expired NSF-funded projects and determine how frequently these projects reflected more inclusive and less binary models of gender. In general, top social and general psychological journals published proportionally much more research on other gender-related topics than on transgender and nonbinary populations. Among NSF-funded projects in the Social Psychology program or the broader Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, zero abstracts included the terms “transgender,” “nonbinary,” or variations of these terms, in comparison to much larger numbers that mentioned gender or gender-related topics. We close by discussing the implications of this imbalance and likely benefits for the field if transgender- and nonbinary-related research were to hold a higher status in social psychology.