Transpersoners förtroende för välfärdsinstitutioner

Sammanfattning: To what degree do transgender people trust welfare? This bachelor thesis aims to survey the trust in welfare institutions. Trust in institutions seems to affect to which extent people turn to and trust in welfare and will hence have consequences on individuals everyday- lives. Transgender people have, according to recent years Public Health Surveys, an inferior psychosocial position compared to the population at large and is thus an interesting group to investigate. By asking transgender people to give their views on welfare we hope to increase the visibility of their perspective. We believe that trust can be studied via social constructivist theory and will thereby use Rothstein and Stolle’s theory on generalized trust and social psychology in our analysis. Our underlying survey is positioned between Health Surveys and Welfare Studies and rests on two pillars: institutional sociology and social psychology. Our results confirm previous research concerning the determinants of trust. Our results show that transgender trust in welfare is decided by the same factors as the populations trust at large.