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Unshared spaces: a field experiment on the politico-cultural contexts of housing discrimination against transgender and nonbinary persons in Germany.

The paper examines the prevalence and mechanisms of discrimination in the informal shared housing market against transgender and nonbinary persons. Employing a correspondence test, the study investigates the responses to fictitious applications from transgender and nonbinary individuals to shared ap...

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Published in:Social Forces Vol. 105; no. 1; pp. 363 - 387
Main Authors: Beyer, Heiko, Pfleger, Elea
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Sep2026
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