ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ: I cannot begin to imagine how absolutely exhausting it must be for trans people to have to continue to remind everyone that their intrinsic human right to live authentically and fully does not depend on the “approval” of anyone else

I cannot begin to imagine how absolutely exhausting it must be for trans people to have to continue to remind everyone that their intrinsic human right to live authentically and fully does not depend on the “approval” of anyone else

I see this post has gotten attention and I didn’t post the link because I was so mad about it, but it’s an L.A. Times/NORC poll: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Americans approve of LGBTQ+ people living as they wish, but their support drops for trans people, poll showswww.latimes.com American support for LGBTQ+ people has surged since 1985, but support for transgender and nonbinary people lags, according to a new poll for The Times.

I can’t help but find this depressing, especially as the parent of a non-binary 28 year old.

yeah it kinda sucks ass ngl

Yeah it does. It's also fucking depressing.

There's a word for not approving of an entire demographic of people. Hmm.

rly makes u think

My therapist, physician, and general support network: "You have to weigh your desire to not die by your own hand against your desire to not die at someone else's hand."

I appreciate people's concern for my physical safety, but I'd much prefer their actual S U P P O R T to disempower those who would fucking murder me

Same.

I work in the actual politics of this and let me tell you its fucking awful

If that’s the Pew voter poll, IIRC it showed something like 70% of Democrats supporting trans rights, with the overall drop driven by a massive shift in Republican sentiment and a small one amongst Black Democratic evangelicals. It’s mostly a partisan story, like so much else these days!

Sorry, I didn’t post the link because o was so mad about it. It was an LA Times/NORC poll: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Americans approve of LGBTQ+ people living as they wish, but their support drops for trans people, poll showswww.latimes.com American support for LGBTQ+ people has surged since 1985, but support for transgender and nonbinary people lags, according to a new poll for The Times.

Pretty similar crosstabs, though I think the NORC poll, which has more detailed questions, shows even more of a split within the GOP on the topic than the Pew poll did, so it’s like 80% of Dems and 40-50% of Republicans in support. www.norc.org/content/dam/...

www.norc.org

One thing that comes through is that there’s no juice left to squeeze from political homophobia: overall support for gay rights is so high that the far right has to keep going further afield to find people to punch. The Atlantic came along at just the right time to give them a new moral panic.

That’s great but I imagine it’s not very reassuring if you are trans and are seeing increasing government action — not just poll-taker sentiment — that is intended to prevent you from just living your life day-to-day

It is not, no.

That would be more comforting if the GOP didn't have a veto proof majority in my state.

Oh, the GOP will happily stomp on /so many people’s rights and freedoms/, it’s just that I dislike the media acting like this is some widespread shift in attitudes when it’s only the right wing finding another minority group to punch repeatedly to make the votes fall out.

Yes the same here.

I can't decide what is worse. The non-stop hatred or the way people pretend they can't see what is happening.

It's very exhausting

Drastically different

I'm so tired

What word do those people think the T in that means, exactly

The increasingly mysterious meaning of the letters after "LG" has baffled many both within and without the community for a thousand years now.

Right? If acceptance of trans people is declining, that means acceptance of LGBTQ people is not on the rise

it's a constant friction rubbing a part of you raw

Hesse I think that's the best description I have seen. That is exactly how I feel all the time.

glad it resonates- obviously not glad it's affecting us all 🫂

For those of us in places like Oklahoma and Florida it pretty much hits. 🫂

ah that scans then- Florida girlie here 👋 🫂

we're the rawest bitches alive though

Exactly. If you change "lgbt" for any other demographic the very question would rightly be classed as crass and insulting.

Well, to those who do not “approve” I have a simple message. Fuck you 🖕

"Our Queerest Century" 🙃

it’s only been 24 years but we’re calling it! this century queer as hell

trans people: *exist" paper: "whoa, not *that* queer"

if these trends continue we’re looking at national mandatory gender reassignment by 2062 ⁉️

i saw this article come up on the LA Times Instragram story and the framing infuriated me. it's just exhausting and demoralizing tbh

I mean, I was raised Catholic, so honestly I'm used to it.

it's not the best.

thankfully it seems like this isn't as widespread as it seems, but still very tiring to continue seeing this when you live in a deep red state

The whole "approval" framing of this poll/survey thingy really bothered me. Had I been polled for it, I'd've had a hard time answering, because my answer to everything would've been "My approval has no bearing on anything."

man i'm just tryna chill over here

Jesus 💀

Trans people I know care more about niche nerd shit and wanting to pee without getting judged way more than whatever the fuck psycho religious conservatives think they want to do. I’ll always stick up for them.

Please forgive my ignorance, I thought the T in LGBTQ+ stood for Trans?

That’s correct!

Yeah well my approval hasn't dropped at all for bigoted hatemongers. It can't. Because it's nonexistent. They can f**k right off.

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