I remember Null putting out a statement regarding an Australian MP quoting Kiwi Farms. He said something along the lines of "There's no greater hell for a woman than to be locked in a cage with a rapist."
"No matter how much makeup I put on, I'm still a raging incel." If this is real, I feel safe saying that people don't misunderstand him at all.
I wonder if this is a troll.
This reminded me of a great New Yorker article about a radical feminist domestic violence shelter in Boston. At one point a couple of staff members were involved in an abusive relationship but the rest of staff couldn't recognize it because the abuse was between two women.
Source (Archive)More Say Birth Gender Should Dictate Sports Participation
BY JEFFREY M. JONES
JUNE 12, 2023
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Opposition to transgender athletes on teams matching gender identity rises
- 39% say they know someone who is transgender, up from 31% in 2021
- Majority still say changing one’s gender is morally wrong
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A larger majority of Americans now (69%) than in 2021 (62%) say transgender athletes should only be allowed to compete on sports teams that conform with their birth gender. Likewise, fewer endorse transgender athletes being able to play on teams that match their current gender identity, 26%, down from 34%.
These results are based on Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs survey, conducted May 1-24.
The issue has sparked debate at all levels of competitive sports, particularly around transgender women’s ability to play on women’s teams. Sports governing bodies and schools have adopted a range of policies on the issue, some more inclusive of transgender participation than others.
Transgender sports participation has also become a major political flashpoint, and elected officials in conservative-leaning states have enacted laws to ban transgender athletes who were born male from competing against female athletes. At least 20 U.S. states now have such laws, and the Republican-led U.S. House recently passed a national ban. The federal ban is unlikely to pass the Senate, and President Joe Biden has promised to veto it. The White House recently released a proposed set of guidelines that would govern decisions surrounding transgender individuals’ participation in gender-segregated sports.
The shift toward greater public opposition to transgender athletes competing on the basis of their current gender identity has occurred at the same time that more U.S. adults say they know a transgender person. Thirty-nine percent of Americans, up from 31% in 2021, say someone they know personally has told them they are transgender.
But both Americans who know and do not know a transgender individual have become less supportive of allowing transgender athletes to play on the team of their choice. Currently, 30% of those who know a transgender person favor allowing athletes to play on teams that match their current gender identity, down from 40% in 2021. Among those who do not know a transgender person, support is now 23%, down from 31%.
Republicans, Democrats and independents are all modestly less supportive of transgender athletes playing on current gender identity teams today than two years ago. The result of these changes is that Democrats are now divided on allowing transgender athletes to play on either male or female teams, while in 2021 more were in favor than opposed. Large majorities of independents (67%) and Republicans (93%) remain opposed to giving transgender athletes a choice of competing on male or female teams.
Although Democrats are currently divided on the issue, they do rank among the groups most in favor of allowing transgender athletes to play on the team that corresponds to their current gender identity. Political liberals are the lone major subgroup showing majority (57%) support for allowing transgender athletes to choose which team to play on.
Young adults (41%) are also more supportive than other subgroups and are one of the only subgroups that are not less supportive than in 2021 (35%).
Majority Say Changing One’s Gender Is Morally Wrong
The survey also asked about Americans’ more general views on being transgender. A majority, 55%, consider “changing one’s gender” to be more “morally wrong,” while 43% say it is “morally acceptable.”
Those results are slightly less accepting than in 2021, when Gallup last asked the question -- 51% thought changing one’s gender was morally wrong, and 46% morally acceptable.
The view that changing one’s gender is morally acceptable has declined more among Republicans and people who do not know a transgender individual -- down seven percentage points among both groups since 2021.
Meanwhile, roughly seven in 10 Democrats and six in 10 people who know a transgender individual continue to say gender change is morally acceptable. Independents are divided on the question, but their views, too, haven’t changed.
As with many issues that touch on morality, there are wide differences of opinion between younger and older adults. Sixty percent of 18- to 29-year-olds say changing one’s gender is morally acceptable. Among those aged 30 to 49, 48% say it is morally acceptable and 50% say morally wrong. But among Americans aged 50 and older, less than one-third of Americans, 32%, believe it is OK morally for a person to change their gender.
Older Americans are less likely now than in 2021 (39%) to believe changing one’s gender is morally acceptable. Americans under age 50 have similar views to 2021.
Bottom Line
Laws that restrict participation for transgender athletes are generally in line with U.S. public opinion on the issue. People who know a transgender individual continue to be more accepting of pro-transgender policies than those who do not, but the relationship has weakened in the past two years. As a result, Americans have become less favorable to transgender athlete participation in single-gender sports than they were in 2021, even as more people say they know a transgender person.
It appears that Americans view transgender sports participation more through a lens of competitive fairness than transgender civil rights. Even Democrats, who mostly support LGBTQ+ rights and affirm the morality of gender change, are divided on the issue of whether transgender athletes should be allowed to participate on teams that match their gender identity rather than birth gender.
However, with younger Americans more supportive of transgender sports participation, more likely to believe changing one’s gender is morally acceptable and more likely than older people to know a transgender person, opinions may eventually shift toward more accepting views.
Source (Archive)Fewer in U.S. Say Same-Sex Relations Morally Acceptable
BY JEFFREY M. JONES
JUNE 16, 2023
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- 64%, down from 71%, say same-sex relations are morally acceptable
- Slightly more (60%) than last year (55%) say death penalty is morally OK
- Birth control, divorce still most widely viewed as morally acceptable
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans’ views about the morality of a number of behaviors and practices are largely stable compared with a year ago. However, significantly fewer say same-sex relations are morally acceptable, and more say the death penalty is.
Americans are most likely to say birth control is morally acceptable, with 88% holding that view. At least seven in 10 say the same about divorce, sex between an unmarried man and woman, and having a baby outside of marriage. Same-sex relations and the death penalty are in the next group, along with gambling, stem cell research and wearing animal fur, with between 60% and 69% of Americans approving of those five issues from a moral perspective.
U.S. adults are least likely to condone married men and women having an affair, human cloning and suicide.
These results are based on Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs poll, conducted May 1-24. Gallup previously reported other findings from this list, including that 52% of Americans find abortion to be morally acceptable, tying the high point in the trend, and 42% believe changing one’s gender is, showing a slight decline from 2021.
From a longer-term perspective, Americans’ opinions of most of these issues have trended in a more liberal direction in the 20-plus years Gallup has asked about them.
Republicans Drive Changes on Same-Sex Relations
Last year, a record-high 71% of U.S. adults said gay or lesbian relations are morally acceptable. The figure has fallen back this year to 64%, returning to a level last seen in 2019. Still, Americans are far more likely to consider same-sex relations as morally acceptable than in the past, including 38% in 2002 and 54% in 2012. The figure has been 60% or higher since 2015.
The decline in the percentage of Americans believing gay or lesbian relations are morally acceptable is mainly a result of fewer Republicans holding that view -- 41% do now, down from 56% a year ago. The current figure is the lowest Gallup has measured for Republicans since 2014 (39%). Between 2020 and 2022, majorities of Republicans approved of gay or lesbian relations.
Democrats (79%) and independents (73%) continue to be much more likely than Republicans to find gay or lesbian relations morally acceptable.
More Republicans, Independents See Death Penalty as Acceptable
Americans’ opinions of whether the death penalty is morally acceptable have varied modestly over the past two decades, between a low of 54% in 2020 and a high of 71% in 2006. This year, 60% describe it as morally acceptable, after being in the mid-50% range the prior three years.
Republicans and independents are modestly more likely to say the death penalty is morally acceptable, including a six-percentage-point increase among Republicans to 82% and a seven-point increase among independents to 59%. Democrats’ acceptance is essentially unchanged at 40%.
The roughly 40-point differences in Republicans’ and Democrats’ opinions about whether same-sex relations and the death penalty are moral represent two of the largest gaps among the issues tested in the poll. Only two issues have larger partisan differences -- abortion (57 points; 79% of Democrats vs. 22% of Republicans say it is acceptable) and changing one’s gender (55 points; 70% among Democrats and 15% among Republicans).
Bottom Line
Americans’ opinions on the morality of various issues have mostly become more liberal over the past two decades, but the two biggest changes this past year, on same-sex relations and the death penalty, have been in a more conservative direction. Still, Americans are less conservative on these two issues than they were 20 years ago. Republicans, who increasingly identify as conservative on social issues, are largely responsible for the changes this year.
"She didn't abuse me because she is a woman too."
It's as if constantly making a big deal that one's a faggot, insulting straights with various insults like "straggots", insisting (X) person or character is canonically homo, and anyone who's offput by the in-your-face excessiveness is "homophobic" merely makes people think of you and your group as assholes at best and degenerate corruptors at worst.
A fun game I like to play whenever I see people blustering about they’re gonna kill terfs/nazis/whatever is to search their username plus the word ‘anxiety’. Sure enough:
On the Internet it's really easy to be a tough guy and talk shit, it's harder to follow up on that when you also want to pretend to be a victim of society for raking in those sweet, sweet pity points from the echochamber.
And you have to be post pubertal to have a chance of it working. Gametes are present in girls at birth but they are not mature until a specific stage. Blocking progression through the tanner stages is going to block maturation of gametes - far from preserving fertility, blockers will wreck it.
"I want to stop hating them but I can't forget the trauma they've caused me, what do I do?"
We pretty much do. The decreasing acceptance of LGBTQIABBQ+ hasn't appeared to increase incidents of gay bashing, even the bigots recognize that troons are the problem. The troons are the ones threatening violence and being sex pests in LGB spaces. It does not personally affect me as an LGB if Bud Light drinkers are referring to all LGBTs when they call Dylan Mulvaney a faggot. He is.
The uwu heckin cute & valid transgirl who totally passes
"Don't take this the wrong way but you have a male looking face. I wouldn't have been surprised if you said you were a trans woman tbh."
"You look like a man in girl clothes, sorry but you're ugly."
"there is something weird about the way you look at the camera"
"If Bon Scott dressed as a girl. Spitting image."
"Looking for sincerity or niceness?"
"Ur a guy right?"
"You are a really handsome man"
The name Lux makes me think of "The Virgin Suicides".
