Anti-trans sentiment among British people is increasing, YouGov data shows

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/02/12/anti-trans-sentiment-among-british-people-is-increasing-yougov-data-shows/

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39 comments

  1. I am not surprised. The push for recognition will generate pushback. And the more they appear in media and sports, the more pushback there will be.

    EDIT: I don’t know why you’re downvoting me for stating an obvious fact.

  2. Trans acceptance is going down just about everywhere.

    I wonder how much of it is backlash to the way pro-trans activists the last few years have been pushing really hard, really fast? In some ways, pushing faster than general societal opinion followed, leading to a pretty big disconnect between what activists thought public opinion was, and what the average person really thought. I also wonder how much of an impact it had that activists were pushing for children to be allowed to transition, even against their parents wishes?

  3. I swear I will start a social media campaign against…. I don’t know…. bus drivers.
    With a million dollar I can create riots where idiots are hunting bus drivers on the street.

    People are so fucking stupid.

  4. We’re a manufactured boogeyman meant to distract people from the rich cunts pilfering people’s pockets. Everything they say about us now, they said about gays a generation ago. And when they give up with us, they’ll move to another group

  5. Personally, I have nothing against such folks. If anything – I’ve had a massive amounts of understanding and compassion for their struggles as being different. I know how it feels, from personal experience – for other reasons, but same in effect. What caused my support to dwindle and wilt is mostly because (but, not only) their unwavering intolerance for any kind of questions, logic, sense I was trying to make out of all of that. It was either you accept all that we say without any further questioning or shade of a doubt in any of our claims or we proclaim you hater, phobic, bigoted and whatnot. Labeling me generously. If I dared to ask about e.g. ten years old kid being really able to make irreversible decisions about their medical condition, I felt like I’m Shrek surrounded by angry villagers with torches and forks. I never felt or declared as a right-leaning person, but their reaction to my genuine curiosity was always met with slew of labels that would make real right-wing folks seem as members of Mickey Mouse Club. It really was that utter intolerance that affected my tolerance. I still don’t hate any of them, nor do I wish them anything I wouldn’t wish for myself or people I care about, but I really feel it went too far now.

    Plastic example: you know that kid you accidentally or purposely slap on their wrist and they wouldn’t only slap you back, but slap you twice, thrice, ten times, punch you, bite you, kick you in the teeth, suffocate you, flay you alive if they could? That is how most of the times it felt debating with them. Too much intolerance, toxicity, resentment, anger – all in, full throttle.

  6. Why is the world so focused on trans, what’s the angle?
    They are like 0,001% of the world population I don’t get it!

  8. anti-everything sentiment is increasing. The social and political climate is getting worst, and people feel the need to hate on everyone and everything and blaming anyone for the issues that is happening. We have a long way to go until we get back to having empathy again and stop hating everyone

  9. No one gave a fuck about trans people a decade ago, but the news focus and activism today is totally out of proportion with the number of people affected.

    There are more rockclimbers in the UK than trans people FFS.

    People aren’t reacting to the trans people themselves, but what feels like another political bandwagon – like BLM, the twats who glue themselves to the road, or the shitty Palestinian marches that gum up high streets every few weeks.

  10. I’m 45 years old I have never once taken part in, or been asked to take part in one of these ‘nationwide polls’ and don’t know anyone or have ever met anyone that has either. They’re meaningless guff that target certain types of people knowing the results they’ll get so they can get clicks/views whatever you want to call it.

  11. Yep when shit hits the fan pick the lowest hanging fruit that makes up under 1 percent of the population.

    Keep smiling up and kicking down.

    Complaining about your own high rent, bad salary and horrible work hours but doing nothing about it cuz your all so gosh darn disgusted by the existence of… Trans people.

    Not billionaires, Not mass rapists or mass murders, not the company that’s rejecting your insurance based on whatever tiny print you failed to read etc but ofc… The trans people.

    Cuz they really must be at fault for everything that’s ever happened to you.

    Sigh.

  12. Trans people did this to themselves!! And I say this as a trans woman myself. Trans activists are completely unable to read a room, and they focus on the most irrelevant shit.

  13. I’m a trans man. Seeing lots of comments about not being allowed to be ask questions about us or our existence. Ask me anything. 

  15. Suppose trans people are no more. What do we achieve? Nothing of value, really. I won’t get more money on my wallet, I won’t feel safer nor happier, the housing crisis will remain, pollution will continue, corruption will go on. The downsides of it will be division and fear. Because who’s next on this crusade? Will we target idk left-handed people next because they’re different™??

    The only hate people should have is against people who really hurt others, like billionaires, criminals, rapists, nazis, etc. Real threats. Not trans, queers, immigrants, women (? This shouldn’t even be said in 2025), or even your neighbor (unless he’s an asshole)

  16. If anyone is interested in why this is, I highly recommend this video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAMM3l156Oo

    As always in our modern world the way sentiment is broadly changed is through mass
    media. The vast majority of people with strong negative opinions on trans people have never met a trans person or been aware that they had met a trans person. Despite this their omnipresent existence in media makes people feel strongly about them, and the reason the media keeps mentioning trans people, as always is for big ratings and bigger profits.

    TLDR: The media focused on trans people for money which caused UK politics to be forced to take more and more extreme stances on Trans Rights to stay current which resulted in a mass proliferation of anti trans sentiment despite the fact that by every conceivable metric trans people cause literally no harm and medical transition is accepted and recommended by nearly every reputable health organization in the world.

  17. Trans activists pushed too hard too fast on issues. The general public doesn’t enjoy being told how to talk. I’m not anti-trans but I think there’s a severe lack of nuanced conversation around the topic from both sides. All in all its a great way to keep the general public distracted from the real problems, what a shame

  18. The focus on immigration I at least *understand* even if I don’t agree. Immigration levels have a significant effect on a country. But I find the focus on trans people baffling. They make up like 0.1% of the population and don’t have political impact in the same way immigration does.

    I know why right-wing politicians focus on it, but I’m constantly surprised by the appetite the public has for it.

  19. The whole decision to try to do self-ID seems to have caused a massive backlash that threatens to erode previous gains, not sure that fully explains the scale though.

  20. ffs just end me already im tired of my existance being up for debate.

  21. And as with everything it’s portrayed as a spontaneous bottom up thing instead of recognizing this is driven by big money and rightwing populism in a very deliberate campaign

  22. Ban the propaganda platforms. Let stupid people catch their breath and be comfortable in their stupidity.

  23. hardly surprising wasn’t that the whole point of the manufactureed debate

  24. Kinda natural. The world is a pendulum and we swing pretty far to the left for a good while, and no we are going to swing right for a while. In time, it will swing back again. and again, and again.

  25. British people or UK habitants?
    Because I can tell you exactly who’s increasing in number and with that comes these backwards views…

  27. Yes that’s how propaganda works, if you tell people that trans people are threat most will believe you eventually..

  28. I really don’t understand why, cannot comprehend how you can hate on someone because of what they chose to do with their bodies of their issues or lifestyle. It’s not affecting my body my life so why the hate ?!

  29. There are significantly more multi-millionaires in the UK than there are trans people. There are more rapists in the UK than there are trans people.

    Less than 1% of the population has a non-confirming gender identity, and an even smaller sub-section are actually *trans* as opposed to queer.

    I fail to understand why a tiny, truly tiny number of people, are so vilified by modern click-fueled, rage-baiting media.

    Trans people (broadly) aren’t hurting you, your family, your kids, your job. 14 years of regressive Conservative leadership is.

  30. I’m seeing too many of these reports about “how bad young people in Europe/US are doing” lately:

    – young people [are more anti-semitic](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjSKvXfWQAAUMQs?format=jpg&name=large)
    – young people [are more homophobic](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1d3er0h/less_than_half_of_amsterdam_youth_accept/)
    – young people are more anti-trans

    Which completely ignoring the *enormous* demographic shift that has happened in these territories in the last 10 years.

    As long as they don’t show a proper breakdown by ethnic group or country of origin these studies are useless and very poorly designed

  31. Leave the trans at peace – they are irrelevant. More important things to sort out.

  32. Disgusting that such a vile opinion is gaining in popularity….

  33. This comments section reads like people talking about gays in the 80s

  35. Muslim population is increasing soa anti gay/trans, anti-women sentiment is increasing

  36. I have a number of queer friends in England that are having to get increasingly closeted to live among bigoted family and friends. The worst thing is that with some of them, we can’t even talk about this subject or anything else queer related because they are being driven so far into the closet they’ve had to avoid the topic like a rabid animal or even respond with aggression to feel safe – even in our always safe queer-friendly communities!

    One of my friends in such a community always has and still insists they’re trans. They love using affirming avatars, hate their own appearance and voice and even went so far as to use AI image editing apps to genderswap selfies.

    I can no longer broach any queer subject with them. Their best friend is a raging homophobe (possibly deeply closeted, or possibly just so homophobic he genuinely doesn’t care how toxic he is to everyone around him) and both times queer friend invited homophobe to our group, homophobe adopted a surface-level almost sarcastically cheerful personality that avoided/ignored any and all remotely deep/emotional/personal conversation topics going on and, through plausible deniability, actively suppressed everyone in our group at every opportunity he had, inserting himself into conversations between other people without actually taking part in them. All this while spewing gay “jokes” non-stop.

    Mercifully, he dipped out on his own, but while he was there he’d repeatedly “forget” anything remotely inclusive or affirming anyone requested him to be considerate of, and he aggressively deadnamed his best friend and anyone else he learnt other names for, along with insisting on calling everyone “he, dude, bro” etc. Regardless of preference. Even the biological cis women in the group, oddly enough.

    Now, my friend has ceased expressing their preferences or talking about queer topics. They’ve gotten progressively more and more frustrated and depressive, and the only thing they do is, still, regularly take and share photos of their game avatar – affirming ones that go against their biological sex.

    Likewise, my other English (queer) friends have grown more and more depressed and reclusive over the past couple months. Their families don’t *want* to understand, instead frequently making remarks and suggestions to conform more with friend’s biological sex.

  37. When the pendulum swings too far one way into the realm of silliness it only takes time for it to inevitably swing back the other way …..

  38. Gay here. There are two factors in my opinion.

    The one to blame on trans people is the competition on sports. I’m sorry but that isn’t fair and everybody with a minimal sense of logic can see it and how it could counterattack to the trans movement.

    The one not to blame on trans people is that trans identify themselves with another genre. And that’s it. All the irritating pronouns shit is actually “another battle”, by another people. But that confuses the population, and they blame the trans movement. If a person identifies as a woman and wants to get a woman body, the person identifies as a woman and wants to be called “she”. End of the story. I’m sorry but I can’t understand at all how people identifies as non binary or as both genres. This goes totally against what transexuality means. If the person identifies as non binary or both genres then there is no point at all to “trans” to anything. The non binary movement has taken everything now being just a bunch of people who need attention. It wasn’t enough with “they/theirs”, it had to be a huge amount of them, for every sensible snowflake out there. Population got fed up with the stupidity. It is like every single person should be special and have his own genre stuff.

    Many “classical” gays are fed up with this and miss when the pride was the gay pride and not the LGBTQA*ETC. So I can imagine how the general population hate this.

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