Where does the British public stand on transgender rights in 2024/25? | YouGov

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1. It’s almost as though a mass media campaign screeching about how trans people are all rapists trying to convert your kids will alarm people and push them to believe things that are false. Almost as though there’s been mass propaganda talking about how children are getting gender surgery en masse (they are not) and trans women are creeps that make women unsafe (they’re not) and trans men are delusional self hating women that can’t be allowed to have bodily autonomy (they should be allowed whatever). It’s almost as though just recently a trans employee asking a customer if she needed help was framed by media campaigns as being a potential rapist targeting a teenager. The more the media pushes a narrative no matter how fake, people will internalize it and start hating a group they have never met and who will never have an effect on their life.

2. Insane to me that simply being pressured from outside sources can drive such a high percentage of people to switch attitudes into hating a group they’ve literally never been effected by

   Humans are so painfully stupid sometimes and could really do with a screen time limit

3. This is nice to see.

   Just keep running the surveys, keep educating people, keep hearing out people’s concerns and cautions. Any discussion is good discussion.

   I’m sure as more people become educated on the topic they’ll make informed decisions, particularly for their own children.

   Edit – not sure why this was downvoted

4. It’s worth going back and looking at the fight for gay rights and same-sex marriage .. a campaign that was spectacularly successful. Consider that in a few decades we went from gay sex being illegal to allowing gay marriage. How did that movement succeed where trans rights now have stalled? The first thing I note is that the campaign for gay rights was less strident and less dogmatic. It was a campaign of soft persuasion rather than force. No-one was cancelled for not supporting gay marriage. No-one was labeled a homophobe. Nowadays if you’re not 100% on board with trans rights you’re labeled a transphobe and accused of spreading hate. Nowhere is this more evident than the treatment of health care professionals and medical doctors who dare oppose the new orthodoxy. They are vilified, hounded and canceled. Are we surprised this provoked a backlash?

5. I’m not transphobic, I don’t hate trans people. I just think that based on what I’ve heard from the media and zero personal research that we’ve really gone too far indulging these people.

   What is the point of a democracy if the uninformed and unaffected can’t attack minority groups during a moral panic?

6. I thought all that trans hysteria died out the moment Trump cut off financing for all that shit? The moment (the very moment) that huge corporations stopped to “support pride months” with their logos and twitter posts? The moment when video game developers (Concord anyone?) and filmmakers stopped to push all that diversity bullshit into that despite money gains saying they shouldn’t?

   Trans people exist and thats all they should get given the market percentage. Im surprised western electorate still remembers that kind of “current thing” (vapes? spinners? skibidy toilets? tralallelo trallala?) exists. They were supposed to switch instantly given their intelligence level.

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