Most Americans believe that it’s a “problem” that Republicans are transphobic.
A new YouGov poll asked Americans whether they thought that certain issues were a “problem” for either party. 44% said that transphobia was “a major problem” among Republicans, and another 24% said they thought it was “a minor problem.” Only 32% of respondents said it wasn’t a problem.
Transphobia was the second most likely issue to be labeled a problem by respondents, after “hostility toward immigrants.” “Tolerance of political violence,” “conspiracy thinking,” “white supremacy,” “homophobia,” and “fascism” followed closely behind.
Oddly, 40% of respondents said that “transgender ideology” was “a major problem” for Republicans, and another 20% said it was “a minor problem.” 41% said that they didn’t think it was a problem at all for Republicans.
EVERYONE is too obsessed with trans folks on both sides. There aren’t enough people in that bucket to have an ideology against OR build a political identity around. We got bigger fish to fry no matter what side of the aisle you’re on. It sounds crass even to say and it doesn’t feel like it’s the case on Lemmy, but it’s true. Less than 3 of 100 people.
Where exactly does any of the sourced material show that the opinion “Republicans are too obsessed with trans people” is being held at all, much less among what proportion? How is “too obsessed” even defined?
That headline is infested with weasels.
speaking anecdotally in a liberal/leftie city… I can’t walk down the street without being bombared with trans flags and can’t have a convo without it coming up once or twice.
in my expereince it’s the liberal/leftie who is totally obsessed with trans people. mostly because they want to morally grand stand on the issue. very few trans people exist here and all the of talk never involves them. it’s just rich liberal people trying to show off how woke they are to each other. it’s bizarre and unnatural how trans people are like invoked on semi regular basis now, 3 years ago it was never discussed. now it’s become this rallying cry.
there is also increasingly a push to normalize/promote polygamy and other alternative lifestyles as if they are equally as oppressed as trans people. shit’s wild. my nephew’s middle school during pride month displayed all 50+ alt sexual/gender flags. it was insane. i don’t understand why we are teaching 12 year olds about BDSM/allosexuality. he was quizzed on identifying like 20 different flags, and stuff like the onmisexuality and pan sexuality, among other absurd/inconsequential ‘identities’. i asked him about it and in his mind it doesn’t matter, it’s just another stupid thing he has to learn he could care less about.
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Ironically, you just proved the article’s point.
That’s weird. I voted Democrat my entire life. Didn’t know I was a republican.
Guess I should start voting for Republicans now? I suppose you also assume I hate transpeople too?
i suppose my ignorance of allosexuality is also very harmful and offensive.
You complain about BDSM. Okay. Where were you when 50 Shades of Grey dropped?
I participant in BDSM. I knew about it a decade before 50 Shades of Grey. Thanks.
I don’t think 12 year olds should be talking about BDSM it in a 6th grade health class. they should be talking about biology, not queer theory. Sexuality is a private matter that people should figure out for themselves, they shouldn’t be ‘educated’ about it by a public school. They have plenty of time to learn queer theory in college. But for some reason ‘progressive’ schools insist on pushing college-level theoretical discourse on pubescent children.
They also shouldn’t be studying quantum mechanics either, because they haven’t even taken Algebra 1 yet. This is the same school, btw that decided to cancel advanced math classes in 8th grade because it was ‘oppressive’ to minority students who were underrepresented in those classes. That decision caused so much outrage they had to walk it back. but that took a full year, screwing many kids out of advanced classes.
Call me a facist I guess, but I don’t think kids should the victims of political ideologies being shoved down their throats by activists/extremists. I don’t think my nephews should be forced to pray to God in school either. They should just be there to learn basic skills and basic facts. They should be taught LGBT people exist, and that’s it. They shoud be taught about major world religions too. But They should not be taught what to think about them or get caught up in other people’s sexuality/gender debates about the difference between all 50 pride flags, just also doesn’t need to know about the 50+ orders of the Catholic church and their missions/doctrines. (he can learn about that if he studies theology in college). The standard LGBT flag is enough for a 12 year old.
You’ve given no evidence to your accusations. The fact you so quickly brushed 50 Shades of Grey - an erotic fanfic turned film that had a theatrical fucking release - so quickly just you can whine about trans people again says more about you than me.
Pride month, June, when schools are out for summer, is when your nephew’s middle school was quizzed about LGBT sexuality? And that’s a totally real thing that happened without getting any coverage from a right wing outrage farm?
Bullshit.
Deny it all you want. I was in the school and saw it with my own eyes. every hall was plastered with the 50+ pride flags and when I asked him about it that’s what he said. It’s part of the curriculum for them to know the differences in pride flags now.
I think it would make sense in queer studies class in college. But why a middle school should be be expected to now the difference btween BDSM and allosexuality and their flags, i have no clue. But that is the werido world we live in now. Kid doesn’t even have an interest in girls yet and he’s expected to know these things so he doesn’t oppress anyone or something.
Hey, I’m not going to deny that trans and LGB+ rights haven’t garnered more attention lately.
But you said “for the past 3 years”.
I’m sorry…when did the first bathroom bills gain popularity? Was it 2016ish? I feel like it was 2016ish.
Republicans have ALWAYS been obsessed with the genitalia of strangers.
Its one of the smallest group of people they can demonize. They wouldn’t want a large group that might demonize them. They’ve got that now too but it wasn’t what they wanted.
Gotta hate someone if you’re a conservative.
Black people. Hispanic people. Immigrants in general (unless they’re white). Gays. Trans. Furries. Doesn’t matter. And they’ll cycle through them too. Come back around a few years later to one they haven’t focused on in a while.
Because they lead pathetic lives that aren’t interesting enough, so they have to force themselves on other’s lives.
Truly, they are wastes of oxygen.
Conservative mindset is that everything is in a hierarchy, the hierarchy is a Good and Natural thing to exist, and therefore even if you’re not at the top, there Must be someone beneath you. And then trying to make their lives better puts the wrong people in the hierarchy, so they must be stopped. It’s miserably sad I assume.
There just aren’t that many trans people compared to how often conservatives make a big issue of them. And the number of times that a trans person has actually caused a tangible problem for other people in a way that is related to their being trans is even more rare. Not that it doesn’t happen, but it might as well be a unicorn.
That’s an easy way to tell for sure that they are using the issue as a distraction.
It’s not really a distraction, IMO. The enforcement of gender norms is kind of essential for conservative ideology. The idea that someone can transgress or opt-out from the enforcement of their rules is anathema to them.
If people assigned female at birth can become male and vice-versa, then all of the biological essentialism they believe in, that women are one way and men another due to their inherent characteristics, is proven false. It’s an important part of their ideology and without it a lot of other enforced heirarchies they care about inherently fall apart.
Sadly, a lot of the left is really naive to just how fucking evil these kinds of people are.
They worked hard to craft the narrative around trans people as the new sub-human scourge trying to destroy our nation etc. It was deliberate from the start, they picked a group that has low representation and low population, whom average people don’t understand or connect with.
You don’t fix this kind of thing with education, outreach and lecturing. You fix this with regime change. All of the transphobic chuds and all of the terfs have the attention-spans and emotional consistency of toddlers, that’s why they were vulnerable to the narrative to begin with. If we had new leadership who, no matter what ideology they represented, said “trans people ain’t a big deal and we ain’t going after them” you would see vast waves of people lose interest and start looking for the next target to hate and scapegoat.
I dunno. Personally, I think both can be true. Project 2025, for example, was published in 2023 and went largely under the radar for months, likely making the rounds at CPAC. It wasn’t until discovered a year later that the GOP was forced to go into damage control. It’s obvious no one was supposed to know about it. So, yeah, all that transphobic hate they spew is no doubt genuine but it’s probably hiding something more sinister as well.
Thank you for saying this. I’ve come to the same conclusion and try to spread the word here and elsewhere.
Not distraction, scapegoat. Fascism needs an “others” demographic to blame for citizens’ hardships, and they have realized that it’s more effective to have multiple of them so voters can cherry-pick whichever they feel more strongly about.
Straight, cis men cause a hell of a lot more problems statistically than any trans person, yet we don’t see Republicans calling for them to be banned.
That’s a very good point.
This is bad news for the Republicans, because all this hatred is intended to distract attention from how shamelessly the elite is enriching itself at the expense of the country - and also from other crimes, such as those documented in the Epstein files.
If their voters also realize that hatred of foreigners and the wars waged by the regime are one and the same thing, they will really have a lot to explain…
They fear what they don’t understand.
To be fair they are.
I have a trans younger sister and one of my brothers is dating a trans woman. My dad is pretty MAGA and I have to hear about my sister “deciding they were trans” after going to therapy at every family get together. Yes, they are definitely way too obsessed.
Ask him when he decided to be cis/straight.
just curious, what’s that going to do?
Republicans: Groceries are too high! Let’s blame it on the trans!
They are.
