Turns out the British public has more positive views of lgbt people than the British media would suggest. Cis lesbians are tied with cis bisexual for expressing the most supportive views on trans people
Article date: August 11, 2023
Some encouraging news.
Really glad they did this research - especially because YouGov is a credible, well-regarded, and fairly accurate pollster. They’re one of the most prominent polling organizations in the UK. So it’s not like just anyone is giving these numbers - you can have a fair amount of confidence in them.
Given British media and assholes online, I definitely would not have called that cis lesbians and cis bisexuals are tied for most supportive of trans people. Very, very nice to hear.
Reblogged this already, but coming back to it because I want to say: cis people want trans people in queer spaces. I’ve met a couple of trans women who feel nervous about going to queer events because they are afraid they aren’t wanted, or they don’t belong, or they will be making cis lesbians uncomfortable. This is not true. Do not let the small minority of online brainrot get to you.
In my experience, cis lesbians do not merely begrudgingly tolerate trans women, they want trans women (and people all across the trans spectrum) there. Cis lesbians want to hear your voice and your perspective on womanhood. You bring so much to the table on these conversations, and enrich the space for everyone involved. Sometimes queer women have a very complicated or even traumatic relationship with femininity, and seeing someone who earnestly enjoys femininity, who chooses it, can be so healing. You are wanted at the luncheons and the book clubs and the bar crawls. The enbies that want to talk about how they DIY’d their gender, the trans men that will talk of the masculine urge to sweep a lady off her feet, and the trans women who embrace womanhood are all wonderful, valuable facets of the queer community. Please never forget that you are part of it.
Did you guys know the “Sickos” artist made a Sicko thats a WGA screenwriter on strike (said comic artist is a The Onion satirist comic artist and his name is Stan Kelly)
i love when fic writers who have clearly never tried any kind of alcohol in their lives try to write someone drinking bc they’re always like
“he ordered a tall glass of hard liquor. after three large glasses he was feeling tipsy” like babygirl i can’t be sure but i think u just sent this man to the hospital
my coworker was talking about how horrible shrooms are and I was like “ok tell me about the contexts in which you have tried them” and then she was shocked to be told that maybe eating them at crowded indoor parties with florescent lights and people you don’t like isn’t the way to do it
I think ive said it before but you really gotta feel bad for oedipus that wanting to fuck your mother got named after him. He really did not want to do that . It is central to oedipus rex how badly he didnt want to do that. Dick move by freud
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