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[–]worried19 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This year, the significant erosion is being driven by females ages 18-34, where comfort levels fell from 64% last year to 52% this year.

I think we all know why, but this organization would never dream of seriously exploring the cause. They lump all of LGBT together, when everyone can tell the LGB side of things is not what's triggering the decline.

[–]DistantGlimmer 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I worry there may be a backlash against LGB people in fact because the groups are lumped together with the T by people who do not follow the issue closely.

[–]worried19 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I also feel sorry for the trans people out there who are trying to live their lives quietly and now have to deal with their community being hijacked by what are basically extremists.

I wonder if it might be beneficial for them to found some sort of organization. There's power in numbers, and they're in a position to speak out and actually be listened to.

[–]DistantGlimmer 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I think it was bad for them when it changed from transsexuals to the very poorly defined "transgender umbrella" which includes a huge variety of people and the transsexuals became very outnumbered. Hopefully, they can take their movement back somehow (as the people without dysphoria seems to be the ones who cause most of the issues with women anyway regardless).