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[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Perhaps yes, the results may be very different. However, I notice all polls about trans issues have one thing in common. Some polls show an increase in support for trans rights. Others show a decrease in support for trans rights. But the one thing they all have in common is that women are significantly more likely to support trans rights than men. This is true for every poll I have seen that surveys both women and men. In fact, cis women are the biggest allies to trans people. I'd bet all my life savings that if there was a poll that informed participants beforehand that 85% of transwomen choose to keep their penises and use them sexually and that a large majority of transwomen are attracted to women, women would still be more supportive of trans rights than men.

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

Yes, when questioned about whether we support "rights" for minority groups, women are more likely than men to say yes. That is to women's credit. Even women like me who get painted as evil "terven" and bigots very much support the right of adults to dress, groom, present and "identify as" they like. We don't think that people who identify as the opposite sex, or of neither sex, should be unfairly discriminated against or mistreated.

But when you spell out the specifics of what the vague, intentionally anodyne term "trans rights" actually means, then women tend to see the conflicts and are less supportive of many of the unreasonable and male supremacist demands that are hiding under the cover of "trans rights."

Do you support trans rights? is a very different question to the questions that really need to be asked, such as

Do you think males should be able to compete in female sports?

When men and teenage boys say they "identify as" or "feel like" women/girls, should they be able to use women's single-sex locker rooms, changing rooms, showers, shelters, communal toilets, rape refuges, hospital wards and other spaces where girls and women are partly or fully naked and at their most vulnerable?

When a big strapping adult male like U Penn swimmer Lia Thomas or convicted sex offender Darren Merager goes into a women's changing area, spa, locker room or fitting room and exposes his dick and balls to the girls and women who are there, is it bigoted and hateful for the girls and women to feel discomfort or distress? Are the girls and women rude for taking notice and feeling alarmed? If someone is asked to leave the women's facilities and use another space, who should it be - the males, or the females?

Should violent males who've been convicted of murder, assault and battery, rape of women, child molestation, voyeurism, indecent exposure and serial murders of women and girls be incarcerated in women's prisons if they say they now "identify as" women themselves?

Is it fair to a female prison inmate to lock her in a cell with a male inmate who is not only much bigger and stronger than she is, but who has a history of assaulting and sexually abusing others and who in men's prison strangled his male cellmate to death with his bare hands? When such a male inmate rapes women he has been locked up with, and the women lodge complaints and file lawsuits, should the women be condemned for evincing "transphobia" and punished for their "bigotry"? (These details come from a case that's already happened in Illinois, USA.)