r/actuallesbians demographics survey (1802 responses)

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[–]nautilistic 62 insightful - 4 fun62 insightful - 3 fun63 insightful - 4 fun -  (11 children)

I don't believe for a second that over 60% are actual lesbians there.

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 42 insightful - 8 fun42 insightful - 7 fun43 insightful - 8 fun -  (5 children)

"Cisgender women" does not mean lesbians specifically. And it is just survey. Accounts posting in different subs overlap is showing that transgender people there much more than anyone else: https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/actuallesbians

As I am understanding from the description, this means that 55 times more users from /r/actualelsbians are posting in /r/mtf, 43 more times in /r/asktransgender, 40 more times in /r/egg_irl and 39 more times in /r/traaans than in most other subreddits and third or quarter of those numbers posting more there than in /r/askwomen. For every user of /r/actuallesbians who posted in /r/askwomen there will be at least 14 users posted in /r/mtf, 11 users posted in /r/asktransgender, 10 users posted in /r/egg_irl and 9-10 users posted in /r/traaans.

So "cisgender" women there should be a huge minority (at least judging by activity), and even among them majority seems to be just bisexual women.

[–]Dravidian 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Yeah this is the correct statistic to look at when trying to guess what percentage is trans. The answer is an overwhelming majority. More people in actuallesbians (55 times) are also posting in mtf than there's people from /lgbt posting in /trans (46). Seeing that /lgbt is already overwhelmingly trans... God. This is so upsetting.

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Situation is sad: https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/lgbt

At least AskGayBros are holding their ground: https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/askgaybros - all top overlapping subreddits are about gay men or about men. Similar was with /r/truelesbians, who were overlapping with women or lesbian subreddits, unlike /r/actuallesbians, which is overlaps almost predominantly with trans.

Actually looks like all gay subreddits are still mainly filled with gay men: https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/gay

While none of (not banned) lesbian subs is with lesbians. Ones that were filled with lesbians were banned.

[–]VioletRemiCat, homosexual one 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lesbian erasure started many ears ago, while grown up gay men (as gay boys are "transed the gay away") started being focused by trans activists only recently. So yeah~

[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

We are fighting but /r/askgaybros is heavily under attack from women larping as gay men and they are incredibly aggressive.

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

There are not. The number is about 30% when you take out all the people who identified as "lesbian" and something else incompatible-- "transwoman" and "lesbian", "bisexual" and "lesbian", etc.

edit: s/lgbdropthet link: https://saidit.net/s/LGBDropTheT/comments/64fv/one_in_three_people_on_ractuallesbians_is_a/nuc6

a little more on s/lesbians: https://saidit.net/s/Lesbians/comments/64mp/i_did_some_data_analysis_on_the_al_demographics/

And that number may be lower. "Garbage in, garbage out" when it comes to data, and I have heard of transwomen saying just "women" or "female" or even rarely "biological female/woman" when describing themselves.

[–]Ninaran 40 insightful - 11 fun40 insightful - 10 fun41 insightful - 11 fun -  (1 child)

"You can tick multiple"

Wat?

[–]NeedMoreCoffee~=[,,_,,]=^_^= 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ye that makes it pretty much useless.

[–]annoyed 28 insightful - 1 fun28 insightful - 0 fun29 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That sub is an absolute dumpsterfire. It makes me legitimately so sad and angry.

[–]denverkrisMy pronouns are Vodka?/Yes!/please 23 insightful - 4 fun23 insightful - 3 fun24 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

As a bisexual woman I was banned from that sub for saying that no lesbian has a dick or fucks with dicks.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 13 insightful - 6 fun13 insightful - 5 fun14 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

Can I steal the 'Vodka?/Yes!/Please' for future use? That's genius.

[–]denverkrisMy pronouns are Vodka?/Yes!/please 10 insightful - 8 fun10 insightful - 7 fun11 insightful - 8 fun -  (0 children)

Be my guest, but you owe me a drink ;)

[–]Elvira95Viva la figa 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Real lesbians are a minority. Most must to be bisexuals or just bi-curios.

[–]votkriscan 20 insightful - 4 fun20 insightful - 3 fun21 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

As MezozoicGay pointed out, that "demographics survey" is fake cosplay stats. It's a poll asking their users what gender they are. If I'm someone who believes in self-identification, I can claim anything. I can claim to be a lost descendant of Cleopatra.

However, the official Reddit algorithms and pulled data don't lie and they show a completely different story.

https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/actuallesbians

Nearly 60% of the population are trans. Next 30%+ are bisexual women. The rest lesbians or other. And this makes sense. The trans want to imagine themselves as biological women, don't they? If not they wouldn't be doing this. They wouldn't be transgender.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

u/reluctant_commenter has done some analysis on this.

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

Ah, thanks for the heads up!! I don't know how I missed this thread, lol. Shoulda caught it while it was hot!

[–]slushpilot 7 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Only slightly higher than the stated 0.3% in the general population there.

[–]reluctant_commenter 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Just in case anyone was interested-- I think this is the same dataset I did an analysis on, a few months ago: https://saidit.net/s/LGBDropTheT/comments/64fv/one_in_three_people_on_ractuallesbians_is_a/nuc6

I found that at (estimated) maximum, 31% of the people on r/actuallesbians are actually lesbians (same-sex-attracted female)-- and 48% of people who self-describe as lesbian on r/actuallesbians, are lesbians. (Keeping in mind However, these numbers may actually be lower in reality, because some transwomen like to mark answers suggesting their biological sex is female and that they aren't trans.

Would love to talk about more if anyone wants to. :)

edit: wrong link lol. Also, this is a fantastic image! Did you make it?