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[–][deleted] 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Their sub description is literally this so the only thing that surprised me is how high the percentage of self-reported "cis" lesbians is.

A place for discussions for and by cis and trans lesbians, bisexual girls, chicks who like chicks, bi-curious folks, dykes, butches, femmes, girls who kiss girls, birls, bois, aces, LGBT allies, and anyone else interested!

[–]TalerTest 20 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 0 fun21 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Lesbian means everyone apparently. I'm not buying that percentage of lesbians either. But if they are actual lesbians, then they must be either 1. really young 2. completely oblivious or 3. drunk on the kool aid. Can't see why any switched-on lesbian would be on that sub.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Someone else suggesting doing a breakdown on age, which I am about to go do now. The overview results that the subreddit posted suggest that the sub skews way young, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's a factor.

Also, drinking the kool-aid. There is a ton of peer pressure among people my age to accept this stuff, so I wouldn't be surprised. I used to exclusively lurk that sub before I found TL and went down the rabbit hole of transgender ideology.

edit: Just to update-- I did a breakdown of age in a comment, and in a graph. Your three points appear to be correct, and so are my numbers. They are really young-- almost twice as many in the "under 18" and "18-25" categories, as in the rest of the age categories. And as other people outlined as well.. there is a lot of kool-aid drinking going on, unfortunately.

[–]mangosplums 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Can you add the age results to the op? Thanks for this whole thing it’s really interesting.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah sure! No problem, glad you find it interesting :)

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I looked at the "cisgender woman" group and 6% of the people who marked that, also marked a trans category, another 6% marked questioning. I am confused as to why some people marked that they were a cis woman and also that they were trans, but who knows.

Someone else pointed out that some could just be straight-up lying about being cis-- we have kind of seen this with "I'm a bio woman!" from transwoman, so I guess that could be a factor too.

Also yeah, not surprising lol.

[–]VioletRemi 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There can be real lesbians, most likely closeted women from very homophobic countries, autistic lesbians and young/teen lesbians. Reddit is biggest forum, so they will end up there. In minds of most people West is lesbian heaven with all this homosexual marriages, lesbian/gay bars, and so on. So for people who either don't know how it is to be a lesbian at all, or they are very gullible, and to them it will be still weird to see all this strange "transbian" focus, but what they know in their closet, west should know more and explored more, right?

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

Yup, exactly. That is my inclination as well.