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how trans friendly is your area?

91 replies

kieronsmum · 15/12/2019 11:37

election.unherd.com/gender/

my area is very supportive

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LetsSplashMummy · 15/12/2019 17:11

Mine is really high for immigration and near the bottom for religion, more than 600 places different - I would have thought that sort of tolerance went hand in hand, so I take it a little bit with a pinch of salt.

mindproject · 15/12/2019 17:06

Who actually cares about this insignificant stuff?

MrsKCastle · 15/12/2019 17:00

It's an utterly meaningless question. I could answer strongly agree OR strongly disagree, depending on how I interpret the question.

TheProdigalKittensReturn · 15/12/2019 16:51

Which, I know I keep saying it, but again, bait and switch.

TheProdigalKittensReturn · 15/12/2019 16:49

The question was worded in such as a way as to garner maximum agreement, I think. If they'd asked if people think rapists should be able to self ID into women's prisons that map would be solid dark pink with just a few dots representing the woke uni students.

HandsOffMyRights · 15/12/2019 16:46

I'm really sceptical about my city.

When we went out on the streets, the public were extremely concerned about self ID.

Did pollsters just go into Lush and ask the blue haired assistants a few questions I wonder?

TheProdigalKittensReturn · 15/12/2019 16:35

All the B cities and towns seem very woke - Bristol, Brighton, even Birmingham. The support in Leeds is lower than the local council seems to think it is.

NettleTea · 15/12/2019 16:30

lol. Im next door to Hastings and Rye. Its a hotbed of TERFness there thank god

HandsOffMyRights · 15/12/2019 16:24

I wonder if this was like one of the useless and inaccurate Brexit polls in 2016?

Is there a poll on how middle aged-women friendly areas are? If not, why not?
Middle aged rights are human rights!!

SimonJT · 15/12/2019 16:20

Ranked as 22nd.

how trans friendly is your area?
BarbaraStrozzi · 15/12/2019 16:17

Beyond, how did you know I have a Honda Civic? Wink

HandsOffMyRights · 15/12/2019 16:14

I'd pay money to see a blue haired Uber-woke student trying to tell a farmer that sex isn't binary.

Me too!

BeyondVotesForFlube · 15/12/2019 16:08

Bunbury would probably advise against posts long the lines of...

My constituency ranks 453. There is a nearby university, however the majority of my area in the north east of the constituency is working class, brexit voting, daily mail reading and has a conventional "men are men" view of gender. However, as the only radical lesbian feminist mother of five who lives near a stream in my area, I know that my view - while technically on the same side of the poll as there's does not tally. Hope my post isn't too outing, I don't want anyone to put through the windows on my white 3bed semi with a red door and a blue Honda Civic parked on the drive.

TheProdigalKittensReturn · 15/12/2019 16:04

I'd pay money to see a blue haired Uber-woke student trying to tell a farmer that sex isn't binary.

"You go try to milk that bull over there, then. Off you go, pet, what are you waiting for?"

BarbaraStrozzi · 15/12/2019 16:00

It's like Sir Humphrey explaining to Jim Hacker how to rig a questionnaire. "Do you want to instill a bit of military discipline into the lazy, feckless workshy youth of today?" versus "do you want gangs of disaffected youth with military training roaming the streets?"

Similar thing going on here I think. I suspect "do you want to put confused teenagers, many of whom may be confused about their gender identity due to autism or past sexual abuse, on a one way path to irreversible surgery, sterility and a lifetime's dependence on drugs?" You might get a somewhat different answer.

Lysistrataknowsherstuff · 15/12/2019 16:00

V dubious - they got the percentage of leave voters wrong in my constituency and the neighbouring one. At any rate, it's common sense that a rural backwater whose nearest major city is 60 miles away and not a university in sight is not going to be woke at all. I'd pay money to see a blue haired Uber-woke student trying to tell a farmer that sex isn't binary.

jay55 · 15/12/2019 15:48

6th ffs.

QuantumEntanglement · 15/12/2019 15:46

FFS. Looks like I missed the vicious hatred - again! It’s almost like it doesn’t really exist although clearly it does otherwise people wouldn't keep mentioning it would they? Someone call me next time ‘k?

ErrolTheDragon · 15/12/2019 15:44

The 'gender' question isn't about being 'trans friendly' anyway, it's whether you trust adolescents to make radically life-changing decisions (which may result in sterility) without adult guidance. Hmm

PhilbricksCat · 15/12/2019 15:44

How was this data obtained/measured?

It looks extremely dubious to me. According to that site my constituency is ranked #621 most supportiveout of 632 constituencies for supporting free speech.

Fieldofgreycorn · 15/12/2019 15:37

Relevance to feminist board?

Horse stable door bolted

feelingverylazytoday · 15/12/2019 15:35

Just found my town, we were ranked 548th.

ErrolTheDragon · 15/12/2019 15:33

Somewhere around 500, somewhat similar to its ranking on support for religion as the basis of morality.

Reassuringly rational.

NotTerfNorCis · 15/12/2019 15:33

Mine's near the middle, but the bottom half.

feelingverylazytoday · 15/12/2019 15:31

I couldn't find my town, but I would guess it was unsupportive. You just don't see boys wearing dresses here, though I have seen the odd girl who I would guess is presenting as a boy. We're not a uni town though, more a traditional working/lower middle class area.
I was on the bus a few months ago when a man in a pink dress got on, and everyone just ignored him.