Yougov poll on what Britons think of L,G,B, and T people.

I wonder what the Lesbians were though? A woman who is in a relationship with a tw might call herself a lesbian. Although they've separated for sex, it still seems they may have allowed a tw to call himself a lesbian. As for tm, feck knows!

So an individual whose job description is “Head of Data Journalism” wrote an article about the views of “the queer community” and “young queer Britons” without defining “queer” or specifying how youGov went about identifying “1,000 queer Britons”?

I note that the use of “sexual minorities” could mean that yougov’s definition of the “queer community” goes wider than same-sex orientation (and could, presumably, include heterosexuals who are into swinging, BDSM, or other sexual interests).

Then, having limited their survey to “queer Britons” they found that 53% of those “queer Britons” who answered this survey included the letter Q in their preferred acronym. Well, there’s a surprise.

And what on earth is this supposed to mean? “plus represents those who don’t identify with one of the letters in the acronym” So how are they part of the group then? Is the plus intended to cover BDSM and swinging?

@ArabeIIaScott ah yes so it does, and I just looked it up and I actually meant 35%didn't understand, not 30 %. That makes more sense for T. 39% minus 35% equals 4% which is probably about right.

Not forgetting the recent poll that found many in the UK, especially young people, didn't really know what a trans person was!

Clearly any survey like this needs to set out in advance what they mean by the terms they use.

That was my reaction, too. I have no idea how I would answer this survey. Maybe ask if the question could be reworded?

Well I wonder if it is bad? If I was asked, I would be indifferent. The same as I would with any other group of people. Somebody is gay, or straight, or lesbian, or black, or disabled, or anything, it's just a shrug of the shoulder, so what, I have no option either way on whether some group is good or bad, that's down to the individuals within. I'll reserve my judgement for them when I know them.

80% are either positive or neutral though. I think I would have put neutral- I think it's great that gay and lesbian people can love who they want, but it doesn't make me feel positive about them as individuals in and of itself iyswim.

What I did find interesting was that gay men are less likely to be positive about transgender people than lesbians (the most positive group I think). Opposite to what I would have expected.

I think if you lump them all in together, yes, the response will be positive.

Separate out the T bit though, and (given last weeks news that 30% didn't actually realise that TW means men) tell them what it means...and the results would be very different...

Sorry, 44% towards L and G and 50% towards B.

How sad that 44% of the respondents are not positive towards L, G and B though. I mean I've encountered this homophobia and biphobia in my life but it still surprises me that it's so high in this day and age.