IPSOS Pride report 2026

Given the reality denying TRAs antics and the increasingly visible and unreasonable demands led by men with questionable and sometimes violent histories, I was worried LGB people would face greater discrimination or intolerance because of the forced teaming.

It’s a relief to read that the actually quite tolerant British nature remains LGB accepting (as it should) and hope that there is greater recognition of LGB✂T.

Yes, I think it is that whole 'male hierarchy' thing that men immerse themselves in. They seem to relate to each other very much through that lens. However, when I dug a bit deeper, they were able to understand why women might need or want single-sex sports and spaces. They had simply accepted their existence, without really questioning why we need them. So, hopefully, they have learnt something. Tbf, I think a lot of the silly women who support this stupidity have never really had cause to understand why we need these spaces too.

It's great to see that despite the very heavily biased wording of this survey, it's yet another professional poll that shows the vast majority of people in the UK want single sex spaces.

Why aren't more politicians taking this on board?

@gayhistorynerd I have a sneaking suspicion that many people are against all public displays of affection, same sex or not.

Yes, its likely higher against same sex, but I do wonder what the percentage would be for mixed sex PDAs

Sounds very like the Tit for Tat strategy in action, if the men who are cheating go back to not cheating the men who objected to their cheating would go back to not caring. Because as you say they don't care about the effect the cheating has on women or sport, they just care about themselves losing out in some perceived way because they're not cheating.

It’s what I think they think too.

Having worked in a uni and having friends who work in the NHS I am shocked at how many workplaces fail to keep abreast of the privately held views of their employees and just go along with whatever their “LGBT allies network” (god I loathe that terminology) tell them is the right thing to do. It will be a cold day in hell before I put my ‘pronouns in bio’ or wear a trans pride lanyard. Pride, yup I’m cool with that. Trans? FO!

Hell yeh! The TRAs taking the piss in the past few years have done trans people no favours whatsoever. No trans person I know wants to use the bathroom / sport of the sex they identify into. They just want to get accepted in the bathroom of their bio sex.

I think that is plausible @Heggettypeg .

Wrt sport, questioning of my male relatives revealed that it is not so much the threat to women's sport that they object to, rather it is that men do not like other men being given an unfair advantage. They object to the cheating that might lead to them getting medals that other men would not be able to get. It was a similar story with single-sex spaces. It wasn't the unfairness or threat to women that immediately bothered them, it was the fact that the sacred caste was being allowed to go somewhere that other men weren't allowed (even though the other men did not actually want to go there!).

I thought that they were interesting insights, though from an incredibly small and unrepresentative sample.

I have a theory about this , though I may be wrong:

I think a lot of people are very familiar with the idea of a "women's refuge" as something set up by and for women, and ditto rape trauma support, but less aware that there are also men being helped to escape domestic violence and recover from sexual assault.

So the picture in their minds of a transwoman excluded from those places is not of someone who can, and would be, helped elsewhere, but of a victim left with nowhere to turn.

Interesting! someone mentioned up thread, or possibly on another thread altogether, that Ladyboys were a part of their culture and had been for a long time. I wonder if the same sex marriage will change that, if gay men can now have relations in the open will the numbers of Ladyboys drop.

Yes, the apparent complacent acceptance of this is very odd indeed.

Quite.

I am reminded of the piss protests on the front of the EHRC offices, the moob protests somewhere in London, not to mention the terrorist threats and threats of violence, some of which forced THE ENTIRE EHRC TO MOVE THEIR OFFICES TO A SECRET LOCATION. (I am still stunned that a) this happened and b) the media seem uninterested in this horrendous behaviour).

I wonder if any arrests have been made relating to this yet? The Met seem quite fast to apprehend other online criminals.

I remember reading before that the majority of them are attracted to other men. Basically they are effeminate gay men, which many women don't perceive to have the same threat level as other men.

I'm not sure if middle age men donning a wig and calling themselves lesbians (see
Melissa Poulton) is a thing in Thailand as it is here.

I believe the Thai notion of transwomen is very different to ours. The ladyboys are a big part of their culture, and when I was there the people I spoke to about how 'our' trans behaved were pretty shocked. It's a pretty small sample though tbh, I was on holiday so wasn't interrogating the locals!

Exactly this.

Thank you for all this, Arabella and Red, really informative and useful!
It counters the accusation that lesbian and gay rights are under threat where opposition to the excesses of gender ideology is strongest.
LGB✂T.

You have to remember that in Transwonderland words mean different things. In Transwonderland genocide no more means ‘deliberate mass-murder of an ethnic group’, than woman means ‘adult female human’.

Probably driven by the antics of the batshit activists themselves.