IPSOS Pride report 2026

Attaching the numbers helps.

There is no excuse for not sampling Ireland profonde, surely?

I then added up this scores to see who was having the biggest gap in thinking. This gives you an idea about the range of diversity of opinion and thoughts within a country. The higher you are, the more you support protections for trans people but also think 'its a bit more complicated' than simply replacing sex with gender.

Yes the UK head the list. But Sweden really aren't far behind us in thinking.

The least diversity in thought and the country most happy with merely replacing sex with gender is hmm... Turkiye.

What's fascinating is how countries with the most gendered societies compare with the ones which have the least rigid gendered roles in society.

Its almost as if the countries with the least gendered roles have the greatest nuance factor going on. And its definitely not a thing that only exists in the UK.

Its almost as if compliance with replacing sex with gender is directly related to the importance of men's rights / absence of the importance of women's rights.

Who'd thunk?

Can someone show this survey to Owen Jones the next time he starts banging on about that ILGA Rainbow Map. Thinking that single sex spaces and sports are important and that children shouldn't be given puberty blockers, doesn't mean that people think trans people should be discriminated against.

Also, will TRAs ever accept that they have lost on sport?

Is sport a priority for basement dwelling computer nerds and anime fans who hate their bodies? (Genuine question)

Its only of interest to a certain degree to this group and its more about it being a tool for general legitimacy.

The reason we have been dubbed Terf Island is over where the UK differs significantly on opinion about access to single sex spaces. Its the only area where we stand out as having a particularly nuanced conversation compared to other countries - and its not as if this conversation is none existent in other places.

This opens up other questions about why this particular conversation is the one that's causing the drama. The UK actually is scoring 74% in favour of support for protections for transpeople. Thats just ONE PERCENT less than Ireland and EXACTLY THE SAME as Australia.

This idea that the UK is dangerous for trans people is just not consistent with this polling. If we go on following TRA doctrine Turkiye scores well and thats just nuts when you look at opposition to transrights there.

Turkiye has by far the highest opposition to protections.

The UK on the other hand has one of the lowest levels of opposition to protections. As does Sweden and France.

Given the screams of 'genocide' and the UK not being safe for trans people this data simply doesn't match the reality of public opinion.

This is a great thread, thanks @ArabellaScott for posting and analysis and @RedToothBrush for your calculations.

I would suggest the UK has a very supportive live and let live attitude overall but a 'don't take the fucking piss out of me and treat me like a bloody gullible fool' cavet to that.

Probably driven by the antics of the batshit activists themselves.

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’.

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.

Exactly this.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

It’s what I think they think too.

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.

@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