Most Americans believe that it’s a “problem” that Republicans are transphobic.

A new YouGov poll asked Americans whether they thought that certain issues were a “problem” for either party. 44% said that transphobia was “a major problem” among Republicans, and another 24% said they thought it was “a minor problem.” Only 32% of respondents said it wasn’t a problem.

Transphobia was the second most likely issue to be labeled a problem by respondents, after “hostility toward immigrants.” “Tolerance of political violence,” “conspiracy thinking,” “white supremacy,” “homophobia,” and “fascism” followed closely behind.

Oddly, 40% of respondents said that “transgender ideology” was “a major problem” for Republicans, and another 20% said it was “a minor problem.” 41% said that they didn’t think it was a problem at all for Republicans.

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    Rightists need vulnerable minority groups to demonize to keep their base together. They are united only by fear and hate, so fabricating a common enemy out of a weak group of victims is the only way they can gain or hold power.

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    They have Trans Derangement Syndrome. Most of them have never actually interacted with a trans person in their lives, but they’re fucking obsessed.

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      My aunt has a weird obsession with trans people. She told me in graphic detail how the surgeries work, apparently trying to argue it’s gross and therefore morally wrong (even though all surgeries are gross) and I was just like “why do you know this?” Why did she go out of her way to research something she’s so disgusted by? I don’t even remember the details she told me.

      And she is also distraught by the hypothetical idea of having to call her mother her father or call her father her mother. Neither of her parents have ever expressed any transgender tendencies and they never will because they’re long dead now.

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      They spend a lot of time thinking about transexuals having sex. Perhaps ashamed of their own predilections I suspect. Just like we have seen time and again with these preachers railing against gay people the most, come to find out many rail the gays in more ways than one.

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    I got a violation on reddit, on a sub someone posted about how there were 50 genders and he only slept with one, and had symbols for all the genders.

    I just posted he seemed to be spending a lot of time thinking about transexuals banging.

    Who knew triggering conservatives was against the rules? The ones crying the loudest about being cancelled see themselves as victims and justified in flagging everything that triggers them, that they don’t like.

    Just like vote theft. Convinced by their influencers the other guys are cheating they feel justified cheating to even the score. Unaware, or not caring that they were never the victims but the perpetrators, projecting on their victims.

    Their politicians and media rail against moderation and put pressure on social media when their people get moderated against. Meanwhile the democrats are conservative and want the left cancelled as much as anyone. They have nothing but contempt and spite for the left, and crave the approval of the right. So social media ends up discriminating against the left.

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      Conservatives don’t cancel, in their minds, because being cancelled is inherently unjust according to them. It’s unjust because it pretty much only happens to them as they’re the ones doing heinous shit to people, and they don’t pay attention when someone who isn’t openly conservative gets cancelled for bad behaviour.

      They live in the alternate relaity built for them by their media and they lack the ability to pause when they hear something a little crazy and check it out.

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    I have a trans younger sister and one of my brothers is dating a trans woman. My dad is pretty MAGA and I have to hear about my sister “deciding they were trans” after going to therapy at every family get together. Yes, they are definitely way too obsessed.

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    Gotta hate someone if you’re a conservative.

    Black people. Hispanic people. Immigrants in general (unless they’re white). Gays. Trans. Furries. Doesn’t matter. And they’ll cycle through them too. Come back around a few years later to one they haven’t focused on in a while.

    Because they lead pathetic lives that aren’t interesting enough, so they have to force themselves on other’s lives.

    Truly, they are wastes of oxygen.

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      Conservative mindset is that everything is in a hierarchy, the hierarchy is a Good and Natural thing to exist, and therefore even if you’re not at the top, there Must be someone beneath you. And then trying to make their lives better puts the wrong people in the hierarchy, so they must be stopped. It’s miserably sad I assume.

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        You don’t need to assume. It’s pretty obvious how pathetic it is even from the outside.

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    Ok but why in the name of whatever, have they voted an male person that is a heavily makeup user. That is something that is normally only associated with transpersons. Where is my mistake…

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    I felt one huge let down when a parent told me that they voted for Trump because of trans athletes in school sports.

    That was when I knew that they had another person in their life other than my other parent. They are still married. And this outside person is influencing one of them. I had suspected it, but now I see the influence this person has over my parent is scary.

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    Well, “Americans” are right about that.

    Fuck, I barely hear anything from Democrats or the left about trans except to A) acknowledge they exist and B) they have that right to exist.

    Nearly every conversation about trans seems to be something initiated by the crazy, unhinged out of touch right wing. Same thing when it comes to things like furries and supposed litter boxes in schools…

    It seems they moved on to feverishly thinking about trans nearly 24/7 now that gay marriage is no longer as politically divisive as it once appeared…they keep on trying to cast everyone else as being weird with dumb phrases like “what is a woman? can you define what a woman even is?” and other such tripe, trying to paint Democrats as being out of touch.

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      Fuck, I barely hear anything from Democrats or the left about trans except to A) acknowledge they exist and B) they have that right to exist.

      I seem to recall a bunch of conservative Democrats insisting Transgender voters cost the party the 2024 election.

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    Do Republicants spend any of their waking hours not fretting and obsessing over the genitalia of strangers?

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      I feel that conservatives catch so much flak about all the child fucking that they think we would judge them for their non-destructive sexual interests. And that drives them to act out against things the pique their interests. Like, it’s okay… no one cares. Except about the whole child fucking thing… stop doing that.

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    Only 32% of respondents said it wasn’t a problem.

    I’m getting so sick of seeing that same number in every “Do you hate thy neighbor?”-type of survey

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      That’s my go to response with anyone saying “you aren’t conservative/republican/christian/religious” to me. No, sorry, I have better things to do than hate people I don’t know.

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    Its one of the smallest group of people they can demonize. They wouldn’t want a large group that might demonize them. They’ve got that now too but it wasn’t what they wanted.

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    I figure most of them will never cross paths with anyone LGBTQ+, and the rest are too dumb to realise that their best friend is.