Beehaw
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
dirtmayor ( dirtmayor@beehaw.org )  to World NewsEnglish · 3 years ago

Almost 7% of people in UK changed sexual identity in six years, study suggests

www.theguardian.com

external-link
message-square
29
link
fedilink
76
external-link

Almost 7% of people in UK changed sexual identity in six years, study suggests

www.theguardian.com

dirtmayor ( dirtmayor@beehaw.org )  to World NewsEnglish · 3 years ago
message-square
29
link
fedilink
Research challenges ideas about coming out, with those aged over 65 almost as ‘sexually fluid’ as young
  • probodyne ( probodyne@feddit.uk ) 
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    61
    ·
    3 years ago

    Well that’s just what happens when people are able to be themselves

    • SanguinePar ( sanguinepar@lemmy.world ) 
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      3 years ago

      What happened in the early 1900s?

      • Stormyfemme ( Stormyfemme@beehaw.org ) 
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        31
        ·
        3 years ago

        They tried to beat it out of children.

        • ArtVandelay ( ArtVandelay@beehaw.org ) 
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          12
          ·
          edit-2
          3 years ago

          deleted by creator

          • Stormyfemme ( Stormyfemme@beehaw.org ) 
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            7
            ·
            3 years ago

            It was a sign of the devil. Hence the term sinister.

            • ArtVandelay ( ArtVandelay@beehaw.org ) 
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              3
              ·
              edit-2
              3 years ago

              deleted by creator

        • SanguinePar ( sanguinepar@lemmy.world ) 
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          10
          ·
          3 years ago

          FFS…

          • Stormyfemme ( Stormyfemme@beehaw.org ) 
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            10
            ·
            3 years ago

            Just like they did with queer people much more recently! It didn’t work either time.

            • SanguinePar ( sanguinepar@lemmy.world ) 
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              7
              ·
              3 years ago

              When will people learn to stop being shitty to each other…? :-(

              • YuzuDrink ( YuzuDrink@beehaw.org ) 
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                11
                ·
                3 years ago

                …when we beat it out of them…? /s

                • SanguinePar ( sanguinepar@lemmy.world ) 
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  6
                  ·
                  3 years ago

                  Lmao!

              • pizzaboi ( chris@lemm.ee ) 
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                3
                ·
                3 years ago

                When the world ends in like 10 years.

                • SanguinePar ( sanguinepar@lemmy.world ) 
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  3
                  ·
                  3 years ago

                  Any chance we could get that down to five?

      • Abridgedlife ( Abridgedlife@latte.isnot.coffee ) 
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        3 years ago

        Probably increased public education.

    • heartlessevil ( heartlessevil@lemmy.one ) 
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      3 years ago

      Yep I instantly remembered that graph.

      The fact that a lot of older people are also coming out shows that it isn’t just zoomers either like some people try to allege.

    • femboy_link.mp4 ( PascalSausage@beehaw.org ) 
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      3 years ago

      This is the first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread.

World News

news

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !news@beehaw.org

Breaking news from around the world.

News that is American but has an international facet may also be posted here.


Guidelines for submissions:
  • Where possible, post the original source of information.
    • If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
  • Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
  • Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
  • Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
  • Social media should be a source of last resort.

These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.


For US News, see the US News community.


This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 1 user / day
  • 213 users / week
  • 447 users / month
  • 1.2K users / 6 months
  • 3.75K local subscribers
  • 25K subscribers
  • 4.66K Posts
  • 22.4K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) 
  • alyaza [they/she] ( alyaza@beehaw.org ) 
  • gyrfalcon ( gyrfalcon@beehaw.org ) 
  • Gaywallet (they/it) ( Gaywallet@beehaw.org ) 
  • LDRMS ( LDRMS@beehaw.org ) 
  • sophs [she/her] ( s0phia@beehaw.org ) 
  • BE: 0.19.15
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code