Cis men are driving Britain's anti-trans hostility – the data proves it
www.thepinknews.com
Data journalist Ell Folan explains how the numbers show it's cis men, not women, fuelling anti-trans sentiment.
  • spaduf ( spaduf@slrpnk.net ) OP
    4·
    3 years ago

    The numbers are generally evenly split positive-to-negative

    For men they are (43% vs 44%). For women a majority (54% vs 31%) believed transphobia was a problem in British society.

    treat men and women as monoliths

    This is an article discussing demographic based polling data.

    I’ll be honest I’m not the biggest fan of most headlines period. In this case, what they’re trying to convey here is that it is not women (as terf rhetoric would imply) who are driving transphobia in the country.

    • Risk ( Risk@feddit.uk ) 
      1·
      3 years ago

      In this case, what they’re trying to convey here is that it is not women (as terf rhetoric would imply) who are driving transphobia in the country.

      One cannot draw that conclusion from this data. There are still >30% of negative female respondents.

      I’m not saying terf rhetoric is correct, just that this data is unrelated.

      • spaduf ( spaduf@slrpnk.net ) OP
        2·
        3 years ago

        One cannot draw that conclusion from this data. There are still >30% of negative female respondents.

        A 23 point gap with a majority is a completely different ball game than a 1 point gap. The data is absolutely strong enough to draw those conclusions.