21% of Americans believe that being transgender is a mental illness

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: YOUGOV POLL

URL: https://today.yougov.com/news/2017/05/17/21-americans-believe-identifying-transgender-menta/

RuPaul’s Drag Race has remained a beacon for LGBTQA+ rights throughout its nine seasons on air. This year, the show included its first openly transgender contestant – the lovely Peppermint – who, upon discussing her gender identity with her fellow Drag Racers, was met with love and support. This heartwarming moment, which aired Friday, comes in the midst of political turbulence in regards to, as well as violence towards, the trans community at large.

Despite attempts made by select celebrities and the media to promote understanding of marginalized individuals, a recent YouGov survey found that 21% of Americans think that identifying as transgender is a form of mental illness, and 39% believe that being transgender is a choice.

Similarly, even though 40% of US adults personally know someone who is transgender, 27% are not open to being friends with anyone who identifies as a transgender man or woman.

Significantly fewer people would consider dating, either casually or seriously, a trans man, woman or non-binary individual – 17%, 16% and 18% respectively. Respondents were even less likely to be open to the idea of engaging in a sexual act of any kind with a trans man or non-binary person (15%), and even fewer would consider intimacy with a transgender woman (13%). In the past twelve months, only 4% of Americans have been on a date with a transgender person

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[rodamala]

In the past twelve months, only 4% of Americans have been on a date with a transgender person

Well, I'm not dumb, but I can't understand...

[Wingnut]

Well, I'm not dumb, but I can't understand...

Nice

I was in the same book but a different page than Lola.
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

[jmyrlefuller]

It appalls me to see so much of the American people falling hook, line and sinker for the alphabet soup lobby's subversive agenda. These sorts of things can be easily proven and disproven but we're supposed to rely on imagined fantasies for the REAL truth, and besides, they're "marginalized" so we can't criticize it anymore. 

[LateForLunch]

Amen. It's constantly amazing to me how people who identify with a political party which takes its name from the principle of majority rule, is so desperately, obsessively concerned with the most microscopically minuscule minorities and culturally tangential minority groups - like LGBTXYZ (less than 1% of the population) or muzz immigrants ( less than 1% of the population). 

Democracy means; rule by the majority. Do they even teach that anymore?  Or does it go something like, "Democracy means never having to make sense when you talk to be still taken seriously."

[geronl]

79% are full of it

[Frank Cannon]

I don't think it is a mental disorder. It is a sexual perversion much like BDSM or dressing up in animal costumes to screw.

[flowers]

If only 4% have been on a date with one, why only 21% think it is a mental illness? I call BS on this. I read what Bruce Jenner has to do every day to keep his new body part. He will have to do that for the rest of his life. It involves a sex toy to keep it open. This people are mentally ill.

[240B]

Of course it is. Obviously. And in subjects concerning anything perverted, never believe any article that has a % sign in it. 99.65% of them are bullshit.


It doesn't end with transgender. There are people out there who believe they are a cat. And they have surgery to make themselves to make themselves resemble a cat. That is a real thing. I guess we are going to call them "transfeline"?


Once reality no longer matters, then anything goes.

[SirLinksALot]

I read what Bruce Jenner has to do every day to keep his new body part.

What new body part? I thought the body part he had was removed ...

[LateForLunch]

I have no quibble with people who want to disfigure themselves. I can't crawl into another person's skin and make their decisions for them. What I deplore is that our society would invest large amounts of time/energy in such concerns while we have other vastly more important and pressing concerns.

[txradioguy]

How can anyone not realize it's a mental illness?

At the same time, frank is right...it's a sexual perversion as well.

[Wingnut]

What new body part? I thought the body part he had was removed ...

The silk purse they made out of his sows ear needs regular applications of linseed oil for conditioning and repeated games of catch for it to stay broken in.  Otherwise it gets hard and cracks then seals tight shut.

[Mom MD]

79% are full of it

Only 21% of Americans are of sound mind? Wow