The important information is that the rushing kids to be trans myth is disproven, the trans population is still a small subset of the LGBTQ+ group. The right uses emotion to drive fear because the data simply debunks and destroys their positions. Hugs
New census data for England and Wales should put a stop to the “anti-trans moral panic”. (PinkNews/Getty)
New census data revealing the size of the trans population should be used to combat anti-trans rhetoric and to secure vital resources for the community, experts have said.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released first-of-its-kind census data on sexual orientation and gender identity in England and Wales on Friday (6 January).
Around 1.5 million people (3.2 per cent) identified themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual or as another sexual orientation, while 262,000 (0.5 per cent) said their gender identity was not the same as the sex they were assigned at birth.
The figures also found an equal number of trans men and trans women in England and Wales (48,000 in each group), while 30,000 identified themselves as non-binary.
An additional 18,000 wrote a different gender identity.
Stonewall CEO Nancy Kelley called the data “significant” and said the small size of the trans population should put to bed “fake narratives”.
“It’s such a small population – the negative obsession we’ve got with it nationally, it’s just not justified on the basis of these numbers,” Kelley said.
“Politicians and particularly the media have been part of creating this environment which is so hostile for trans people and frankly so dangerous for trans people. This data should be a moment for everybody to step back from that and calm down.
“This is an important but small population and there is no evidence here that justifies this obsessive negative focus in our national conversation. We should get on with supporting trans people to thrive in their day to day lives.”
A woman stands under an elaborate, rainbow gay pride banner with the text “We will not live in fear”. (EuropaNewswire/Gado/Getty)
She added that the census data proves anti-trans “social contagion” rhetoric is wrong.
Some anti-trans figures have claimed an increase in people who’ve come out as trans is down to a “contagion”, rather than because society is more accepting and understanding of trans identities.
“It’s really significant data. It’s important in terms of the moral panic we find ourselves in and should act as a bit of a corrective about that,” Kelley said.
0.5 per cent isn’t a huge number until you think that that’s one in every couple of hundred people in every village, every town.
Cleo Madeleine, Gendered Intelligence
Cleo Madeleine, communications officer at trans charity Gendered Intelligence, said the fact that the data has been collected in the first place proves once and for all that trans people are “part of the social fabric in England and Wales”.
“It is undeniable now by any stretch that trans people exist and that we need resources,” she told PinkNews.
“0.5 per cent isn’t a huge number until you think that that’s one in every couple of hundred people in every village, every town. If you look at some places in London – places like Norwich, Leicester, Brighton – that’s going up to 1 in 100.
“We’re really talking about quite a substantial chunk of the population when it comes to things like allocation of resources, community spaces, support services, and I really hope – I know it’s not that optimistic with the political situation – but I certainly hope that this recognition is the start of better formal recognition of the need for service for support for trans people.”
The protest proceeds down Piccadilly as thousands attend the third Trans Pride march on June 26, 2021. (Guy Smallman/Getty)
The statistics also show the need for legal recognition for non-binary gender identities, Madeleine said. As well as the 30,000 people who said they are non-binary, 118,000 said their gender was not the same as their sex registered at birth, but didn’t give any specifics.
“To see that there’s potentially tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of non-binary people in the UK is an undeniable case for proper legal recognition,” Madeleine said.
While many are celebrating the release of the data, Madeleine also points out that many trans and non-binary people will be anxious about how the government and local authorities will use it.
“There’s such a climate at the moment of something like toxic visibility where trans people are talked about constantly, and that constant visibility is used to the detriment of trans people.
“I think there’s a lot of worry that these statistics might be used for something similar, but of course only time will tell on that.”
Likely even more LGBTQ+ people than census suggests
Census data on sexual orientation is also groundbreaking, activists have said.
The question on sexual orientation was optional, but well over 90 per cent of people opted to answer it.
As far as Kelley sees it, the actual number of LGBTQ+ people in England and Wales is likely even higher than the official figure because not everybody will have felt comfortable answering questions on their identity.
“It is absolutely fair to assume that some of the people who chose not to answer the question are people who are not straight,” she says.
Rainbow flag at the Pride London gay and lesbian parade through central London. (Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty)
“In fact it’s probably reasonable to assume that you’re more likely to not answer that question if you’re lesbian, gay, bi, queer in some way than if you’re straight. So it’s right that some of those ‘prefer not to answers’ will also be lesbian, gay, bi, pan, queer people.”
We want a government that genuinely governs with compassion and with the needs and the experiences of all of its citizens at its heart.
Nancy Kelley, Stonewall
Having said that, the figures are “pretty much in line” with what Stonewall had expected them to be.
While there’s still some division and debate about the ways the ONS went about collecting the data, the census figures prove once and for all that queer people are part of communities all across England and Wales. That should be celebrated, Kelley says.
“We’ve been counted because we matter,” Kelley says.
Funny and informative without being overly science heavy. I doubt I will post more today, I had planned to do comments but spent most of the day in bed where my back feels the best. That new bed is really good on my back. I don’t intend to post much news until I can get to the old comments but right now videos are the most I can really deal with. I will soon go back to bed and finish watching “The Fifth Element”. Randy has suggested a bed setup for me to work from but the best position for me to slow down the pain is lying flat on one of my sides. I will get the epidural after the MRI and if that doesn’t fix the pain issues then I will switch to fentanyl. Hugs
I don’t care if you watch it, but I want to make a point about the resurgence of bathroom bills. You know those bills that say trans people must use the bathroom of their assigned sex at birth. Mostly because cis women have been told that trans women or women who do not look feminine enough will violate and hurt them. Yes we must judge everyone by their looks so we can tell who fits the girl enough or the boy enough categories. We already know that the idea that a person will go to the effort to claim to be trans to assault women in a bathroom is debunked and stupid. If a guy wants to assault women they are not going to change their entire life to do it in a woman’s bathroom, they will just charge into one and do it, or do it when the woman comes out or a dozen other ways. It simply is not reasonable. But let’s go back to comfort. A cis female person I respect said she would be uncomfortable in a bathroom with a “manly looking woman”. OK please look at this person in the video that says they are trans. That means if these “go to the toilet of your assigned birth” laws are enforced this person would be forced by law to use a female’s bathroom no matter how uncomfortable for them or the women. This is the stupidity of these laws and the people pushing the bigotry. Look at this guy, what bathroom does he belong in? These bathroom laws are based in bigotry and made up fears. What are you people doing in the bathroom, holding a social gathering? We have to understand what is driving these bathroom bill laws is an attempt to stop societal change and progression by the groups that are scared of the new ways. The die hard religious groups, the traditionalist who say it was not done this way when I was growing up, and the people that just simply feel the need to control society to make sure it stays the same so they feel comfortable. Hugs
This passionate talk from Dr. James O’Keefe MD gives us a deeply personal and fascinating insight into why homosexuality is indeed a necessary and extraordinarily useful cog in nature’s wheel of perfection.
James H O’Keefe MD, is a Board Certified Cardiologist and Director of both the Charles & Barbara Duboc Cardio Health & Wellness Center and the Preventive Cardiology service at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute. He is also Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His postgraduate training included a cardiology fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr O’Keefe is board-certified in Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Nuclear Cardiology, and Cardiac CT Imaging. He is consistently ranked among the ‘Top Doctor’ lists regionally and nationally as one of America’s Top Rated Physicians in Cardiology. He has been named as one of USA Today’s Most Influential Doctors. Dr O’Keefe has contributed more than 300 articles to the medical literature and has authored best-selling cardiovascular books for health professionals including: The Complete Guide to ECGs (which is used for Cardiology Board Certification), Dyslipidemia Essentials, and Diabetes Essential.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
A cisgender female cancer survivor who had her breasts removed said that public restroom users regularly challenge her gender, making her nervous about such confrontations.
Tiffany Liles-Taylor — a 43-year-old lesbian woman from the English town of Enderby, Leicestershire, about 96 miles north of London — was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a double mastectomy in 2020.
“I’ve had to carry around these really heavy things my whole life,” she told ITV. “I was in my forties and they were starting to get droopy anyway – so I thought ‘these can go’.”
After a long recovery, she returned to work as a ward clerk in a local hospital in spring 2021. However, the short-haired woman now finds that she’s regularly misgendered.
She said that she gets called “Timothy” more than “Tiffany” and has high social anxiety because she has short hair and is quite masculine, causing others to assume that she’s a guy when they see her together with her wife.
“Public toilets are very stressful because people will always challenge me whenever I go in,” she said. “They will ask me if I’m in the right toilet, or get members of staff to question why I’m there— to which I have to constantly explain that I had cancer, not a sex change.”
“It’s that confrontation that I hate. I want people to understand that I am a woman, and I am in the right place,” she added.
When she wears clothing or wigs that are commonly seen as more feminine, she says she still gets mistreated because the clothes make her feel inauthentic and uncomfortable.
England has laws allowing public accommodation access for LGBTQ+ people and forbidding discrimination against queers. But even such legal protections can’t stop misgendering and harassment from ignorant individuals.
Liles-Taylor isn’t the only cis female who has been harassed in a public restroom for her gender presentation.
In November, a young cis woman with short hair recorded another woman harassing her in the public restroom of the Rampart Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada because the woman assumed she was transgender.
In the U.S., right-wingers have created a panic about trans individuals using public bathrooms, claiming that trans people are sexual predators and that public accommodation laws allow them to sexually harm women and children. In reality, the vast majority of sexual assaults are committed by cisgender men and women.
For those who had any doubts that this was not really the people rising up but actually a well funded well organized by right wing billionaires’ effort to stop society from progressing further from the bible views of how to live. This article points out how these groups get started and funded. It points out the ones driving these issues are the religious ones founded by Christian fundamentalist billionaires with the goal of creating a repressive society that will conform to a hierarchical theocracy with them at the top being the rulers. It is not so much about god as it is power to rule over others as god’s messengers. The interview is not long but really informative. Hugs
Imara Jones accepting the NABJ-NAHJ Journalist of Distinction AwardPhoto: Screenshot
Imara Jones is an award-winning journalist, thought leader, and content creator whose work focuses on trans people and the intersection of religious fundamentalism, the LGBTQ+ community, and civil rights. The sequel to her award-winning podcast The Anti-Trans Hate Machinedrops in March.
Jones shared some time on a chilly afternoon in Brooklyn to describe the state of the far right’s campaign targeting trans kids, drag queens, and “groomers,” from a billionaire Christian cabal spreading nationalist gospel and unlimited cash to a new and made-to-order frontline hate group called Gays Against Groomers.
LGBTQ Nation:I imagine for your work it’s got to be a full-time job just keeping up with all the connections between attacks and protests and media fueling them, and the money fueling the organizations. Do you have a giant bulletin board in your office, like a detective, with pictures and pushpins and strings connecting everything?
IJ:Yes, we have. Generally, we create what we call sitemaps. And we kind of look for who’s where, and who are they connected to, and how they link back. And at a certain point it, you know, you don’t even have to do that as much anymore because you hear a name, or you see an organization, and you go, “Oh yeah, there are links to X.” In the right-wing space that fuels a lot of his hate, you see the usual suspects and don’t have to look that hard.
LGBTQ Nation:There’s been a recent focus on drag shows and story time hours by frontline groups and media outlets like Libs of TikTok and Project Veritas. Is that a shift away from casting young people as villains, like the ones playing girls’ sports and 10-year-olds testifying in state legislatures, and moving to adults as villains or what they’re calling groomers? Is that an easier sell for hate groups and far-right media than attacks on kids and parents?
IJ:I don’t see it as an either/or. I see it as an expansion of the battlespace rather than a conversion of it from one thing to the other. We have to understand from the perspective of the right that these distinctions about gender and gender identity, it’s like blurred into one thing. Drag is very threatening because it has wide acceptance. It’s about bending gender, right? And about the part of gender that’s an illusion. And so for them that fits very much in the space of trans people.
And when I look at conservative media, they haven’t let up at all on trans people and trans kids. You know, we have anti-trans bills that were passed this year in Georgia and in Florida, and as a centerpiece of the campaigns of [Republican Gov. of Texas] Greg Abbott and [Republican Gov. of Florida] Ron DeSantis, and on and on and on. There was a huge emphasis in Uvalde in an online campaign that moved to conservative media that then moved to a member of Congress to say that the shooter was trans. So, I don’t think that it’s a flip. It’s looking new to us because it’s greatly expanded, but it’s actually not.
LGBTQ Nation: Tell us about the Betsy DeVos/Prince clan, and why we don’t hear about their influence.
IJ:Can I take those questions in reverse? I would say why don’t we hear about it, one, because they’re powerful people and people are afraid of powerful people, including newspapers, and we know that. Secondly, I think it’s because they have a degree of mainstream credibility because she was a secretary of education, even in the midst of a controversial administration. And one of the reasons why they’re so effective is because their extremism is cloaked behind this air of comity and rectitude. There’s a certain way in which she composes herself, which I think doesn’t scream extremist.
LGBTQ Nation:And how about the DeVos/Prince clan itself?
IJ:When we say the DeVos family, we’re talking about the fusion of two billionaire families into one. Betsy DeVos was born Betsy Prince into the really wealthy Prince family. And then she married Richard DeVos. It’s actually a giant clan, a billionaire clan. And there is not a far-right organization, and in many cases designated hate groups, who exist without the largess of that family. Betsy DeVos, or Betsy Prince and her husband, Richard DeVos are the second generation in this billionaire kind of clan.
Richard DeVos’ father, for example, was extremely important to the founding of the Heritage Foundation. The Prince family, which is Betsy DeVos, helped to fund the headquarters of the Family Research Council, which is designated by the SPLC [Southern Poverty Law Center] as a hate group. And they’ve been involved in so many far-right organizations throughout the decades. And so what you have here in this second generation is kind of a sophistication of their operation and particularly in Betsy Prince, this kind of fusion of strategy, of money and a whole host of other things.
LGBTQ Nation:How does that manifest itself?
IJ: So this family is kind of the royal family of the Christian nationalist movement. And they set the example for how to move money throughout the right wing for all of the other really wealthy families. They participated in an annual gathering of Christian nationalist billionaires called The Gathering, in which Betsy DeVos is on tape coaching them in terms of how, as a wealthy person in this far-right movement, you move money to other things, and encouraging them to do so. There is religious extremism in their views, which is what’s driving a lot of this.
As well, all of the Trump administration’s anti-trans policies came out of the DeVos Center for Family and Religion that’s housed in the Heritage Foundation. People were moved from that center into the Trump administration where they began to disseminate these policies. I think that we have to keep in mind that Betsy DeVos is just the most visible person of this large, far-right billionaire clan that has been active for over 40 years.
LGBTQ Nation:How did DeVos end up as education secretary in the Trump Administration?
IJ:They didn’t know who to appoint to anything because their win was a surprise, right? So they were like, “What in the world are we going to do?” So they turned to Erik Prince. It’s gonna sound familiar, younger brother of Betsy. And he’s like, okay, we’ll get you linked up with the right people. And one, he clued them into his sister and, two, they went to the Heritage Foundation, and the Heritage Foundation said, “Boy, you know, this is actually what we’ve wanted to do for a really long time.”
And so it flows that the Heritage Foundation would recommend Betsy DeVos because their family is a longtime founder at that center and they know that she’s been really active in education and educational circles. And then they basically started to populate the entire administration with people recommended by a combination of the Heritage Foundation and Erik Prince and that’s literally how she got in the mix.
LGBTQ Nation:The DeVos family are adherents of Dominionism. What is that?
In Ecclesiastes, there is the charge to basically create theocracies that are based on kind of a real religious caste system. And so how do you do that? The way you do that is something called Dominionism. And that is to say that you seize the seven mountains of society, you gain control of those things. And once you have control of them, you can then move society towards this theocratic vision. And so what are some of the seven mountains? They’re business and finance, they’re education, they’re the media, arts, etc. So the charge for Betsy DeVos at this epic gathering in the early 2000s was to charge really wealthy people and billionaires to pick their mountain, and then focus on it. As people who have been told over and over and over that their wealth flows from the fact that they are chosen and special, you can see how they gravitate towards something like Dominionism, and they have. Their whole family has.
LGBTQ Nation: I’d like to zero in on one particular group as an example of one at the bottom of this organizational hierarchy. What can you tell us about Gays Against Groomers? It appeared out of nowhere about six months ago, fully formed and led by a woman named Jaimee Michell. Do you think it’s organic?
IJ:There’s very little on the right that’s organic. It’s really funny, because I have to explain this a lot to mainstream and even the liberal funders, where, you know, on the left, a lot of things are organic, and people just form them and then they get funded. A lot of times, what happens on the right is, they’ll say, “Who’s gonna start an organization that will do X?” And then someone raises their hand.
This is one of the things we’re going to document next year on the podcast, but one of the things that they do on the right is that they go out and they shop for people from the communities that they’re targeting who are willing to essentially carry the message that they want them to carry if they give them a large enough check. And so they will go out and they’ll look for a Jaimee Michell — this is not uncommon — they’ll be actively looking for these people online or elsewhere. And once they find them, they will either engage them or platform them or say, “Can we introduce you to other people?” and that’s literally how it gets started.
A lot of the TERFs that you see platformed, and TERF organizations, it’s all because the Heritage Foundation went and found them and put them on a panel, and after that, all those people began to be kind of off to the races in terms of their public voice and platforming and a whole host of other things.
LGBTQ Nation:It says very prominently on the Gays Against Groomers website that they’re “a 100% independent, self-funded nonprofit organization.”
IJ: They’re not an official 501(c)(3). I think they claim that. I don’t think there are any 990’s on them. So, to self-assert that you’re self-funded, without in any way showing that you’re self-funded, and the fact that they have so many people — I can look at it right now and say they have a budget of close to a million dollars? Or over a million dollars? So where did that come from? There’s not a million dollars-worth of Gays Against Groomers money in the gay community, right? It’s not an organic conversation. Whereas like, okay, Gays Against Guns. Can they go out and do a GoFundMe campaign amongst people, raise money? Yeah. There’s support for that. But no, there’s nothing organic about this. It reads to me like a slick version of the ex-gay organizations that were funded and founded by Focus on the Family in the 1980’s.
LGBTQ Nation:What’s in store for Season 2 of Anti-Trans Hate Machine?
IJ: We are focusing on the way that the right has manufactured a cultural and media debate about the validity and worthiness of trans people and trans kids, and then has gone on to weaponize that to justify both political and actual violence.
LGBTQ Nation:What do you mean by weaponize, exactly?
IJ:So, you create a conversation. It’s like what happened in the 1930s — and there’s nothing analogous to the Holocaust — but there is an analogy to how you got there as a society. And one of the things that happened in the 1930s is that they just started a conversation about the bad people that needed to be separated from Germany. And that conversation was actually started by the Nazis. Once that conversation had reached a certain level, they use it as justification — they weaponized it — to then begin this campaign of physical separation and then targeting. You create the conversation, and then you recognize the conversation that you created, in order to take the action that you really want to take.
This is what the right wing religious bigots are desperate to stop. As more people become comfortable with same sex marriages and as more same sex couples get married with none of the horrible things happening that the rabid religious claimed such as no straight couples getting married. They are too late with same sex marriage except in a few rabid red area. That is why they are desperate to attack trans kids / drag queens and get the growing acceptance of them stopped before that is too late for them to stop also. Keep the kids from understanding that their peers who are gay and trans are just kids like them then they grow up possible bigots who have to learn acceptance as adults when it is much harder. They attack drag queens because they have become so popular that it worries the fundamentalist religious horribly. They are desperate to stop the advances in society that is leaving their regressive way of living behind. Think of it this way, just as the Amish / Mennonites couldn’t handle the changes in society and prefer to live in the 1800s, so the Christian fundamentalist cannot handle the modern society and want to live in the 1900s. The problem is the Christian fundamentalist are attempting to force the rest of us to live as they demand also. If they would just go live in their own regressive lives no one would care. but they are demanding to rule over the rest of us who don’t agree with them. Hugs
And the number of same-sex households has increased by 122 percent since 2008.
Over 1.2 million same-sex couple households exist within the United States, according to recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The data also showed that there are more married same-sex couples living in the U.S. than ever before, which makes sense considering that marriage equality was only legalized nationwide in 2015.
The data comes from the American Community Survey (ACS), an annual survey sent to nearly 3.5 million households across the nation. The ACS collects demographic information to provide a comprehensive, ongoing view of the U.S. public.
ACS data shows that the number of same-sex households in the U.S. has steadily increased from approximately 540,000 in 2008 to 980,000 in 2019, and then to 1.2 million in 2021 – a more than 122 percent increase from 2008 to 2021.
From 2008 to 2015, ACS data showed that the number of households with unmarried same-sex couples in the U.S. was consistently higher than the number of households with married same-sex couples. This is hardly surprising considering that only 16 states had legalized same-sex marriage before 2014.
However, every year since 2016, the ACS has reported the number of households with married same-sex couples has surpassed the number of households with unmarried same-sex couples.
In 2021, the ACS counted around 500,000 households of unmarried same-sex couples. Interestingly, this is about the same number as was counted by the ACS in 2013. Also in 2021, the ACS counted over 700,000 households with married same-sex couples in the U.S. — an all-time high.
ACS data also showed that 31.6 percent of same-sex married couples were interracial, compared to just 18.4 percent of married couples, according to The Washington Blade.
While 29.6 percent of unmarried same-sex couples both had bachelor’s degrees, only 18.1 percent of unmarried opposite-sex couples held the same degrees.
The data also showed that while the average age of same-sex married couples was 48.9 years, the average age of opposite-sex married couples was 52.8 years. Comparatively, the average age of same-sex unmarried couples was 42 years while the average age of opposite-sex unmarried couples was 39.9 years.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when that company with an unfathomable amount of access to everyone’s personal data yassifies the numbers into a cute end-of-year roundup complete with charts and graphics. No, not Spotify Wrapped — we’re talking about the Pornhub Year in Review. And this year, it’s been reported that trans porn exploded in popularity, even as trans sex workers are increasingly losing access to the tools they need to survive and transphobia as a whole is increasing nationwide.
In 2022, porn under the “transgender” category increased in popularity by 75% to become the 7th most popular category worldwide and the 3rd most popular in the U.S., according to the tube site’s report. In addition, “FTM” searches were eight times more popular than “MTF” searches. And men viewed videos tagged as “trans” 22% more than women. However, women on “straight” Pornhub viewed the “trans male” sub-category 115% more than men, lest we think that being a chaser is only limited to one gender or sexuality. Pornhub even noted that the most searched-for gender identities were “non binary,” “gender x” (whatever that means) and “androgynous.”
Interestingly, Pornhub appears to aggregate its data for PornhubGay totally separately, and not by gender. Over on PornhubGay, searches for “FTM” grew 202%, becoming the 20th of the top 20 gay searches, whereas it didn’t rank last year.
Trans porn’s popularity appears to be in keeping with the general trends of the past few years. Last year, searches for “trans” grew 141%, with views of the trans category growing by 23%. In 2017, Pornhub also published a report specifically on the popularity of trans porn; for the most part, and for better or worse, it found that the popularity of trans porn has been steadily increasing since the mid-2010s.
This particular bump in the popularity of trans porn, in addition to last year’s growth, is of course happening at the same time that lawmakers have introduced the highest number of anti-trans and general anti-LGBTQ+ bills in history. That these two occurrences are simultaneous is probably no coincidence. Last year, an Alabama republican lawmaker who voted to criminalize doctors who provide minors with transition-related healthcare was caught liking trans porn on Twitter. And a study from Lawsuit.org additionally found that Google users in Republican states are overwhelmingly responsible for the popularity of certain trans-related porn search terms, like “shemale” and “tranny.”
But this data also likely comes as a slap in the face to trans sex workers, who are facing an increasingly precarious future. In August, Visa and Mastercard announced that it would be suspending payment processing for the ad-buying arm of Mindgeek, the parent company that owns Pornhub, making it much harder for Mindgeek sites to generate revenue and in turn cutting off a revenue stream for the sexworkers who use it. That followed Mastercard’s 2021 rule changes, which stated that the payment processing company could suspend users at any time for selling content that violates its vague rules. That rule change led to OnlyFans’ controversial decision to ban adult content, although that decision was later reversed.
These legal charges against Pornhub have largely been led by the Traffickinghub campaign, which was founded in partnership with the Evangelical Christian group Exodus Cry. And although the goal of protecting children from trafficking and grooming seems to be an admirable one, the vast majority of child exploitation actually happens on Facebook, with a Daily Beast sreport finding that the site recorded 20.3 million reported incidents related to child pornography or trafficking in 2020. By comparison, MindGeek reported 13,229. As the rhetoric of the current anti-trans movement shows, “protecting children” is usually just a smokescreen for something far more unsavory.
Since trans people are far more likely than cis people to rely on sex work for income, these issues disproportionately affect trans workers. And while you could make some pithy jokes about America’s Freudian obsession with trans people, the reality is that trans sex workers remain some of the most vulnerable in our community.
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