Oh Really!

I have a few conservative trans friends but almost all are liberal.

Study finds transgender people more politically conservative than straight men
The College Fix
By Brittany Slaughter – Liberty University
July 26, 2019

A couple years ago one of the most famous transgender women in the world, Caitlyn Jenner, shocked many observers when she spoke about voting for Donald Trump and identifying as a Republican. Turns out, that might not have been as far-fetched as it first seemed, even if she has since revoked her support of Trump.

A recently published large-scale study on LGBTQ political identities has produced some surprising results, finding transgender men and women tend to be “significantly less liberal” than cisgender men, straight men, and others in the LGBTQ community.

The study, “A Rainbow Wave? LGBTQ Liberal Political Perspectives During Trump’s Presidency: an Exploration of Sexual, Gender, and Queer Identity Gaps,” surveyed a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults. It was funded by the University of Oklahoma and conducted by Meredith Worthen, a sociology professor in OU’s College of Arts and Sciences.
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The study found that transgender individuals showed a decreased likelihood of supporting laws and policies associated with liberal causes.

Oh really?

What did the U.S. 2015 Transgender Survey of 28,000 trans people find?

Half (50%) of respondents identified as Democrats, 48% identified as Independents, and 2% identified as Republicans, compared to 27%, 43%, and 27% in the U.S. general population, respectively.
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When asked about their political views, more than half (55%) of the sample described themselves as “very liberal,” 27% selected “liberal,” 15% selected “moderate,” 2% selected “conservative,” and only 1% described themselves as “very conservative.”

Hmm… that is different than the author from Liberty University wrote and what University of Oklahoma found in their survey.

Not only are we liberal but we also vote!

The number of USTS respondents who voted represents 70% of those in the sample who were registered to vote in the election. According to the CPS, 42% of citizen voters aged 18 and older voted in the 2014 election, which represents 65% of registered voters. 

The abstract says in part,

The current study examines sexual, gender, and queer identity gaps in liberalism among a nationally representative sample of US adults aged 18+ stratified by US census categories of age, gender, ethnicity, and census region (N = 3104; LGBTQ non-heterosexual: n = 1555) collected from Survey Sampling International (SSI) online panelists in the weeks after the November 2018 polls. Specifically, sexual identity (heterosexual, lesbian/gay, bisexual, pansexual, and asexual), gender identity (cis man, cis woman, trans man, trans woman, and non-binary), and queer identity are explored as they relate to liberal perspectives (liberal ideology; law/policy support of those in poverty, racial/ethnic minorities, immigrants, and women; feminist identity). 

Do you see anything about the number of trans people surveyed? However, it might be somewhere within the body of the survey that is behind the firewall.

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Saturday I went to the GLAD fundraiser, the  36th Annual Summer Party that was held at the Pilgrim Monument. I didn’t meet anyone new from P’town, but I meet many of GLAD officers that I knew, and there were about 800 people in attendance. Some really nice stuff was auctioned off, one was a vacation to California wine country. One painting was auctioned off for several thousand dollars. I didn't want to rub my nose or brush the hair out of my face for fear of bidding several thousand dollars.

But I forgot my phone so I didn't get any photos of the party or pictures of the harbor.