Well Yes… It Make Sense

We only make up about 0.5% of the general population and if you look at the total LGBTQ+ population researchers are not even sure of the total of the number of LGBTQ+ people.

So when an article like this comes out you need to keep our trans population in mind.

Transgender Facebook content dominated by right-wing sources, study finds

Over the course of a year, anti-trans Facebook posts earned more engagement than positive and neutral trans content combined, Media Matters for America found.

NBC News

By Tim Fitzsimons

July 20, 2020

Anti-transgender Facebook content shared by right-wing news sources generated more engagement than content from pro-transgender or neutral sources combined, according to a Media Matters for America study of 225 viral social media posts.

That means the majority of Facebook interactions with those viral posts — over 43 million of 66 million shares, comments and reactions over the span of a year — were on items posted by anti-trans websites like LifeSiteNews, Daily Wire and Daily Caller, according to the report.

"Facebook users are getting a totally biased and factually inaccurate understanding of the multitude of issues that impact trans people," said Brennan Suen, Media Matters' LGBTQ program director and one of the study's authors. Suen pointed to an October Pew poll showing that a majority of Americans get news from Facebook.

In total, seven of the top 10 sources for interactions on popular transgender Facebook content were anti-trans sites. Just three LGBTQ-oriented sources appeared in the top 10: PinkNews, Gay Star News and NBC Out.

Keep in mind that slightly lass than half of the population of the U.S. are conservatives and that only around 4.5 percent* are LGBTQ+ you can easily see why there is a big disparity.

We can throw up our hands and say “Oh well” and walk away or…

We can work to keep us in the news.

Right now trans athletes are in the news and one of the big things that we have to do is counter the right-wing conservative lies and innuendo. What can you do? For one thing write letters to the editors. Organizations can hold press conferences, send out press releases, and other things to keep us in the news (good things I hope).

*It is very hard to get an accurate count on a marginalized population. There is stigma involved, who wants to stand up and be counted. There is fear, fear of being deported, fear of being discriminated, and worst being attacked. Then there is the fact that many people don’t want us counted, the question about us was dropped off of the 2020 Census by the Trump administration. So to get an actuate count is very hard.

Current estimates are that we are about 4.5% of the population.