Every so often, LGBTQ headlines pop up with some new hair-on-fire survey that always manages to prove exactly what LGBTQ activists believe to be true. These numbers are then spread throughout the rest of the media, used in political arguments and cited by Democrats to further leftwing social agendas.
Welp, another new survey has been released and, on the surface, appears to prove that Republican anti-LGBTQ bills, rhetoric and hateful, bigoted actions are causing serious mental health issues for LGBTQ Americans.
Check it out.
And the new laws haven’t been good for people’s mental health, either.
— LGBTQ Nation (@lgbtqnation) March 29, 2024
#LGBTQ
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The source of this shocking news?
Data for Progress, naturally.
NEW REPORT: LGBTQ+ adults report that anti-LGBTQ+ policies and rhetoric are having negative impacts on their lives, with 70% of LGBTQ+ adults and 80% of trans adults in agreement that "LGBTQ+ Americans are facing a national state of emergency.”https://t.co/UDZeJfYXPd
— Data for Progress (@DataProgress) March 28, 2024
More than a third of LGBTQ+ adults (37%), including nearly two-thirds of transgender adults (65%), say quality of life has gotten worse for LGBTQ+ Americans in the past year.https://t.co/UDZeJfYXPd pic.twitter.com/oZTl5OCXej
— Data for Progress (@DataProgress) March 28, 2024
A majority of LGBTQ+ adults (53%) — including 79% of transgender adults and 65% of LGBTQ+ adults ages 18 to 24 — say that recent anti-LGBTQ+ policies and rhetoric have negatively impacted their mental health.https://t.co/UDZeJfYXPd pic.twitter.com/fryamS2ceU
— Data for Progress (@DataProgress) March 28, 2024
Advocate, and LGBTQ magazine, reports, 'In 2023, more than 550 anti-LGBTQ+ bills were introduced in state legislatures across the U.S., and more than 80 became law, by the Human Rights Campaign’s count. The number of bills introduced this year is approaching 500.'
Sounds truly apocalyptic what those awful conservatives are doing to this vulnerable and marginalized population!
Well, not so fast.
The survey, conducted online between March 8th, and March 14th, 2024, surveyed 873 self-identifying LGBTQ people, with 87 of them identifying as transgender. The survey used some undisclosed weighted system to account for various social factors like race and education and to account for transgender respondents. Again, how the numbers we weighted is not reported.
Whereas straight (pun intended) percentages or averages give all responses for a question equal weight, weighted analysis provides certain values based on perceived importance. So, if you were surveying who likes apples or oranges, but decided, somehow, that apples were more important, each apple response would be multiplied by a given number.
Totally makes sense.
Another method used is adding up similar responses and representing them as a singular conclusion. For example, the survey breaks down answers into various forms of, 'very strongly agree, strongly agree, somewhat agree,' but anyone who answers within that group answers in the affirmative.
Meanwhile, 'stayed the same,' or 'no impact,' are just ignored in the results.
So, for example, Advocate reports, 'Among all LGBTQ+ respondents, 47 percent were concerned about discrimination or harassment resulting from public displays of affection.' The breakdown however is:
- Very concerned: 20%
- Somewhat concerned: 27%
- Only a little concerned: 21%
- Not at all concerned: 32%
This comes out to:
- Concerned total: 47%
- Not Concerned total: 53%
So ... what they're telling us is a majority of LGBTQ are not concerned about being targeted over public displays of affection.
Using this system we can confirm from the results:
- 54% agree life has gotten better or stayed about the same for LGBTQ in the past year.
- 75% agree being openly LGBTQ is easier or about the same compared to the past.
- 35% reported 'anti-LGBTQ policies and rhetoric,' has no impact on them (21% said very negative impact).
- 65% said they weren't interested in moving out of states with 'anti-LGBTQ legislation.'
- 70% agreed accessing normal healthcare was easy.
So, basically LGBTQ are doing just fine.
For transgender people specifically the numbers are even more dramatic.
Of the 87 participants, 61% claimed to have heard anti-transgender remarks from people around them, but:
- 72% had no trouble with existing medical care.
- 77% felt perfectly safe going to the doctor and didn't fear discrimination of mistreatment.
- 78% were able to update legal documents with no problems.
- 78% had typical wait times to receive gender-related treatments.
- 83% didn't need to find a new doctor or move in order to obtain gender-related treatment.
So medical care and legal issues seem fine.
- 75% hadn't experienced any cyberbullying or harassment online.
- 77% hadn't experienced discrimination.
- 81% hadn't experienced any anti-LGBTQ bullying in person.
- 96% hadn't experience any anti-LGBTQ physical violence.
As for daily living?
- 65% had no concerns about dressing the way they wanted in public.
- 66% had no concerns about using a public restroom.
So trans people seem to be doing much better than expected overall.
However, and this is an amazing statement from the survey.
'After being informed that the Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the United States for the first time in September 2023, citing "an unprecedented and dangerous spike in anti-LGBTQ+ legislative assaults sweeping state houses this year,” 70% of LGBTQ+ adults, including 85% of transgender adults, agree that LGBTQ+ Americans are facing a national state of emergency.'
After being told they were facing a state of emergency, they AGREED, despite reporting everything else was basically just fine.
So, the reported harm to their mental health seems to be either entirely imagined or imposed onto them by LGBTQ activists insisting they are in constant, immediate danger from hateful, bigoted Nazis ready to send them off to the camps.
The survey insists,
'This report highlights many of the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ adults across the country, especially as a result of recent anti-LGBTQ+ policies and rhetoric,” Data for Progress concludes. “It also underscores the disparities in reported negative experiences between transgender adults and LGBQ+ adults who do not identify as transgender. Furthermore, this report emphasizes the importance of LGBTQ+-affirming communities, policies, representation in media, and online spaces and resources for LGBTQ+ people.'
No, actually, it seems LGBTQ are doing just fine until you tell them otherwise.
Of course, with hysteria headlines declaring LGBTQ are living in abject terror in the United States, it seems to be a self-fulfilling cycle. Emotionally at least. They certainly feel oppressed, but can't seem to pinpoint how, exactly, when asked for the details.
