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I’ve been pointing out for years that one set of male to female transgenders, what I call ex-men (heterosexual men with an autogynephilia fetish as opposed to the effeminate gay drag queen / tranny prostitute varietal), are often right wing-inclined. E.g., Colonel “Jennifer” Pritzker is likely the most rightwing of the famously Democratic Pritzker zillionaires, none of the rest of whom spent many years in the Army National Guard or founded a library of military history. But this pattern doesn’t fit in with anybody’s narrative, so it is ignored.
Here’s finally a study of what the sociologist calls “luminous lavender liberalism” among the LGBT+ crowd, which finds that the stereotype of them as being quite liberal (on a 1 to 5 scale with 5 as the most liberal) is true … except for the “trans woman” (M to F) sample.
I’ve been pointing out for years that one set of male to female transgenders, what I call ex-men (heterosexual men with an autogynephilia fetish as opposed to the effeminate gay drag queen / tranny prostitute varietal), are often right wing-inclined. E.g., Colonel “Jennifer” Pritzker is likely the most rightwing of the famously Democratic Pritzker zillionaires, none of the rest of whom spent many years in the Army National Guard or founded a library of military history. But this pattern doesn’t fit in with anybody’s narrative, so it is ignored.
Here’s finally a study of what the sociologist calls “luminous lavender liberalism” among the LGBT+ crowd, which finds that the stereotype of them as being quite liberal (on a 1 to 5 scale with 5 as the most liberal) is true … except for the “trans woman” (M to F) sample.
Negativity toward LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, genderqueer/non-binary, asexual, and queer) people and rights during Trump’s presidency ushered in a “rainbow wave” of LGBTQ voters. Yet the particulars of LGBTQ political perspectives remain underexplored. 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). Building from Worthen’s (201social justice/empathic concern theoretical framework, liberal perspectives among LGBTQ people were theorized as constructed from personal experiences with stigma and empathic concern for other stigmatized people.
The main exception to “luminous lavender liberalism” in the above graph is the “trans woman” group, who are as middle of the road (3.03) as heterosexuals (male and female together). And note that group no doubt includes some of the (no doubt liberal) effeminate drag queen cohort as well as the more remarkable Outer Space Entrepreneur-type ex-men.
