What makes Iceland so much higher than everyone else?
PickIeMe on
Beautiful example of “scientific study prooves that scientific studies conclusions depend on who orders it”
Viablemorgan on
What rights vary from state to state? I imagine the greatest influence on a state’s score is public attitudes
KaJaHa on
55 seems… oddly high, with the laws certain red states are passing specifically to punish trans people
robotzor on
Seems like a reductionist view. LGBTQ+ being lumped as one group with completely aligned goals doesn’t get to the heart of the issue and isn’t great data. If the data sampled those for/against gay rights and split that out from other hot button issues, like competing in sports, gender ops in children, and otherwise took LGBTQ+ letter by letter, the field would likely not look nearly as dire.
VampireInBlack on
What year was the data from? Utah has taken some huge steps backwards. Even the protections they had before always had exemptions for religious institutions, which hold huge amounts of housing and are among the largest employers
Sea_Attempt_9531 on
mississippi comparable to japan? here i come!
WLW_Girly on
Iowa is NOT a good state. It is as bad as Florida which is a no-travel zone for trans people. Trans Iowans are losing healthcare and our civil rights protections. Both laws signed and the latter starts the first next month.
SmarterThanCornPop on
Pretty sure the only real differences here are on the T part. Gay rights are ubiquitous.
Bandthemen on
as a trans person, public acceptance depends alot more on if you are in a rural or urban area than the state, ive lived in florida and PA and Orlando Florida was alot more accepting socially than rural PA
-Nyuu- on
I’m always impressed by Utah in charts like this. If the Mormons manage to be nice, why do all the crazies in the Midwest Bible Belt have to be assholes?
StobbstheTiger on
I get how the LG and T are relevant for the rights argument, but what differences in rights, laws and freedoms are there for the BQ+?
wendewende on
Rights and public attitude bundled as a single score?
I’m sorry but that’s a terrible measurement
Izawwlgood on
Ooo, ooo, now overlay “education ranking” and “percentage of population subsisting on welfare”!
d00derman on
In the end, every map is a Civil War map.
flexbuffchest90 on
The south carolina sandwich with NC and Georgia bread on these types of maps
Makes me hungry
Wanderingghost12 on
It seems that Mississippi is continuously at the bottom (or the very top in some cases…) so I think we can just cut that state off. Boost our averages
AxDeath on
Every data point I see, says the South is doing really poorly, and it makes me wonder if you can ever truly win or end a civil war. They seem insistent on never recovering and remaining salty forever.
marigolds6 on
Looking at the details of the scoring, it seems overly indexed on gender identity.
A country (or state) that declares all homosexual activity to be punishable by death gets a smaller penalty (-100) as a country or state that does not recognize a right to change your gender including non-binary genders (-130 total across five categories). Obviously these things nest, so that a country that gets -100 for making all homosexual activity punishable by death almost certainly does not recognize gender identity and so will get a -230 anyway, but it means that the differences at the margins are magnified.
The differences in rights between a 30 and 55 are likely much larger than the difference in rights between a 55 and 100.
Bag_of_Meat13 on
The overlap of a lot of confederate states speaks to something…..
DietDrBleach on
Not surprising, the lowest state is fucking Mississippi.
Frank_the_Mighty on
The spirit of Massachusetts is the spirit of America,
The spirit of what’s old and what’s new,
The spirit of Massachusetts is the spirit of America,
The spirit of the red white and blue
jshauns on
This map is just a vibe check from subjective sources.
What does 100 look like, what does 0 look like? What is societal equality a measure of? Two people in the same state can have wildly different experiences based on immeasurable circumstances.
Equality is an ideal, not a statistic.
RagefireHype on
The east coast should just move to the west coast so we can all be homies
But west coast best coast come on over if you don’t want to be around terrible people as frequently.
TaunWeasel on
West coast best coast, as always
WhiskyEchoTango on
Positively surprised at the positions of Utah and Montana. Not surprised by any CSA state except VA, but I’m sure that’s owing to the proximity to DC.
OhGeebers on
The inclusion of the T confuses me. Let me love who I love is such a different ask than I am something that I’m not.
Illiander on
Maps of the USA that are just civil war sides…
sweetsparkle80 on
Looks like some states need to study harder for the equality exam!
BoBoZoBo on
I am sure this will change radically depending on how you define what that means. Plus, a lot of this is more localized than it is by state. Nice, but a but meaningless.
AileenKitten on
Hi from Idaho 👋
*sobs in Bi in the corner*
derliebesmuskel on
So since the ‘rights, laws, and freedoms’ of LGBTQ+ people’s have in these states are all the same, this really just shows ‘public attitudes’. Why not just label the graph thus?
Wonkas_Willy69 on
Attitudes aside, what rights are specifically denied in the lower scoring states?
![[OC] US states by LGBTQ+ equality](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/v46c8t57z99f1-994x1024.png "[OC] US states by LGBTQ+ equality")
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Source: [Equaldex ](https://www.equaldex.com/equality-index/united-states)
Tools: [Datawrapper ](https://www.datawrapper.de/)
On an intuitive scale from 55 to 87!
What makes Iceland so much higher than everyone else?
Beautiful example of “scientific study prooves that scientific studies conclusions depend on who orders it”
What rights vary from state to state? I imagine the greatest influence on a state’s score is public attitudes
55 seems… oddly high, with the laws certain red states are passing specifically to punish trans people
Seems like a reductionist view. LGBTQ+ being lumped as one group with completely aligned goals doesn’t get to the heart of the issue and isn’t great data. If the data sampled those for/against gay rights and split that out from other hot button issues, like competing in sports, gender ops in children, and otherwise took LGBTQ+ letter by letter, the field would likely not look nearly as dire.
What year was the data from? Utah has taken some huge steps backwards. Even the protections they had before always had exemptions for religious institutions, which hold huge amounts of housing and are among the largest employers
mississippi comparable to japan? here i come!
Iowa is NOT a good state. It is as bad as Florida which is a no-travel zone for trans people. Trans Iowans are losing healthcare and our civil rights protections. Both laws signed and the latter starts the first next month.
Pretty sure the only real differences here are on the T part. Gay rights are ubiquitous.
as a trans person, public acceptance depends alot more on if you are in a rural or urban area than the state, ive lived in florida and PA and Orlando Florida was alot more accepting socially than rural PA
I’m always impressed by Utah in charts like this. If the Mormons manage to be nice, why do all the crazies in the Midwest Bible Belt have to be assholes?
I get how the LG and T are relevant for the rights argument, but what differences in rights, laws and freedoms are there for the BQ+?
Rights and public attitude bundled as a single score?
I’m sorry but that’s a terrible measurement
Ooo, ooo, now overlay “education ranking” and “percentage of population subsisting on welfare”!
In the end, every map is a Civil War map.
The south carolina sandwich with NC and Georgia bread on these types of maps
Makes me hungry
It seems that Mississippi is continuously at the bottom (or the very top in some cases…) so I think we can just cut that state off. Boost our averages
Every data point I see, says the South is doing really poorly, and it makes me wonder if you can ever truly win or end a civil war. They seem insistent on never recovering and remaining salty forever.
Looking at the details of the scoring, it seems overly indexed on gender identity.
A country (or state) that declares all homosexual activity to be punishable by death gets a smaller penalty (-100) as a country or state that does not recognize a right to change your gender including non-binary genders (-130 total across five categories). Obviously these things nest, so that a country that gets -100 for making all homosexual activity punishable by death almost certainly does not recognize gender identity and so will get a -230 anyway, but it means that the differences at the margins are magnified.
The differences in rights between a 30 and 55 are likely much larger than the difference in rights between a 55 and 100.
The overlap of a lot of confederate states speaks to something…..
Not surprising, the lowest state is fucking Mississippi.
The spirit of Massachusetts is the spirit of America,
The spirit of what’s old and what’s new,
The spirit of Massachusetts is the spirit of America,
The spirit of the red white and blue
This map is just a vibe check from subjective sources.
What does 100 look like, what does 0 look like? What is societal equality a measure of? Two people in the same state can have wildly different experiences based on immeasurable circumstances.
Equality is an ideal, not a statistic.
The east coast should just move to the west coast so we can all be homies
But west coast best coast come on over if you don’t want to be around terrible people as frequently.
West coast best coast, as always
Positively surprised at the positions of Utah and Montana. Not surprised by any CSA state except VA, but I’m sure that’s owing to the proximity to DC.
The inclusion of the T confuses me. Let me love who I love is such a different ask than I am something that I’m not.
Maps of the USA that are just civil war sides…
Looks like some states need to study harder for the equality exam!
I am sure this will change radically depending on how you define what that means. Plus, a lot of this is more localized than it is by state. Nice, but a but meaningless.
Hi from Idaho 👋
*sobs in Bi in the corner*
So since the ‘rights, laws, and freedoms’ of LGBTQ+ people’s have in these states are all the same, this really just shows ‘public attitudes’. Why not just label the graph thus?
Attitudes aside, what rights are specifically denied in the lower scoring states?
What a shocker, the Bible Belt sucks. Again.