Poll finds declining Canadian support for LGBTQ2 rights and visibility
Poll finds declining Canadian support for LGBTQ2 rights and visibility
Poll finds declining Canadian support for LGBTQ2 rights and visibility
Poll finds declining Canadian support for LGBTQ2 rights and visibility
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* On the eve of Pride month, a new poll has found declining support for LGBTQ2 rights in Canada.
* The Ipsos survey polled adults on a variety of metrics measuring support for the queer community. Canada, it found, was among the few countries where support for rights and visibility appeared to register “precipitous drops,” Ipsos vice-president of public affairs Sanyam Sethi said.
* “What really stood out to me was how starkly Canadians are changing their opinions,” she said. “On some of these support aspects the drops in Canada are the highest across all 26 countries we have trend data for.”
* One area where attitudes appeared to have shifted was support for LGBTQ2 visibility. While 49% of respondents agreed with people being open about their sexual orientation or gender identity, that still put Canada in the bottom 10 of countries measured. What’s more, the number was down by 12 per cent from 2021.
* Similarly, the poll found support for LGBTQ2 people showing affection in public (kissing or holding hands) at 40%, down eight points from 2021. Just one-third of respondents supported more LGBTQ2 characters on screen, down 10% from 2021.
* Just half of Canadian respondents to the survey supported openly gay lesbian, gay and bisexual athletes in sports teams, down 11 points from 2021. Just one in five respondents supported transgender athletes.
* Sethi said the report wasn’t all bad news for LGBTQ2 rights. 75% of Canadian respondents backed same-sex unions, four points above the global average, while 70 per cent supported the rights of same-sex couples to adopt, seven points above the global average.
I think for the most part Canadians accept that there are LGBTQ people and don’t care what you do in your own bedroom, but they have become more resistant to the very vocal and extreme fringe.
I think a large portion of this is that current activism goes far beyond what people see as fair, and is pushing into defending the indefensible. These activists don’t represent the views of the average gay or transgender person, and they may not even be members of the LGBT community themselves.
Probably because the current iteration of the movement associated itself heavily with public celebrations and displays of sexual kink, fervent religious levels of sexual/ gender indoctrination, and the constantly required reaffirmation of everyone’s acceptance (and not just tolerance).
It also probably reflects the growing foreign-born population of Canada, the vast majority of which come from non-Western countries.
I think a large part of it is simply because the LGBTQ2 community itself can be a problem. By all means, love who you want to love, fuck who you want to fuck (within consent obviously) but don’t start blasting people who are bi or pan that also prefer the opposite sex. Don’t claim that those who are bi aren’t part of the community and maybe if you preach inclusivity don’t do dumb shit like forbidding others from certain groups or organizations from taking part in the celebrations.
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Canadians tolerated and accepted the LGBTQ movement, until it started DEMANDING compliance and celebration.
Pride Winnipeg had vehicles towed from a lot that wasn’t reserved for them.
Why? Because they’ve become arrogant and entitled. They’ve been pissing off people dealing with them for a few years and then they act like it’s bigotry.
No, you’re assholes.
That’s crazy, the trends are basically on lockstep with rising Conservative support. 🤔
They’re happy with LGB rights. They’re happy with most T rights.
They’re unhappy with the gender movement which has nothing to do with LGBs or most Ts, and they’re unhappy with their minor children being empowered to make life altering decisions without even being informed of them by their doctors or teachers
I think the vast majority of Canadians completely accept people to choose their sexuality and honestly don’t care what people choose either way. Happy for them to live their lives and enjoy life, regardless of who they choose to spend their time with.
I suspect the decline in support is due to a lot of extreme members of that community which very visibly are just trying to get a reaction from the average person, or more specifically the other end of the spectrum so they can deem it as hate. Both sides extremists are the loudest, but the vast majority of people are in the middle. The loudest are wearing down the people in the middle.
It’s to the point where even the people in the middle (on both sides) are experiencing exhaustion from the movement being everywhere constantly. Not just by parades, events, etc, but by every single mass corporation now taking part in ‘awareness’ with their logos changing, commercials, virtue signaling, etc. We have crossed the tipping point where awareness has now caused social fatigue and people are just tired of hearing about it (and really everything; politics, climate, etc). I think people in the middle now just want peace and silence. Essentially “Do what you want, as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody I don’t care, but stop screaming about it everywhere I go”… which applies to basically every mass awareness and movement (not just LGBTQ+)
I have no issues with the LGBTQ community, and I think you should be able to love whoever you want. The issue I and I think more Canadians are having is that they want absolute acceptance by everyone and absolute acceptance for everything they do. They also have had a habit of banning people they don’t like. They don’t allow police officers in Vancouver despite the fact that the VPD has to protect the whole parade. There were accusations of people exposing themselves to children at the Toronto pride parade. So I think that’s part of it. Plus, in general, it feels like it’s being shoved in our faces more.
Thats what happen when you use the gay as a spearhead for all your political issue
Nobody cares. Just be whoever you are and stop trying to shove it down everyone’s throat all the time. Nobody gives a shit.
I don’t think it’s queer activism, it’s a total swing to the far right bat wing crazy mega political culture in the US that is influencing Canadian culture.
Just tired of it being in our faces.
Tierd if the he/him they/them bs
The refrain in these comments almost seems AI-generated in how essentially the same point is restated in different ways. The reason being ascribed is that the LGBT are too showy. The real reason is we have imported way too many new Canadians from places that hate minorities.
Is two guys kissing in public considered shoving in your face?
They have rights like every other person in the country. People are getting tired of someone else’s sexuality being upfront and center of everything.
Maybe, just maybe, the 1 million people we’re importing per year are not that friendly to the cause? Or is that racist to say?
I haven’t noticed any change, this seems like subconscious support for the liberals
people are sick of the bullshit. Always have been.
As long as bigots, prejudice, assault and thought crime are still *perceived-active/trending* by the victims, then expect Pride, Kink and Fetishism to continue to be shoved down not only your throats, but your children’s too.
**Any dissent, any disagreement**, and you risk socio-economic damage. All you can do is become the river, go with the flow. There is nothing else you can do to stop the flow of Progress.
Stand in my face yelling about your cause long enough and eventually I’m going to think you are an asshole.
I couldn’t care less about what you do with your life. Have at it, you live your life I will live mine. Enjoy.
The thing about a progressive movement is that there’s no logical place for it to stop.
It’s not that we don’t support people’s rights to be who they are. We just don’t want it forced down our throat.
The world has bigger problems
I think majority of people are accepting but it’s like anything that if it’s not in your bubble, you don’t understand it or used to seeing it, experiencing it. Most in urban cities are used to it because they have friends, colleagues and neighbours who are gay and in suburbia and rural areas they just don’t experience the same exposure. Most from the gay community leave those areas even before they’re out so they can live a more excepted life elsewhere. Now that trans and drag wants the same acceptance, it’s harder for those who don’t understand it to accept more especially when it’s more visible who they are.
lol, all the remarks about basic rights and equality being “shoved down your throat”… Poor you lol! “Don’t shove it in my face” they say as they wave their F Trudeau flags and spew hatred at people just wanting to live their lives in peace…
All wedge issues are being pumped up the more undeniable it gets that the root of Canada’s most pressing issues are class-based.
This sub is proof of it. Years ago it was a moderate sub filled with all sorts of people, now it’s a pathetic right-wing circle jerk about how bad minorities and lgbt people are
No shock, when a group constantly is in your face about how oppressed they are and needs everyone to declare their an “ally” to their cause…people tend to get annoyed
Well, we are bringing tons of people in from countries that jail gay people… so yah….
Most ppl don’t have issues with first three letters of that community, it’s the other letters in that acronym whom like to impose their ideas on others and be called something they are not and expect us to partake in their delusion
Peoples priorities tend to shift when they can’t afford the cost of living, can’t afford a home or rent, can’t find a job, etc.
I’m kinda just tired of selective outrage and hypocrisy tbh.
Like, I’m all for people being themselves and not being persecuted for it. But I want that to apply to everyone, not just the LGBTQ+ community. For example: It’s really hard to read comments from progressives going to bat for LGBTQ+ folks, just a day after this same faction of people was celebrating a woman losing her job in BC simply because she’s a Jewish Israeli citizen who used to be in the Israeli army…since, you know, Israel has mandatory conscripted service.
It’s just exhausting seeing wokeism being arbitrarily applied to some groups, but not others, and then being gaslit that it has *nothing at all to due with prejudice and discrimination*
I think as a Canadian it’s my obligation to respect the differences of others and support them when their rights are being challenged.
It is NOT my obligation however to honour and celebrate the differences of others.
I don’t understand. Are people in favor of taking rights away? Are there any rights that the community currently don’t possess?
As Douglas Murray says, there is no such thing as an LGBTQ2 “community”. I think most Canadians are perfectly fine with the first three initials. It’s the T part and all the drag queens reading to kids stuff that confuse and push them away. Especially given the “You’re either 100% in support or you’re in Adolph Hitler’s corner” attitude of the activists.
In fact, a lot of what we’re told about how kids who question their gender should be instantly supported, never questioned, and helped to transition goes against studies which show that left alone, or questioned by experts, most of these kids turn out to be gay and lesbian. So the T support goes entirely against Gs and Ls. Anyway, Europeans are starting to put an end to hormone treatments for kids, saying there are precious few real studies showing they’re safe, and they can have lifelong impacts such as making them sterile.
People are focused on trying to eat and afford homes/rent right now. That’s their priority
I don’t care what you’re into. Just don’t bring it out in public.
The sentence/title itself is super stupid. The alphabet community has all of the exact same rights we all do. As do women. Just because certain sexes and races gravitate towards certain jobs, doesn’t mean there’s discrimination.
People are just tired of having stuff shoved in their face when it really isn’t necessary. People can see how children are being used as pawns in this game and are realizing you don’t have to push this stuff on them and confuse them, just teach them to treat everyone the same, and that’s all you need to do. If you take 10 minutes and look into blackrock and their use of ESG scores as investments and comments they’ve made about “forcing behaviours”, you immediately see why people don’t trust this shit.
What rights don’t they have?
Not surprised
If you are a supporter of women’s rights, you are opposed to trans rights. I don’t think men that think they are a woman should be allowed in women’s bathrooms or sports competitions or women’s prisons either.
Why are we still lumping in LGB with the loud TQ++ minority?