The United Kingdom isn't a great place for trans people right now. It seems that there is an opinion piece or newspaper article demonising trans people every other day, and many of the worlds most outspoken transphobes are British, JK Rowling being a recent and loud addition to these ranks.
Despite the constant media attacks on trans people, which are so bad that trans people have been gaining asylum in other nations and have been considering leaving the UK, a new poll by YouGov has revealed that the majority of those asked support trans rights.
In a poll by YouGov for the LGBTQ+ new publication Pink News, the results showed that 57% of women surveyed said that they agree that trans people should have the right to self-identify as their chosen gender. This might not seem like a huge amount, but this is more than half, and by Brexit standards it's overwhelming and cannot be questioned.
Only 21% of those asked said that they were actively against trans people being able to self-identify. This seems to echo claims that whilst transphobes have extremely loud voices, and are given platforms to spout their hate at an overwhelming weight, they are a minority of people.
The poll also found that 50% of the population were in favour of self-identification, whilst only 27% were against it, with the remaining 23% unsure of how they felt.
This poll comes shortly after thousands of trans people and their supporters took to the streets in major cities across the UK on July 4th to protest against the governments plans to scrap reforms planned for the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) that were revealed in a leaked document reported by the Sunday Times.
Labour MP Dawn Butler has spoken about the results, saying 'It's reassuring to find out that so many women believe the same as I do, that trans women are women, trans men are men, and that trans rights don't and shouldn't come at the expense of anyone else's rights. The fact that so many more women believe in trans people self-identifying as a gender different to that they were assigned at birth shows that often the transphobic rhetoric we constantly hear about trans people being a danger to single-sex spaces is only being spoken by a vocal minority.'
As is often the case with positive trans news stories, these results have yet to be featured in the mainstream press, unlike transphobic articles.
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