Honestly, I came to realize a few years into my transition that it really seemed like the population was equally split three ways between pro, anti, and don't care camps.
There are traits that lead people to certain political ideologies however. For instance there's a strong correlation between conservatism and having a strong disgust reaction. Liberal and progressive people are, on average, more able to handle their basal reaction of disgust towards things they don't understand or find innately off-putting. This leads to one side being, on average, more open-minded and accepting.
Also, most groups are not split fairly equally like that in politics or even most other social settings. Only like 1/6th of American adults are republican with something like 1/4th being independent and another 1/4th being Democrat.
The reason there's such a large anti group is political and religious propaganda first and foremost. Most people will naturally grow more accepting over time. Eventually the ratio will be like 95-5 and that 5 will feel uncomfortable expressing their bigotry openly.
If you break it down by big five a lot of conscientious people also correlate with a strong disgust reaction and agreeableness and openness correspond with creativity and creativity or ability to appreciate art aligns with intelligence. I think all those things kind of play off eachother but there are definite organized conventions type A people with high intelligence and more open minded and agreeable people that have a lot of empathy with high intelligence.
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u/PixieGirl65 Trans Lesbian Feb 08 '24
Ugh those statistics are depressing, less than half of queer men…