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[โ€“] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So you see something that concerned 2% to 15% of the population use to hide in the closet and or we didn't talk about it or know.

Now people are done hiding. Which impacts tons of people who barely understand their anatomy let alone their wives. When school never taught intersex and gender despite it being a thing that was understood in science in the 60s and 70s. A lot of people are suddenly confronted with a reality they don't understand. When peoples bubbles are popped first comes rejection of thing then comes fear and anger. Issue is with 8 billion people there is constantly people learning about sexual orientation, gender, and sex.

Let's not even talk about the internalize confusion of you people either. This is just current existing people learning about this stuff today.

[โ€“] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

it's only the lucky and the people with enough support in urban enough environments that are not hiding anymore; everyone else is still stuck in the closet.

[โ€“] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Very fair. Still the cuntry side are seeing them in their media and world more and more

[โ€“] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Which made them react by passing laws like doma and don't ask don't tell.

Best case scenario is that they pass respect for marriage act which did absolutely nothing but give legal protection for anti-gay bigotry since the supreme court already invalidated all anti-gay marriage laws almost a decade before hand.