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This is wild to me. Don't get me wrong, I believe you 100%, but it's strange to imagine actually experiencing this because all of the anti-LGBT people I've encountered have been aggressively hostile toward and immediately dismissive of any evidence against their positions.
It helps that they're already on the anti-racism and workers rights train. My parents still haven't come around because they have liberal brainworms, though my grandma has used her power as matriarch to bully them into being nicer. Shes pretty well known in our village back in Czechia, everyone knows her, so she kinda made it her business to begin to convince people. Theres also just the fact that it isn't America. The default for LGBT people is obscurity, only in America and Western Europe is there a big political debate about it, though that is spreading to Eastern Europe too as time goes on.
It definitely puts new light on the claim stupidpol types love to make about how "all of the working class people outside of the west hate gay people, so the LGBT movement is bourgeois and imperialist."
It's nonsense. Most people don't even know being gay or trans is a thing outside the west. It's a curse and a blessing.
Shit, the idea wasnt even particularly well known in the west until the 80s and 90s. Like I didn't even know being gay or trans was an option until I was like 14.
It makes sense, because in many places in the West, anti-LGBT rhetoric is like a huge and longstanding cultural project. A significant number of Christians believe that if they treat enough gay people with respect, God will get fed up at some point and genocide the entire society. If I was an American evangelical Christian, I would believe that one gay person walking around minding their own business is a greater threat of human misery than infinite Holocausts.
In some other places it might be a lot shallower, like just a vague belief in traditional gender roles and a deference to the word of their geriatric asshole relatives.