Connections between sexuality/gender and left politics?

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I've always been kind of curious to know how sexuality and gender (esp. transgender people) affects people's political affiliations. Most friends I have around are queer, and tend to have some form of left politics. This applies much more heavily to trans people I've noticed (myself included). Other than a couple trans celebrities, I don't think I know a single "liberal" or right-leaning trans person, most of them I know are either some form of communist/anarchist or at the most moderate, a bernie-type social democrat.

My main theory comes from the effects of some form of oppression experienced by these groups. I see a lot less cis, white, male gays on the more radical side because, like it or not, they are the most societally accepted whereas the trans person (of any race/gender) is not only targeted and used as a scapegoat by the right, but experiences a marginalization by our own community at times. But I'm curious to see the outcomes.

I'm aware that SpaceHey probably isn't the most active place to post this kind of stuff, but I'll have the resources to do an actual study on it eventually.

So if you don't mind could you list:

> Your Political Affiliation

> Your Sexuality

> Your Gender (please specify if you are not cisgender)

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To start off with myself I am: > A communist / Marxist-Leninist > A Lesbian > Transfemme

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> Punk/Leftist, generally unaligned. > Transmasc? Butch? I call myself a man and boy and use he/it pronouns, but it's weirder than that.  > Bisexual

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I’m a bisexual Marxist. I’m a cis woman and use she/her pronouns.

a high concentration of my friends are trans partly because, anecdotally, we have a lot of political/ideological alignment (aka what you observe is correct in my experience. I just happen to have both reading comprehension and empathy for other human beings so though I’m not a gender minority I’m still very far left).

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> punk / anarchist / queer-anarchist / anarcho-syndicalist / leftist > pan-lesbian aroacefluid > trans panxenogender

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> Your Political Affiliation: A Bomb ass, Marxist-Leninist ^_^ > Your Sexuality: Lesbian > Your Gender Female, SHE / HER

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>Anarchist by principles

>aroace

>non-binary gender

Id say its simply because the right doesnt accept queer identities. Even liberal and centrist politics often exclude queer identities that are supposedly going too far. The choice is between being accepted by those on the left, and being repressed & forced to perform a “respectable” version of your identity by those on the right. Or of course not engaging in politics at all

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> Your Political Affiliation: I'm not really into politics, so I guess I'd say I'm apolitical.

> Your Sexuality: Queer/Pan?.. I'm not sure how I really feel about labeling myself yet, but I feel these are the closest to my feelings.

> Your Gender: Female (any pronouns are fine tho)

Hope this helps! :-)

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Marxist/Leninist non-binary demisexual?? pansexual?? greysexual?? I dunno :3  something in that area

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- i haven't settled in one place but somewhere around socialist and/or anarchist - gay (mlm) - trans + genderfluid (view myself as a guy like 75% of the time), assigned female at birth

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> anarcho-primitivist > Bisexual/Pansexual > Male (Cisgender)

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> Your Political Affiliation - Leftist I suppose > Your Sexuality - Asexual Lesbian likely on the Aromantic spectrum > Your Gender  - Non-Binary / IDK

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