'Mx' and non gender specific pronouns.

[casebro]

A recent scientific study of revealed that as many as 55% of people are trans and 91% self-identify under at least one letter of the LGBTQ alphabet.

Source: my facebook friends and social circle.

I feel slighted. I thought all of us here at ISF were in your Social Circle, and you didn't even ask me.

 

[Dessi]

I feel slighted. I thought all of us here at ISF were in your Social Circle, and you didn't even ask me.

Well in that case, my gay social circle just increased to 98%

 

[casebro]

Depends on your definition of 'rare'. According to Gallup polling, the percentage of the population in the U.S. who identify as LGBT is 3.8%. Those specifically identifying as trans were 0.6% of the population.

(This Gallup poll from earlier this year found that Americans greatly overestimate the percentage of the population who identify as gay or lesbian. The mean guess was 23% of the population; the actual percentage who identify as LGBT was 3.8%.)

This from the link:

Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted May 6-10, 2015, with a random sample of 1,024 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. All reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting.

Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 50% cellphone respondents and 50% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline and cellular telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods.

View survey methodology, complete question responses, and trends.

 

[casebro]

Well in that case, my gay social circle just increased to 98%

If by that you meant that your social circle is about 14, you are more of a hermit than I thought. I think you missed the whole of ISF as members of your social circle.

Also, if you meant you were adding one 'gay vote', me, you are wrong. And I'm not even trying to 'pass'.

 

[Corsair 115]

This from the link:

95% confidence level for the results. Sounds pretty good to me. And if you have better data than Gallup or other similar research organization, feel free to present it.

 

[casebro]

95% confidence level for the results. Sounds pretty good to me. And if you have better data than Gallup or other similar research organization, feel free to present it.

The 95% is "if we called everybody in the USA we would get the same results, +/- 4%". But do you really think phone polls are reality ? But I am not arguing with the poll of "how many gays do you think there are, as a percent of population". It's the poll of "are you LGBT?" that I doubt the 3.8% results. And was that one 95% confidence +/-4% too? so zero to 8, a variable of 100%?

Here's a small poll for you to take among your gay friends- "Would you tell a stranger on the phone that you are gay?". Oh, there are plenty of outed gays here at ISF, but they have anonymity here. Hey, start a poll here, "Are you LGBT? Phone number required" and see what you get.

I don't know the answer, I don't much care. But on my one block long street, it's 20% "partners". So I wonder at the poll methods.

 

[Brian-M]

I'm surprised the bookstore mentioned in the OP didn't come up with gender neutral terms for "feminism" or "feminine products".

There's a mention in the article of the store's "selection of black women poetry". I wonder if it also has selections of black men poetry, white women poetry, asian intersex poetry, Native American transexual poetry, polynesian asexual poetry, ect, or if the store is intentionally discriminating by race and sex in this respect.

(I also wonder if the store has a simple gender-neutral poetry section like many regular bookstores do.)

 

[Corsair 115]

The thing that has always struck me as odd about that is that in every single work I've seen that has ever done it, it's universally the male term that the society has adopted for everyone.

So for instance, in Star Trek it's "Mister Saavik", rather than "Miss Kirk". One wonders why that is.

I'd guess because for men there was only one honorific (Mr) while for women there were two (Miss and Mrs), and later a third (Ms). Thus hearing "Mr." was more a more frequent occurrence, so it go there first, so to speak.

The 95% is "if we called everybody in the USA we would get the same results, +/- 4%". But do you really think phone polls are reality ? But I am not arguing with the poll of "how many gays do you think there are, as a percent of population". It's the poll of "are you LGBT?" that I doubt the 3.8% results. And was that one 95% confidence +/-4% too? so zero to 8, a variable of 100%?

Here's a small poll for you to take among your gay friends- "Would you tell a stranger on the phone that you are gay?". Oh, there are plenty of outed gays here at ISF, but they have anonymity here. Hey, start a poll here, "Are you LGBT? Phone number required" and see what you get.

I don't know the answer, I don't much care. But on my one block long street, it's 20% "partners". So I wonder at the poll methods.

Feel free to call Gallup or Pew Research or whomever and tell them they're doing it wrong. Maybe they'll hire you on as an expert consultant!