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Jul. 13th, 2006 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sebastienneYou know how there's no real consensus on the proportion of gay people in the world, and people regularly quote figures anywhere between 2% and 10%?
Well, I've been looking at statistics solidly for the last two weeks.
And, as far as I can tell - they're all right. It just depends on definition. There -is- a reliable trend emerging from the data, if you look at it in the right way.
Yes, ok, only 2-3% of all people identify as gay.
But 10% of all people identify as not heterosexual.
Ten percent. One in ten. That's the same proportion as left-handers! And I can only imagine that the figure will increase, with more and more bisexuals feeling able to express both parts of their nature, instead of funnelling themselves into heteronormativity...
Also, isn't the gender recognition panel just the coolest thing in the world ever?
My response really should be, "about bloody time, it's a basic human right"... but, I guess, when human rights are being eroded everywhere I look, I have a right to be bouncy about the few crumbs that they drop back to us.
Next step - abolishing gender binaries! Abolishing marriage as a legal contract (leaving "marraige" as a term which refers only to religious concerns) and establishing equal civil partenrships for everyone!
Well, I've been looking at statistics solidly for the last two weeks.
And, as far as I can tell - they're all right. It just depends on definition. There -is- a reliable trend emerging from the data, if you look at it in the right way.
Yes, ok, only 2-3% of all people identify as gay.
But 10% of all people identify as not heterosexual.
Ten percent. One in ten. That's the same proportion as left-handers! And I can only imagine that the figure will increase, with more and more bisexuals feeling able to express both parts of their nature, instead of funnelling themselves into heteronormativity...
Also, isn't the gender recognition panel just the coolest thing in the world ever?
My response really should be, "about bloody time, it's a basic human right"... but, I guess, when human rights are being eroded everywhere I look, I have a right to be bouncy about the few crumbs that they drop back to us.
Next step - abolishing gender binaries! Abolishing marriage as a legal contract (leaving "marraige" as a term which refers only to religious concerns) and establishing equal civil partenrships for everyone!
