

I wonder - what is the actual audience for approval rating polls?
The folks most affected by high prices or mass layoffs are probably struggling too much to have the time or inclination. Around 30% of the country didn’t even show up for the election, they probably won’t show up for these.
Who does that leave us with? Can we really assume that ‘47% approval’ translates to ‘47% of all Americans approve’?
The strongest predictor for someone being accepting of trans people is… knowing trans people.
Or even knowing of trans people. I was raised in a conservative family and society. If not for access to the stories of trans people that the internet gave me, I would probably have ended up as a deeply repressed, self-hating transphobe.
The world needs us.