It’s actually lower than 10%. I had always commonly heard 10% and was shocked to learn that it’s more like 4.5%.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/259571/americans-greatly-overestimate-gay-population.aspx
It’s like 40% in those under 18 because of social pressures from the LGBTQ community. And less than 1% in those over like…50 or something…
It’s because they’re represented far greater than is proportional for their community.
Like, you’ll never see a dark black person on TV, or almost any Asian people. But guaranteed there will be a VERY light skinned black person, and someone who’s gay at the very least. Almost never any hispanic people in our television either.
TBH IDK why there is so much woke hype about LGBTQ+ here on lemmy, trans here trans there… I believe it’s more like some kind of propaganda to get votes from young people.
People here give too much importance for 4.5% of the population.
Because that 4.5% of the population is deserving of the same human rights as anyone else, and when they are denied those rights, they are more susceptible to abuse and suicide.
Yeah I mean I understand that point, what I cannot understand it’s why the media it’s pushing and pushing and pushing it over and over again.
I think it’s good caring about LGBTQ+ people, but personally I reached a point when seeing it every single day in the news over and over again become a meh.
Malnutrition in children not only in America but throughout the world is a more worrying issue than that and I don’t see anyone pushing it over and over again every single day.