"Do you support gender diversity?" "Well, our government says if I don't, it's potentially a hate crime/hate speech -- sorta like calling out the genocide in Israel gets termed as such, or questioning the narrative around first nations -- so, uh, yes, I support it, sure whatever, so long as there's no financial commitment involved or followup questions. Let me get back to my life".

As the commenter below demonstrated, there is a growing number of Canadians falling for misinformation.

Bill C-9 was about stopping hateful people from using religion to justify the crimes they had already committed. But the propogandists told them it classified the bible as hate speech.

Clearly they are misappropriating Pro-Palestine censorship in the UK to validate their entitlement to baselessly espouse residential denialism.

Most of my community is Christian/conservative and while I see more people espousing anti-trans views, it's all chronically online people who I know personally stopped forming their own opinions in 2016.

The context behind poll numbers like this is that MAGA is scraping the bottom the barrel. Same total support, but more MAGAs signing up to answer surveys.

[–] wampus@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Idk, I see these kinds of headlines and I can't help but think about how skewed/messed up government studies/statscan data seems to be. Like there was a study released this year about how women working as TFW's in the interior/north of BC are mistreated. CBC, I think, went up to talk to people in the region, and they were all like "Women? Everyone, what's this women only thing? We're all facing potentially precarious work conditions / abuse from our bosses". So the data, as presented by our ideologically motivated/biased government, does not reflect the reality on the ground.

I'd argue that acceptance of the rather far-left gender-diversity crowds multitude of genders was always generally low, and largely based on opinions of convenience for people asked. "Do you support gender diversity?" "Well, our government says if I don't, it's potentially a hate crime/hate speech -- sorta like calling out the genocide in Israel gets termed as such, or questioning the narrative around first nations -- so, uh, yes, I support it, sure whatever, so long as there's no financial commitment involved or followup questions. Let me get back to my life".

Most older folks are likely 'fine' with male/female, gay/lesbian/bi. The two survey questions the article highlights, are specifically if you'd support a family member who came out as trans, and whether people should be free to express their gender however they want. Back in the earlier survey, they didn't ask the same trans question, so the inferred decrease in support there is totally misleading. As for people expressing themselves, back before the gender folks got pushing and it was mainly viewed as 'just' male/female gay/lesbian/bi, you hadn't had cases like that shop teacher in Ontario dressing up as a garish trans-woman (I believe it was, months and months later, out'd as a fraud he was committing for some benefits etc). You also didn't have as aggressive a push to educate young children about the fringe cases of sexuality / expose them to that stuff with clearly political/ideological intentions, I mean, no real surprise in my book that people are less inclined to say "Yeah, sure, express away!" and are leaning more towards there being limits when it comes to social spaces.