It’s June, which means it’s the time of the year when institutions, including businesses and the government, virtue signal about how much they support the LGBT community.
Whether it’s companies changing their profile pictures on social media to incorporate the pride progress flag, municipalities painting rainbows on crosswalks, speeches from politicians, or even the federal government hanging pride flags at the entrances of national parks (as it has done at Acadia National Park), the LGBT community receives plenty of promotion throughout June.
However, no matter how much institutional support Pride Month receives, it is still fringe. Not as many people in the U.S. celebrate Pride Month as you’d think given the cultural hullabaloo, and many of them oppose what it supports despite institutions trying to shove this movement down our throats.
Only about half (51%) of the LGBT-identifying community participate in any Pride Month events, according to a 2022 YouGov poll. Additionally, only about 9% of adults identify as LGBT, according to a 2023 Ipsos poll. That figure even includes bisexual people who have only ever dated or married members of the opposite sex. LGBT-identifying people who celebrate Pride Month, then, represent less than 5% of the population, fewer than 1 in 20 people.
Pride Month also promotes things with which most people in the U.S. disagree. Unbridled support for LGBT issues means standing behind highly unpopular positions. For example, nearly 70% oppose letting males who identify as transgender compete in women’s sports, according to a June 2023 Gallup poll.
They understand that males have an unfair advantage over females, hence why transgender athletes won high school girls track state championships in Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Washington, and Oregon this spring alone. This has also previously happened in other states, such as Massachusetts, and will keep happening in blue states where the LGBT movement dictates policy.
Additionally, roughly three-quarters of the country thinks two genders exist, according to a December 2021 Rasmussen poll, a rejection of fringe gender identities such as “nonbinary.” Unlike the LGBT movement, regular people don’t want “gender X” driver’s licenses.
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Plus, most people reject the concept of transgender children. They oppose using puberty blockers on children and giving minors so-called gender-affirming care, according to a May 2023 Washington Post poll. People realize it’s a terrible idea to perform such life-altering actions on children that they one day may regret.
Companies should appeal to patriotism rather than something as divisive as Pride Month. Most people, whether Republicans, Democrats, or independents, love their country. The same is not true of the LGBT movement.
Tom Joyce (@TomJoyceSports) is a political reporter for the New Boston Post in Massachusetts.
