9 Take Pride Report - June 2022 The way in which gender affects the public’s feelings towards trans people is consistent with the way it affects their feelings to lesbian, gay and bi people. Women are more likely to respect and admire trans people, and less likely to pity them, or to have feelings of disgust, fear, resentment or envy about them. This is this is in line with all available good quality data on the UK public’s attitudes to trans people, and to trans people’s human rights. These findings should therefore be uncontroversial, but they are worth remarking on precisely because the UK has become famous around the world for having a public conversation and a national media that relentlessly and negatively focuses on trans people. Core to this has been the idea that trans women in particular pose a threat to cis women’s safety and empowerment. Yet despite years of prominent discourse in traditional and social media, women remain less likely to feel negatively about trans people than men. This striking finding is testament to a fundamentally liberal and inclusive outlook.