I think there are some varied skews here. It seems that we do well on representation of trans people generally and queer women relative to the total number of women, but not on queer men relative to the number of men. I think there are probably more political queer men (rejection of gay/straight binary sort of thing) than in most communities, but not many men who regularly sleep or seek to sleep with men. I know I was in the community for years before meeting one.
So yes, I think the skew is toward straight, white dudes, and I’ll say I do find the machismo off-putting even as a fairly straight-passing gay man.
We also have way more trans women than society at large.
I think there are some varied skews here. It seems that we do well on representation of trans people generally and queer women relative to the total number of women, but not on queer men relative to the number of men. I think there are probably more political queer men (rejection of gay/straight binary sort of thing) than in most communities, but not many men who regularly sleep or seek to sleep with men. I know I was in the community for years before meeting one.
So yes, I think the skew is toward straight, white dudes, and I’ll say I do find the machismo off-putting even as a fairly straight-passing gay man.