Numbers - The Truth of Partner's Acceptance
Ok, this study isn’t following all the rules of proper social science, but it is interesting all the same.
Nadine has gone through posts and comments over at Crossdressers.com in order to see how the partners of the forum’s members react when they find out that their loved one is gender variant.
This is what she finds:
Of the 458 members I have included:
363 did not leave the relationship upon the reveal
280 are at least somewhat accepting
29 are in what is called a Don’t Ask Don’t Tell situation
45 didn’t leave but are not accepting of the partner’s gender variance
23 are accepting genetic women
74 are partners who left because of the gender variance
20 left but not because of the gender variance
She reports that 84% of partners did not leave the relationship upon the reveal.
74% percent of the partners are at least somewhat accepting of the gender variance, and 68% can be considered to be openly accepting of their partner’s gender variance.
Photo of Helen Boyd and her “husband”, now wife, Betty.