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my dude, that was one incident. i am posting all up and down the fediverse about working with homelessness. why do you think i was talking with the son. how many of these do you want because i have hundreds. i have been doing this since i was... fuck. i can't remember not working with homelessness charities. it's just something my family has done. the biggest shelter in town is literally on a street named after me.
Goddam, Minnesota. Huge props to your work. You have my admiration.
For it to be data rather than anecdotes, you need to gather the data. Survey not just the examples you have, but the people outside of the demographics you work with. Form the questions in a way that gathers the data you really want - split it out to give you granularity. Are you a member of gen X? Are you LGBT+ yourself? Do you consider yourself an ally? Do you support the gay community? Do you support the lesbian community? Do you support the trans community?
Right now, the cohort you have the most experience with is the people who have suffered, which will skew your conclusions. However, this is the anecdotal evidence that tells you something is fishy. The next step is to get actual statistics.
my dude, i ran the organization for two decades i have the statistics. just the ones i have are a decade old. I had to retire due to disability.
this is literally my wheelhouse.
Like the parent said, you’re only seeing the bad cases. The ones where they say “you’re trans? Get out of my house!” So of course they’re homeless and you work with them. I’m an ally for trans folks as much as I am anyone else. I can tell you there are countless other Gen X’ers who are the same. You’re seeing one angle on it and having seen so much of that, you’re convinced it’s the entirety. People are shitty to their kids a lot, but there are lots of people who aren’t and accept their kids as they are.
yes, i am personally only seeing the bad cases. but i have access to all the statistics.
because i ran a series of homeless shelters. that's what i did for 20 years. as a side hustle. because i'm disabled when you're actually disabled you get paid 1/3 the market rate so you have to work 3 full time jobs to survive.
stop making shit up in your head because it makes you feel better. i did not pull numbers out of my ass. only 30% of gen x parents in the san francisco bay area are accepting to their lgbtq kids. 70% are actively hostile. we're one of the gay capitals of the world, so how much worse is it elsewhere?
we ran the surveys. i have degrees in economics. my economics degree is shit. i hired a better econometrist than me to run the surveys for me. would you like to hear about the focus groups? would you like to be in one of the focus groups? please, what else are you going to make up?
Well then I’m sorry for being GenX, I guess I’m not an ally like I thought I was.