It may be shocking to see someone work directly against their own interests this way, but it shouldn’t be especially shocking that they’re trans.
Gender-normativity never had and never will have a monopoly on opportunists, trolls, and morons.
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality found that only two percent of trans people were Republicans. By 2022, a large Washington Post / Kaiser Family Foundation poll found the number had risen to ten percent, suggesting that Angel is part of an ongoing trend.
This is the more shocking part of the article. Any sufficiently sized group will have some subset of assholes. The fact that the percentage of assholes has quadrupled in 7 years is troubling.
Agreed, the trend would be troubling, especially if the explanation is that trans individuals’ political ideologies are shifting right. But there are other explanations we might entertain first.
For example, it’s not unlikely that the cohort inclined to identify as trans on a questionnaire has become not just larger but more ideologically inclusive via nascent mainstreaming. Meaning the trend could be mostly or entirely explained by recently affirmed gender identities, people who now feel ready/comfortable/safe to identify who didn’t before.
IIRC mainstreaming of homosexuality saw similar trends; e.g., more openly gay republicans, leading to similar speculation of a rightward shift when it was really just an expected statistical artifact being misinterpreted.
How many of those are people who would have just been closeted/eggs 7 years ago?
I think buck angel has been a piece of shit for a long time….