Nearly half of Americans don't want politicians focusing on trans issuesA new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll shows a disconnect between Trump's aggressive anti-trans policies and what Americans want from their politicians.
Link to Full ArticleThe 19th - Jasmine Mithani
April 28, 2025, 3:00 a.m. MT
President Donald Trump has taken aim at trans people during his first 100 days in office in his second term. He has sought to restrict access to accurate passports, erase the accomplishments of trans elders, remove transgender members from the military and purge the government of what he has termed "woke gender ideology." But a new ... poll shows that 49 percent of Americans think politicians should not be focusing on transgender issues at all.
... despite the Trump administration's attempts to erase trans people from public life, the majority of Americans (59 percent) support the right of transgender adults to access gender-affirming care. However, fewer Americans, 43 percent, support the right of trans youth to seek such care. That doesn't necessarily translate into a desire for bans. In fact, 55 percent opposed laws that would restrict gender-affirming care for minors, including 41 percent of Republicans and 57 percent of Independents.
The majority of Americans are not confident that politicians are informed enough about gender-affirming care for transgender minors to make fair policy.
Women continue to be more likely than men to support access to gender-affirming care for both adults (65 percent versus 52 percent) and youth (46 percent versus 38 percent).-------------------------------
This survey admittedly collected only binary gender data, but "a 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll from September showed widespread support for access among nonbinary and transgender Americans."
It's not all doom & gloom. We have much more support among the populace than we see. I expect we will start seeing a strong shift when enough people get fed up with the BS and start changing their votes during the mid-term elections.
