Posted on 06/03/2023 8:43:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Recent polling on transgender rights has been fairly uniform, but you won’t see that reflected in the headlines touting the surveys.
“Americans’ Complex Views on Gender Identity and Transgender Issues,” read a headline from Pew Research last year. In fact, the only issue on which Americans even slightly disagree is whether transgender people should be protected from discrimination. Otherwise, 60% believe a person’s sex is assigned at birth, and even larger percentages say that trans athletes should compete against others of their birth gender.
There’s nothing really “complex” about how Americans feel when it comes to transgender issues. Nor are they really “divided” as NPR reporting on the same poll claims. Whenever the results of a poll disappoint many in the mainstream media, attention is drawn away from the actual results by highlighting whatever divisions are present.
Now, Rasmussen Polling has brushed away all the fluff and asked four basic questions about transgender rights for which the results cannot be questioned or spun. The first is the most basic of all.
Hot Air’s Jazz Shaw quoted the poll, “Do you agree or disagree with this statement: ‘There are two genders, male and female’?” Seventy-one percent agreed with the statement, including 57% who “strongly” agreed. That included 57% of Democrats.
In fact, the results have barely changed since the original kerfluffle over J.K. Rowling’s comment that there are only two genders caused trans activists’ heads to explode. But some scientists have gotten very busy trying to redefine the biology of gender so the jury is still out on how long our definition of gender will reflect actual science and not pseudo-science.
There were some equally lopsided opinions about other hot-button transgender issues.
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Indeed.
AND, even after our pets are spayed or “neutered”, they are STILL male or female. Even an operation does not change their sex.
Upon further consideration and not knowing how the question was put to the public, maybe 60% is understandable. “Gender assigned at birth?” Truly that begs more than one question, starting with whether we are speaking merely in clerical terms.
Somebody call me when a “Trans-man” wins the Mr. Olympia contest.
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