by TJ Martinell
Most registered voters, 59 percent, support a federal ban on transgender procedures such as puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgeries for minors, a new national poll found.
The strongest support for a federal ban came from registered Republicans (82 percent), while the lowest amount of support for it came from registered Democrats (36 percent). Independents polled offered majority support for a ban, with 56 percent in favor.
The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll was conducted by Noble Predictive Insights between Oct. 2-4 and surveyed 2,560 registered voters. The margin of error for the aggregate sample was ±2.1 percent.
According to the poll, although both sexes favored a federal ban on transgender procedures for minors, men were more likely to favor it, with 63 percent in favor compared to 56 percent for women. Among the ethnicities polled, “others” favored a ban the most at 63 percent compared to 61 percent for Whites. Of Black registered voters polled, 46 percent favored a ban, while 32 percent were opposed and 22 percent were not sure.
Among age demographics, the categories most in favor of a federal ban were 45-54 and 54-65, both of which polled at 61 percent, while 18-34 were the least in favor, albeit still at a 52 percent majority of them still supporting banning the procedures for minors.
Although voters with and without college degrees both favored a federal ban by more than 50 percent, those without degrees favored it more at 61 percent, while 55 percent of voters with a college degree supported a ban.
Voters with children supported a ban more than those without, at 61 percent to 52 percent respectively.
Geographically, rural voters favored a ban more than suburban or urban voters, at 64 percent compared to 57 percent and 58 percent respectively.
Regionally, the Northeast was least supportive of a federal ban, with 51 percent in favor. The South was the most supportive at 61 percent, while the Midwest favored it at 60 percent. Voters in the West favored a ban by 59 percent.
Transgender procedures on minors are now banned in 25 states, including states such as Ohio which, according to data from the nonprofit Do No Harm, was one of the top in the nation for procedures and procedures per capita. According to Do No Harm’s data, released last week, at least 13,994 transgender procedures were performed on minors across the U.S. between 2019-2023, The Center Square reported.
Do No Harm is a nonprofit group of physicians and other medical professionals that gets its name from the Hippocratic oath: “First, do no harm.” According to its website, Do No Harm is “fighting to curtail the unscientific and individually harmful practice of so-called ‘gender affirming care'” for children.
In an email to The Center Square, David Byler with Noble Predictive Insights, wrote that “on many issues surrounding trans rights and students or youth, the GOP has public opinion on their side. There’s a reason that, when you look at GOP ads, they are constantly hammering this and other related issues. And some prominent Democrats are pushing out moderate, rather than left, messages.”
He added that “Republicans know that trans issues are a strong social issue for them – and after getting hit hard on abortion so many times since Dobbs, they want to make sure they’re pushing back and finding social issues that work for them.”
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TJ Martinell is a staff reporter at The Center Square.
I agree with you James except the Federal government wants to use Federal funds, such as Title XIX, to pay for the procedures.
I suspect this was always the case, but no one chose to ask the question. You’ll see the left slowly drift back on this issue until after the election then they will pick up where they left off. Similar to transferring student loan debt, the people say NO.
YOU HAVE TO WONDER.. DO THESE “VOTERS” UNDERSTAND THAT THE BAN IS ONLY FOR MINOR AGE CHILDREN?
THIS SHOULD BE A NO BRAINER.
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IS A CRIME. CHANGING A MINORS SEX IS EVEN WORSE THAN CHILD SEX ABUSE.
THE FEDERAL BAN MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES.
After we saw how easy ” Doctors” abandoned all “DO NO HARM” Practices during the fake Covid Plandemic, it’s not surprising to find out how low some will go to make a buck. Those lowlifes have forced people to take a negative trust in the once respected Medical community, including Hospitals.
I personally was totally shocked, disappointed & disgusted to learn the Vanderbilt University Medical Center was participating in this inhumane activity of providing life altering puberty drugs & surgeries to CHILDREN. It doesn’t matter if tge parents approve or not. Parents have no right to allow ABUSE on their children. Many are convinced by “medical professionals” that these procedures are necessary & life saving, which is FRAUD
I immediately called my Legislative Represrntative & Senator to shout my disgust, and demand a Bill to Stop the Abuse by VUMC be introduced immediately. Thankfully, they responded & banned these disgraceful procedures on minors. HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?
I’m not naive enough to believe it really stopped the disgusting VUMC practice. When something that makes $ millions of dollars for the Offenders, there are ways to open clinics across State lines.
Thus the need for FEDERAL LEGISLATION to make Gender Affirming Care or any other term used to allow Medical Professionals to abuse children by screwing up their lives forever, rather than developing treatment programs for Gender Disphoria. All research indicates that once children go through puberty, they work through the “confusion”, which honestly could have been introduced to them through SICK EDUCATORS, who want to include the Pronoun crap & Porn literature in elementary schools. Some Governors even include Tampons in elementary school boys restrooms. That would definitely confuse young boys, dont you think? The Federal Law needs to address consequences for those teachers, counselors & school boards that support this type of indoctrination & immoral environment for children. Real Therapists call this GROOMING. It’s a form normalizing Pedophilia & other perverted sexual indoctrination to kids that should NOT be exposed to such ideas.
The Law must include stiff penalties aka Loss of medical license, teaching licenses, incerceration, & liability.
I would assume these inhumane practices are being introduced during the required college education courses as well. That must STOP as well.
This MEANS DEI MUST BE BANNED AS WELL. Our State Governments are accepting Federal Dollars through grants that require they include DEI as a part of the grant. State Legislatures can stop this as well. Sometimes our State Legislatures give up their own powers to the Federal Government. The Federal laws usually just include minimum standards in their Bills, in order to get them passed. It’s up to State Legislators to include enhancements that their Constituents want included as Consequences.
It takes POLITICAL WILL.
TRUMP has mention abolishing the Federal Dept of Education, allowing all tax money be delivered back to the States since the Federal govt does such a bad job. That would be a great first step.
An additional bonus would be the elimination of National Teacher Unions, which are just Democrat fundraisers.
I am against the Transgender modifications and movement completely. But this is not a Federal issue. We do not need it at the federal level as it is not constitutional. Leave to the States.