by Arianna Hooker
Americans’ moral acceptance of sex changes is at an all-time low in part due to plummeting support among Democrats, a new poll shows.
Democrats’ support for sex changes is down by 11% from the previous year, according to the recent polling by Gallup released Tuesday.
The poll found that 38% of Americans think changing one’s gender is morally acceptable while 57% think it is morally wrong. Only 5% of Republicans support changing one’s gender, compared with 60% of Democrats — amounting to a 55-point difference between Democrats and Republicans. Forty-two percent of independents said that changing one’s gender is acceptable.
The percentage of Americans who viewed sex changes as morally tolerable fell eight points in the past five years, according to Gallup’s polling. Forty-six percent of Americans found changing genders morally acceptable in 2021, the first time the pollster asked about the issue.
Democratic Texas senate nominee James Talarico said, “I oppose gender reassignment surgeries for minors,” in a podcast episode released Monday. This came after Talarico called such surgeries “life-saving health care” three years earlier.
“I love- I’m just going to say this because it’s on my mind- the trans children who showed up yesterday at the state Capitol to advocate for their humanity,” Talarico said during a podcast episode, in 2023.
In addition, support among Americans for the moral acceptance of same-sex marriage as well as gay and lesbian relationships is declining, according to Gallup’s research.
Sixty-two percent of Americans think gay and lesbian relations are morally acceptable according to the poll released Monday. Eighty-one percent of Democrats support gay and lesbian relationship while 35% of Republicans think they are morally acceptable.
Sixty-four percent of Americans believe that same sex marriages are morally acceptably, according to a Gallup survey released on June 3.
The poll released Monday was conducted by ReconMR for Gallup from May 1 to 17 on values and beliefs. The poll had a random sample of 1,001 adults and conducted telephone interviews in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The margin for sampling error is plus or minus four percentage points. Numbers are selected by using random digit-dial methods.
Since 2001, Gallup has asked Americans their views on various social issues and behaviors and whether they think they are morally acceptable or wrong.
According to UCLA’s Williams Institute report, 2.8 million Americans over 13 years old identify as transgender. The report noted 724,000 kids between the ages of 13 and 17 identify as transgender. This represents 26% of all Americans over 13 years old who say they are transgender.
The report said 3.3% of people between the ages of 13 and 17 identify as transgender.
Of the 2.1 million adults who identify as transgender, the report said 33% identify as transgender women and 34.2% as transgender men.
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Arianna Hooker is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation. Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network and contributed to this story.
