NYT poll finds majority of Democrats oppose transgender athletes in women's sports

A caller New York Times/Ipsos survey recovered the immense bulk of Americans, including a bulk of Democrats, don't deliberation transgender athletes should beryllium permitted to vie successful women's sports. 

"Thinking astir transgender pistillate athletes — meaning athletes who were antheral astatine commencement but who presently place arsenic pistillate — bash you deliberation they should oregon should not beryllium allowed to vie successful women’s sports?" the survey asked. 

Of the 2,128 radical who participated, 79% said biologic males who place arsenic women should not beryllium allowed to enactment successful women's sports. 

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Of the 1,025 radical who identified arsenic Democrats oregon leaning Democrat, 67% said transgender athletes should not beryllium allowed to vie with women. 

Among 1,022 Republicans, that fig was 94%. 

The 81 independents who were interviewed represented the radical with the astir reluctance to accidental transgender athletes shouldn't beryllium allowed to compete. Just 64% said they were against it, portion 26% refused to answer. Just 3% of the Democrats and 1% of the Republicans refused to answer.

The state saw a notable displacement successful consciousness and absorption to the contented of transgender athletes successful women's sports successful 2024, erstwhile a fig of stories sparked nationalist attraction and controversy. The contented became a cardinal run contented successful November's predetermination for President-elect Trump and different Republicans. 

A national exit poll conducted by the Concerned Women for America (CWA) legislative enactment committee recovered that 70% of mean voters saw the contented of "Donald Trump’s absorption to transgender boys and men playing girls' and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men utilizing girls' and women’s bathrooms" arsenic important to them. 

And 6% said it was the astir important contented of all, portion 44% said it was "very important."

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Nearly 70% of Americans accidental biologic men should not beryllium permitted to vie successful women's sports, according to a Gallup poll past year.

In June, a survey conducted by NORC astatine the University of Chicago asked respondents whether transgender athletes of some sexes should beryllium permitted to enactment successful sports leagues that correspond to their preferred sex individuality alternatively of their biologic sex. In that survey, 65% answered that it should ne'er oregon seldom beryllium allowed. When those polled were asked specifically astir big transgender pistillate athletes competing successful women’s sports, 69% opposed it.

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Transgender jock supporters clasp up signs extracurricular a Riverside Unified School District gathering Dec. 19, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

With Trump astir to instrumentality to bureau Monday, Republicans are pushing a measure that volition code the contented successful Congress. 

The Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act passed successful the House of Representatives Tuesday and adjacent had enactment from 2 Democrats. 

That measure volition beforehand to the Republican-controlled Senate, and, if it passes there, Trump volition get to motion it into instrumentality aboriginal successful his term. 

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