WaPo Poll Affirms Most Americans Oppose Transgender Ideology – But Biden’s Trans HHS Official Says It’s a Losing Issue for the GOP

Many recent polls – even one now from the Washington Post – have found most Americans are against transgender drugs, surgeries, sports, and indoctrination in schools for children and teens, but a Biden administration top HHS official says Republicans will lose in 2024 if they take that stand.  

A recent Washington Post-KFF poll found 57 percent of Americans say a person’s gender is determined at birth and that it is not possible for a person to be a gender that differs from one’s biological sex.

A report of the findings, published Friday, shows the poll uses the language of the left in its questions to participants.

The survey, for example, avoids use of the phrase “biological sex,” asking, instead, about “sex assigned at birth.”

Nevertheless, 57 percent agree “whether someone is a man or woman is determined by the sex they were assigned at birth,” as opposed to 43 percent who answered “someone can be a man or a woman even if that is different from the sex they were assigned at birth.”

The same poll found 62 percent of Americans say biological men and boys should not be permitted to compete in women’s and girls’ sports, as opposed to 37 percent who say they should be allowed.

Additionally, 68 percent of Americans oppose giving puberty blockers to children of ages 10-14, while 58 percent oppose providing cross-sex hormones to teens of ages 15-17.

Finally, the WaPo poll found 77 percent of Americans say it is “inappropriate for teachers to discuss trans identity in public schools” with K-3 students, as opposed to 23 percent who say it is appropriate, and 70 percent say it is also inappropriate for children in grades 4 and 5, while 30 percent approve of such instruction.

For middle school students in grades 6-8, 52 percent still say transgender ideology instruction is inappropriate, with 48 percent approving.

For high schoolers, the poll found 36 percent say such teaching is inappropriate, while 64 percent approve of the instruction for those grade levels.

The poll of 1,338 adults has a margin of error of +/- 4 percentage points.

The survey was published the same day a 12-year-old boy who attends Middleborough Public Schools in Massachusetts was told – for the second time – to remove a shirt that states his view “There are only two genders.”

Liam Morrison was punished because he refused to remove his shirt that expressed his personal viewpoint. He instructed his school committee about his First Amendment rights on April 13.

Video courtesy of BlazeTV:

“I have been told that my shirt was targeting a protected class,” Liam told the school committee in a speech that went viral with over ten million views. “Who is this protected class? Are their feelings more important than my rights?”

Despite a demand letter from the Massachusetts Family Institute (MFI) that legal action would be taken if Liam was told to remove his shirt again, on Friday the school doubled down on its woke policy that MFI describes as “unconstitutional.”

https://twitter.com/MAFamilyInst/status/1654477258373967873

Many other polls have found that, despite a massive surge in transgender identification among children and teens, Americans overwhelmingly oppose transgender ideology.

In October 2022, a Trafalgar Group poll found 78.7 percent of 1,079 likely voters oppose puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries for minors, such as elective mastectomies and castrations. Only 21.3 percent say minors should be allowed to have these drugs and surgeries.

Factoring in political affiliation, the Trafalgar poll found 96.8 percent of Republicans say minors should wait until adulthood to have access to transgender drugs and surgeries, while 84.6 percent of Independents, and 53.2 percent of Democrats agree.

Also in October 2022, a survey conducted by McLaughlin & Associates and sponsored by the Colorado-based Summit Ministries, found 69 percent of voters who had an opinion on the issue say the increase in transgender identity among teens is due to the influence of social media and a shift in cultural factors.

Results of this poll found 75 percent of 858 respondents responded “yes” to the question, “Do you believe the transgender movement has gone too far by encouraging underage minors to use drugs and surgery to transition to the opposite sex?” while 24 percent responded “no.”

Despite the results of these polls – from different political perspectives –the Biden administration continues to promote a transgender medical industry, estimated to become a $5 billion cash cow by the end of this decade, and using the transgender lifestyle to attract military service members.

This week we found out the U.S. Navy asked one of its sailors who also performs as a drag queen to be a “digital ambassador” to help with the military branch’s plummeting recruitment numbers.

And in February, Biden top HHS official Dr. Rachel [born Richard] Levine addressed staff of the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) gender clinic.

Levine, who is transgender, applauded the work of providing children with transgender drugs and surgeries – called “gender-affirming care” – and promised such treatments would become more accepted because opposition to them was not a winning political issue.

“I think that the wheel will turn on this,” Levine told CCMC staff, adding:

I think that it’s not going to be politically advantageous. It wasn’t particularly in 2022. And so I think that as we look to all the different elections in 2024, I think the next two years are going to be challenging, but I am positive and optimistic and hopeful that the wheel will turn after that, and that this issue won’t be as politically and socially such a minefield.

Gender clinic staff have the support of the “highest levels of the federal government,” including Joe Biden, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, and the Department of Justice, Levine said.