New Gallup Poll on Sports

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https://news.gallup.com/poll/507023/say-birth-gender-dictate-sports-participation.aspx

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A larger majority of Americans now (69%) than in 2021 (62%) say transgender athletes should only be allowed to compete on sports teams that conform with their birth gender. Likewise, fewer endorse transgender athletes being able to play on teams that match their current gender identity, 26%, down from 34%.

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The shift toward greater public opposition to transgender athletes competing on the basis of their current gender identity has occurred at the same time that more U.S. adults say they know a transgender person. Thirty-nine percent of Americans, up from 31% in 2021, say someone they know personally has told them they are transgender.

But both Americans who know and do not know a transgender individual have become less supportive of allowing transgender athletes to play on the team of their choice. Currently, 30% of those who know a transgender person favor allowing athletes to play on teams that match their current gender identity, down from 40% in 2021. Among those who do not know a transgender person, support is now 23%, down from 31%.

Even the polling firm is using "gender"... it's so tiring.

Why oh why do they keep using the word gender? It drives me up the wall.

It's that sunlight. The more the entitled mediocre male sportsmen take women's places in sport, the more citizens say no.

Sunlight. I salute William Lia Thomas for his services to women's rights.

It's been the opposite of a civil rights movement, it was imposed from the top and the more publicity they get the more people decide 'no'.

It's interesting and probably predictable that sports is peaking people who don't give a stuff about women's rights.

And US accounts always seem to conflate sex and gender, whichever side of the GC/TRA spectrum they are from. I wish they had the linguistic and conceptual clarity to distinguish between them.

Yes, bring on the sunlight

Yup. And he met his match in Riley Gaines 💪

I thought this was interesting as you sometimes see the rhetoric, "you probably don't even know a trans person".

And knowing a trans person, means you have a better opinion on whether they should be allowed in the women's changing rooms?

It may just mean you are biased in the "be kind" direction, without having properly thought about the consequences for other people.