"GC ppl are in a bit of an echo chamber"
Not necessarily.
Yougov published the results from one of its surveys on this two days ago. These are the first few paragraphs of a very long article
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51545-where-does-the-british-public-stand-on-transgender-rights-in-202425
Where does the British public stand on transgender rights in 2024/25?
[Edited out irrelevant stuff about the USA and Reform in the UK]
Now a new YouGov study, the fourth in a series reaching back to 2018, shows an increased scepticism towards transgender rights across the board – and particularly in the two and a half years since our previous wave of this study.
Notable in this most recent study – conducted in mid-December – is the growing resistance on transgender rights among those groups that are typically more permissive on the issue, like women and young people.
In fact, the only question on which women now take the permissive view on transgender rights is saying that people should be able to change their gender socially, although at 55% this still represents an eight point drop since the 2022 survey.
When it comes to whether or not people should be able to change their gender legally, there has been a crossover among women. While in 2022 women supported allowing people to change their gender legally by 44% to 32%, these figures have since shifted to 37% who continue to be in favour but 42% now opposed.
While 18-24 year olds remain the most permissive group when it comes to trans rights, there has likewise been an increase in scepticism.
In 2022, there had only been net negativity among the young on the three questions about providing transgender treatment to under-16s, as well as transgender women being able to participate in women’s sporting events. As of December 2024, this sentiment now extends to transgender men participating in men’s sports, as well as a reluctance to make it easier to change your gender legally, and resistance to the use of gendered changing rooms by transgender people who have not undergone gender reassignment surgery.
When it comes to the key questions of whether people should be able to socially identify as a different gender, the number of 18-24 year olds who say they should – 61% – remains almost exactly the same as in 2022. However, the number who say they should not has risen eight points to 25% over the same time period.
And when it comes to whether you should be allowed to legally change your gender, support among the young has actively diminished: while 50% still say so, this has fallen seven points since the prior study. At the same time, belief that you should not be allowed to change your gender legally has increased by a full 16 points, to 36%.
The results come at a time where transgender issues have been increasing in prominence. Our survey shows that 41% of Britons say they have paid “a lot” or “a fair amount” of attention to the issue in politics and the media, up from 35% at the time of the last study.
How many Britons think you should be able to change your gender?
On the core question of whether Britons believe someone should be able to socially identify as a different gender, the public still tend to say that they should, by 49% to 35% who say they should not. However, the former stance is down six points from 2022, while the latter stance is up ten points.
[The article continues with a lot more detail]