A new poll from the Pew Research Center finds that most Americans oppose discrimination against transgender people but say gender is assigned at birth and athletes should compete on the teams of their biological sex.
Pew reported Tuesday in the poll that substantial numbers of U.S. adults also oppose policies favoring medical care for gender transitions and are “uneasy with the pace of change on trans issues.”
The survey found that 64% of adult respondents favored or strongly favored policies protecting trans people from discrimination in housing, jobs and public spaces.
But 60% said whether a person is a man or woman is determined by their “sex assigned at birth” — up from 56% last year and 54% in 2017.