Most Americans Don't Support Top Trans-Activist Goals, NYT Poll Finds

A Times opinion poll found that the majority of Democrats think women's sports should be restricted according to sex, not gender identity, and that minors shouldn't have access to transition drugs.

As Donald Trump prepares to re-assume the presidency on Monday, a New York Times/Ipsos poll finds that the majority of Americans, including most Democrats, are opposed to some of the key liberties that transgender activists have fought for in the face of advancing Republican opposition.

Compared with a 2023 Washington Post Poll, the new Times poll suggests that Americans have recently shifted dramatically toward opposing access to gender-transition treatments for minors under age 15 in particular and toward opposing allowing natal males who identify as female to participate in women’s sports.

The transgender movement has increasingly lost the battle on these two fronts. About half the states have banned minors’ access to gender-transition treatment and a bit more than half have imposed restrictions on sports participation according to sex rather than gender identity.

The breakdown of state bans of pediatric gender-transition treatment and surgeries and of sports participation according to gender identity

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted almost entirely along party lines, 218 to 206, to restrict participation …