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CV NEWS FEED // Two-thirds of Americans oppose public health insurance programs covering “gender transition treatments” for people under the age of 19, and a similar amount say that gender is determined at birth, a recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found.
The May poll discovered that only 16% support allowing people under 19 years old to “transition” through publicly funded procedures, while 66% opposed it and 18% remained neutral. Only 23% approved of allowing people older than 19 to “transition” with public insurance, with 53% opposing it and 23% having no opinion. Sixty-eight percent said that a person’s sex “is determined by their biological characteristics at birth.”
According to AP News, Republicans almost unanimously said sex is determined at birth (89%), while only 44% of Democrats agreed. Independents fell in the middle, with 74% agreeing that biological characteristics at birth determine sex.
The poll also found that 52% of Americans approve of the way President Donald Trump is handling “transgender” issues. More Americans supported, rather than opposed, allowing “transgender”-identifying people to serve in the military (37% vs. 26%), according to the poll.
On every other “transgender” issue, more Americans supported protecting youth and parental rights. Forty-three percent supported requiring public school teachers to notify parents if their children begin identifying as “transgender” or “nonbinary” at school, with only 28% opposing it.
Forty-six percent supported banning “gender transition treatments” entirely for people under 19, with 32% opposing a ban. Fifty-five percent supported requiring students to use bathrooms that correspond with their true sex. Only 22% wanted students to be allowed to use bathrooms that match their “gender identity.”
Trump’s first few months in office have resulted in several orders dealing with “transgender” issues. One of his first orders, signed Jan. 20, affirmed the “biological reality of sex” to protect women and women’s spaces from gender ideology. He also banned “transgender” people from serving in the military, a policy that the Supreme Court upheld May 6, CatholicVote previously reported.
