CV NEWS FEED // A new Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report shows that while a slight plurality of American women under 30 support allowing minor children to “choose” their “gender identity,” American men under 30 strongly oppose it.
The WSJ report reveals a vast political chasm between the youngest voters of opposite sexes as men between 18 and 29 are significantly more conservative than women of the same ages on virtually every hot-button issue.
According to the WSJ, men between the ages of 18 and 29 “oppose allowing children to choose gender identity without parental approval” by a whopping margin of 33 points.
While WSJ notes that “young women are divided” on the issue, they lean toward saying they support allowing children to “identifying” as “transgender” without their parents’ approval by a two-point margin.
As a result, young men are a stunning 35 points to the right of young women when it comes to so-called “transgender youth.”
Per WSJ, a similar trend is evident on a host of other political issues – both social and economic.
On climate change, the report found that young men are 35 points more conservative than young women. Also, young men are 37 points less pro-abortion than young women.
However, three issues were tied for having the largest discrepancy between men and women under 30: student loan “forgiveness,” tax cuts, and building a wall on the southern border.
WSJ recorded young men as being 43 points to the right of young women on each of these issues.
One reason why young women might be significantly more likely than young men to support leftist proposals for “forgiving” student loans is that young women are more likely to attend college than young men.
“Women now make up a record 60% of college students and carry 66% of all student-loan debt,” WSJ reported.
>> POLL: NEARLY 30% OF ADULT GEN-Z WOMEN SAY THEY’RE ‘LGBTQ’ <<
While young women in the country remain a reliably left-wing demographic, young men – whom now-President Joe Biden won by double digits four years ago – seem to be drifting into play for the right.
The Survey Center on American Life (“American Survey”) reported back in February that “Although young men still vote Democratic, they have undergone a pronounced party affiliation shift in recent years.”
“For much of the 21st century, young men have identified as much more Democratic than Republican,” American Survey continued:
The Democratic advantage topped out during the early part of the Obama era. As of 2023, close to half (48 percent) of young men identified as Republican or leaned towards the Republican Party. A decade earlier, only 38 percent of young men identified as such.
American Survey is a project of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
In March, CatholicVote reported that per a recent Gallup poll, 28.5% of Generation Z (“Gen Z”) adult women said they were “LGBTQ+.” In the same poll, only 10.6% of Gen Z adult men said they were “LGBTQ+.”
A large majority of current Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 are members of Gen Z, which is widely defined as including people born between the years 1997 and 2012.
