{"id":1412946,"date":"2022-03-31T13:15:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T17:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412946"},"modified":"2022-03-31T13:15:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T17:15:30","slug":"poll-voters-believe-transgender-athletes-should-play-on-teams-matching-birth-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-voters-believe-transgender-athletes-should-play-on-teams-matching-birth-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Voters Believe Transgender Athletes Should Play on Teams Matching Birth Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-voters-believe-transgender-athletes-should-play-on-teams-matching-birth-sex%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412946&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Americans believe, by a two-to-one margin, that transgender athletes should play on sports teams that match their birth sex, a new\u00a0<\/span><span>Public\u00a0Opinion\u00a0Strategies <a href=\"https:\/\/pos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/POS-National-Poll-Release-Memo.pdf\">poll<\/a> found.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Out of\u00a0<\/span><span>1000\u00a0registered\u00a0voters surveyed nationally on March 25-28, 60 percent say they believe transgender athletes should only be allowed to play on teams that match biological reality. The margin of error is\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00b1 3.53 percentage points.\u00a0<\/span><span>Broken down by political affiliation, Republicans agree that transgender athletes should only play on the team that aligns with their birth sex 85 percent to 7 percent, and independents agree 60 percent to 23 percent. Unsurprisingly, Democrats \u201caren\u2019t as sure,\u201d with 39 percent in agreement and 36 percent in opposition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The poll results come amid a rather contentious public debate \u2014 mostly between Republicans and far-left Democrats and activists \u2014 about what constitutes \u201cmale\u201d and \u201cfemale\u201d and whether men who identify as women have an advantage over actual women in athletics. The debate has been spurred on by real-life manifestations of leftist \u201cgender identity\u201d ideology, a prime example being male University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/03\/22\/florida-governor-ron-desantis-declares-emma-weyant-real-winner-trans-swimmer\/\">taken titles from actual women<\/a> because of his biological advantage.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>While Democrats have been willing to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/592920-democrats-look-to-shake-off-defund-the-police-as-crime-rises\/\">let go<\/a> of some other unpopular policy positions to save themselves at the polls, many in the party have not yet reconciled with the reality that voters largely reject the force-feeding of transgender ideology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2022\/03\/25\/transgender-sports-debate-is-impacting-2022-election\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>Many progressives have cheered as activists claimed sports is about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2022\/03\/17\/washpost-columnist-transgender-sports-is-a-progressive-weapon\/\"><span>personal liberation<\/span><\/a><span>, not fairness: portrayed opposition to cross-sex athletes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/03\/21\/nbc-op-ed-compares-transgender-swimmer-lia-thomas-to-jackie-robinson\/\"><span>as akin to racism<\/span><\/a><span>, insisted that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/dont-say-gay\/\"><span>young children be trained<\/span><\/a><span> in transgender claims, declared their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/23\/first-woman-black-supreme-court-nominee-wont-define-woman\/\"><span>inability to define women,<\/span><\/a><span> and organized high-pressure <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/18\/los-angeles-schools-cult-retreat-like-gender-reeducation-targets-teachers-who-disagree\/\"><span>re-education campaigns on teachers<\/span><\/a><span> to embrace the ideology.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>In contrast, at least a dozen GOP-states so far have proposed or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/30\/arizona-gov-doug-ducey-signs-bills-protecting-womens-sports-unborn-babies\/\">passed<\/a> laws that ban men and boys who identify as women in girls from playing on women\u2019s sports teams in schools and colleges. Ultimately, t<\/span><span>he ability to define a basic objective truth is already impacting the 2022 midterm elections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Surveys and polls show that activists\u2019 push to coerce voters into not believing their own eyes is fueling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2021\/11\/08\/poll-shows-transgender-ideology-losing-support\/\">public support<\/a>\u00a0for a clear, biology-based definition of women.\u00a0<\/span><span>For example, Democrats have enjoyed a multi-decade trust advantage on education issues. But a March 23 poll showed that \u201cForty-three percent (43%) of voters trust Republicans more to deal with education issues while 36% trust Democrats more.\u201d The poll of 1,000 likely voters was conducted on March 17-20 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/march_2022\/education_voters_trust_gop_more\">Rasmussen Reports<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/author\/neil-munro\/\">Neil Munro<\/a> contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katherineeeeee2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans believe, by a two-to-one margin, that transgender athletes should play on sports teams that match their birth sex, a new\u00a0Public\u00a0Opinion\u00a0Strategies poll found.\u00a0 Out of\u00a01000\u00a0registered\u00a0voters surveyed nationally on March 25-28,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}