{"id":1515642,"date":"2022-06-14T14:49:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T18:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515642"},"modified":"2022-06-14T14:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T18:49:36","slug":"poll-americans-say-no-to-transgender-athletes-in-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-americans-say-no-to-transgender-athletes-in-womens-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Americans Say \u2018No\u2019 to Transgender Athletes in Women\u2019s Sports"},"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\">20<\/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-americans-say-no-to-transgender-athletes-in-womens-sports%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=1515642&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>A new poll from the <em>Washington Post<\/em> reveals most Americans agree: Transgender athletes in women\u2019s sports should be sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-eight percent of respondents said transgender female athletes should be banned from professional competition. The same number agreed for college sports, and 55 percent and 49 percent of respondents supported a ban on transgender females in high school and youth sports, respectively. Nearly 70 percent said transgender girls would have a competitive advantage. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22059552-2022-05-17-post-umd-sports-trend-for-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a>, which was conducted in concert with the University of Maryland&#8217;s Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement and the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism, surveyed more than 1,500 people nationwide in May.<\/p>\n<p>Transgender participation in sports was thrust onto the national stage this year when Lia Thomas, formerly William Thomas, won the NCAA Women&#8217;s Division I Swimming and Diving Championships 500-yard freestyle event in March. Thomas\u2019s swim time smashed national women\u2019s records, and the athlete leaped from ranking 65th among collegiate men to first among collegiate women in the event.<\/p>\n<p>In the past two years, 18 states have passed laws to limit or ban transgender athletes from female interscholastic sports. Louisiana took the most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/LA\/text\/SB44\/2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislative action<\/a> last week, prohibiting biological males from participating in women&#8217;s sports.<\/p>\n<p>Identifying as transgender is becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2021\/07\/27\/rising-shares-of-u-s-adults-know-someone-who-is-transgender-or-goes-by-gender-neutral-pronouns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more common<\/a>, especially among <a href=\"https:\/\/williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu\/subpopulations\/transgender-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">young people<\/a>. More than 1 percent of people aged 13-17 identify as transgender. That figure is only half a percent for people over the age of 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll from the Washington Post reveals most Americans agree: Transgender athletes in women\u2019s sports should be sidelined. 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