{"id":1518223,"date":"2022-06-16T07:49:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T11:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1518223"},"modified":"2022-06-16T07:50:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T11:50:21","slug":"majority-of-americans-oppose-trans-athletes-competing-in-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-of-americans-oppose-trans-athletes-competing-in-womens-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Americans Oppose Trans Athletes Competing 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=\"float:left\"><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%2Fmajority-of-americans-oppose-trans-athletes-competing-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=1518223&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--><p>A sizable majority of Americans believe that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete against biological females in athletic competitions, and even more, say that such athletes have a significant advantage over other competitors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22059552-2022-05-17-post-umd-sports-trend-for-release\">According to a poll conducted by the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em> and the University of Maryland<\/a>, 58% of respondents do not believe that transgender athletes should be able to participate in women\u2019s college or professional competitions, and 55% say they shouldn\u2019t be able to participate at the high school level. Only 28% and 30% approve respectively<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Though some transgender athletes have undergone surgery and taken cross-sex hormones for some time, they still went through puberty as a male. As a result, they have \u201cgreater muscle mass\u2026 bone density and testosterone levels, which can help boost athletic performance,\u201d according to the <em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Because of these considerable physiological advantages, seventeen states have already banned transgender athletes from competing in women\u2019s sports. Louisiana became the latest state to ban the practice when the Republican-led legislature passed a law banning it, which the Democrat governor refused to sign or veto.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent Pew Research Poll, just .6% of the population identifies as transgender. However, transgender athletes have made headlines in many women\u2019s sports lately, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/lia-thomas-teammate-blasts-penn-claims-womens-objections-were-silenced\/\">swimming<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/transgender-women-cyclists-kiss-after-taking-1st-and-2nd-while-3rd-place-biological-female-cares-for-baby\/\">cycling<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/nfls-first-transgender-cheerleader-joins-carolina-panthers-topcats-team\/\">cheerleading<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/wokes-blast-skateboarder-taylor-silverman-for-speaking-out-against-transgender-competitor\/\">skateboarding<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sizable majority of Americans believe that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete against biological females in athletic competitions, and even more, say that such athletes have a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1518223","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\/1518223","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518223\/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=1518223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}