Large Swath of Americans Oppose Trans Athletes Transgressions
Former President Donald Trump’s position against allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports has drawn wide-scale support in the latest poll from Politico and Morning Consult.
The poll asked registered voters if they would support or oppose a ban on transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.
- 53% of all voters support a ban, 32% oppose.
- 59% of men support a ban, 29% oppose
- 46% of women support a ban, 34% oppose
- 74% of Republicans support a ban, 15% oppose
- 40% of Democrats support a ban, 42% oppose
- 49% of independents support a ban, 33% oppose
- 43% of Generation Z support a ban, 44% oppose
- 56% of Millennials support a ban, 28% oppose
- 50% of Baby Boomers support a ban, 32% oppose
Trump said in his address at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference that women’s sports will “die” if transgender athletes are allowed to compete.
"Joe Biden and the Democrats are even pushing policies that would destroy women sports," Trump said, apparently referring to the Equality Act that recently passed the House.
"A lot of new records are being broken in women's sports — hate to say that ladies — but got a lot of new records that are being shattered,” he added.
"Young girls and women are incensed that they are now being forced to compete against those who are biological males. It's not good for women. it's not good for women's sports which worked for so long and so hard to get to where they are."
"What coach, as an example, wants to recruit a young woman to compete if her record can easily be broken by somebody who was born a man?" Trump asked. "If this does not change, women's sports as we know it will die."
Other conservatives who have also criticized the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports include former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who accused Biden in an opinion piece last month of “paving the way for a federal mandate that all schools receiving federal funding let biological men play on women’s sports teams,” in the National Review.
“This is the wedge issue that will bring suburban women back to the polls and increase their support for Republicans, and Republicans would be foolish not to lean into it,” Penny Nance, the president of the conservative group Concerned Women for America, told Politico.
“I hear from mothers all the time who are getting up at the crack of dawn to take their daughters to swim practice or attending all-weekend track meets, and they do not want biological men competing on their daughters’ teams. They know that it would be detrimental to their daughters’ abilities to achieve scholarships and recognition,” she added.
