Majority of Americans Against Laws That Ban LGBTQ Lessons in Class: Poll
ABC News/Ipsos, found that 62 percent of respondents oppose legislation that bans teaching about gender identity or sexual orientation to younger children, while just 37 percent support it.The poll found that attitudes toward such laws differed across party lines.
Sixty-two percent of Republican voters said they support such legislation, while only 20 percent of Democrats and 35 percent of independents agreed.
The survey also found that Americans over 65 are more likely to support such laws opposed to those who are younger and college educated.Survey responses were collected from March 11 through 12 using information from 622 U.S.
adults. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4.4 points.The poll was conducted just days after Florida's state legislature passed the controversial Parental Rights in Education law, which critics have labeled the "Don't Say Gay" bill.If signed into law by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, the bill would prohibit any classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation from kindergarten through third grade.
