Majority of Americans Think Prejudice Against LGBTQ+ Community Is a Problem
500 anti-LGBTQ- bills, ranging from banning gender affirming care for minors, not allowing transgender athletes to compete professionally, or targeting drag acts are being considered by state legislators across the country and Congress this year alone.The Quinnipiac University poll was conducted between 1,929 U.S.
adults nationwide between June 8—12.More than a third (34 percent) believed that those in the LGBTQ+ community are facing more discrimination in the U.S.
than they were one year ago.Some 38 percent of Americans say prejudice against the LGBTQ+ community is either not a serious problem (20 percent) or not a problem at all (18 percent)."By large margins, Americans think prejudice against a segment of the population, those identifying as LGBTQ+, is serious.
Roughly one-third think it's metastasizing," Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement.When broken down further, the poll results show a stark contrast between Republican and Democratic voters who consider LGBTQ+ prejudice a major issue.When asked how bad the issue of LQBTQ+ prejudice is in the U.S., just over one in ten (11 percent) of Republicans said it is "very serious," compared to nearly two thirds (63 percent) of Democrats.The restricting of trans rights and other LQBTQ concerns looks to be a major hot-topic issue in the 2024 GOP presidential primary.During a recent campaign speech in North Carolina, Donald Trump vowed to remove federal funding from schools that teach "transgender insanity" and other "inappropriate racially, political, and sexual content" to children if elected president.Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is considered Trump's biggest challenger in the GOP primary, has also long targeted the "woke agenda" in.
