Why Americans Are Getting More Conservative on the Trans Issue | Opinion
Politics of Gender, Pronouns, and Public Education," a new report released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), between 2021 and 2023, the percentage of Americans who said that there are only two possible genders increased by over 10 percentage points, from 59 percent of Americans to 65 percent of Americans.
Meanwhile, the percentage saying there are many gender identities fell to a low of 34 percent.The trend to the Right on gender was especially marked among minorities.
For Black Americans, the number of respondents who agree that male and female are the only possible options for us latter-day descendants of Lucy and/or Adam went from 65 to 70 percent, and for Latinos it rose from 56 to 66 percent.Even the majority of millennials and Gen Zers now accept the gender binary, as do vast majorities of almost every major religious group.
And two of the U.S.'s three major political blocs now express mass-majority support for the idea that there are only two possible human genders, with Republicans at 90 percent and Independents at 66 percent.
