LONDON / NEW YORK: Americans are very divided into transgender rights, data released on Tuesday shows, with experts accuse politicians to exploit clear differences along the party line to stun the problem in recent years.
Seven US Countries Republicans have banned transparent competitors from girls’ school sports since Democratic President Joe Biden expressed support for trans rights on the campaign trail – taking the position of his predecessor.
Donald Trump prohibits new Trans personnel from joining the US military in 2017.
In the possibility of significant signs of transgender people, the number of respondents who said they personally knew one trans up to 47% of the previous 2017 polls by the Research Center Pew, Washington DC-Tank-Based Tank.
But despite intense public debate in recent years, more than half of those surveyed said gender was determined solely by sex at birth, as opposed to transition – about four years ago.
“The lack of significant change in the attitude towards transgender people is not surprising considering the current federal and state policy environment,” Kerith Conron, Research Head at LGBT + Think-Tank The Williams Institute.
Pew surveys show extensive divisions along the party line.
While 81% of the Republicans said sex at birth determined whether someone was a man or woman, only 34% of the Democrats shared the view.
“Framing and sending messages by political elites has divided more people than they are divided, say, back in 2014 or 2015,” Don Haider-Markel, a professor of political science at Kansas University, telephone.
“We are in the reaction period,” he said, warning increased transphobia and anti-trans violence.
“It feels like this is the idea of ​​a trans person as a real threat and some people react to the threat with violence and it seems to increase.” At least 31 trans and “gender is not appropriate”, most of them trans black women have been killed so far this year, according to the Human Rights campaign (HRC), an advocacy group.
By 2020, 44 trans murder was reported.
At the same time, more Americans than those who identify as trans and non-binary – not men or women.
In 2016, 0.6% of adults and 0.7% from 13 to 17 years said that they were trans, according to the Williams Institute, compared with 0.3% of more than 18 in 2011.
A Gallup poll published early This year was found 1.8% “Generation Z”, was born after 1997, was identified as a trans, compared to 0.3% of people born before 1946.
Pew data Tuesday showed a similar trend.
Nearly half of Under-30 knows someone non-binary using “neutral gender” reports such as “them” and “they”, up from one third in 2017 and compared with 11% of more than 65.
The more celebrities have come out as non-binary, including singers for Lovato and Sam Smith.
Younger people are also more likely to know trans people and accept their identity rather than parents.
Sarah Cowan, a professor of sociology in New York University, said he was “not surprised” by generation differences.
“In the first wave (people who know trans people), you can imagine someone who comes out to coworkers only after working with them for six months …
While now, your coworkers come out for you on the first day because During the meeting they shared a pronoun.
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