Poll shows why N.J. Dems are sweating transgender issues
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Poll shows why N.J. Dems are sweating transgender issues
By MATT FRIEDMAN08/23/2023 06:55 AM EDT
If you had any question about why Democratic legislative leaders look worried about school policies involving transgender kids, here’s your answer.
An overwhelming majority of New Jersey residents — 77 percent — favor requiring schools to tell parents if a student asks to be identified as a different gender. This comes as Attorney General Matt Platkin is suing three school districts — one of them in hotly contested Legislative District 11 — that instituted parental notification policies.
New Jerseyans’ attitudes toward gay rights shifted big time more than a decade ago. That didn’t apparently encompass transgender issues. In fact, according to the poll, a slight majority of New Jerseyans do not believe a person can be of a different gender than what they were born.
One of the few silver linings for trans rights supporters in this poll is that 40% of residents say they are open to changing their minds about their opinion on trans kids in school, and 15% are unsure.
An issue’s political popularity does not make one side right and the other side wrong. But it clearly indicates that, at least right now, this is a political liability for Democrats.
Read the full poll here.
This is another new poll from 7 days ago:
Even a majority of democrats want to know if their kids are changing genders and not telling the parents:
Majority Support Parental Notification for Gender Identity | Monmouth University Polling Institute
Most okay teaching gender identity in high school, but not elementary school
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