((The hill) -Ung Fähr Two thirds of the Americans support guidelines that prevent transgender people from participating in sports teams that correspond to their gender identity, or to change their gender name in government documents such as passports and driver licenses A survey published by Gallup on Tuesday.
The support for each such prevention guideline varied depending on the political affiliation, but according to the survey of Republicans was led by Gallup on the basis of the answers to Gallup’s survey from May 1 to 18. It was the third year in which the respondents were asked for transgender people in sports, and in the first year they were asked for identity documents.
Forty percent of the democrats and 72 percent of the independent stated that according to the survey, trans-athletes are only allowed to play sports with their gender at birth, and 38 percent of the Democrats and 66 percent of the independent, transgender should not change their gender in official documents.
Fourteen percent of the democrats stated that they were not sure where they were in both problems. Around 90 percent of the Republicans surveyed stated that they support both guidelines.
The survey published in the Pride Month reflects the changed public opinion on two of President Trump’s political priorities in relation to transgender Americans. Trump signed on his first day in office An executive order Explains that the federal government only recognizes two genders, male and female, and that these genders are “not changeable and are based on fundamental and irrefutable reality”.
The order indicates the departments for state and Homelande security and the Office for Personnel Management in order to oblige state identification documents issued by state -based identification documents, including passports, visas and global entry cards, to reflect the gender of a person through their gender identity. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs previously allowed US pass holder for self-selection sex names, including a “non-specified” gender marker, which is marked with the letter x.
In April, a federal judge blocked the administration to enforce the novel politics against six trans- and non -binary Americans while they questioned them in court.
In Another executive order Trump signed in February, the United States proclaimed “male competitive participation in women’s sports” as a matter of “security, fairness, dignity and truth”. In the order entitled “Shirt men from women’s sports” says that it is a matter of resigning government policy to abolish federal funds from schools, “deprive women and girls from fair sporting opportunities”.
The administration pursued the topic aggressively, which is one of Trump’s best campaign promises. Since January, the educational department has opened up more than two dozen investigations in states, school districts and sports associations that say that they violate the federal laws of discrimination against the federal discrimination law by enables trans -athletes to take part in sporting events for girls and women.
The Ministry of Justice announced a civil lawsuit Against the Maine Ministry of Education in April, after the state repeatedly resisted the Trump government’s commands to ban the student athletes of the transgender students from girls’ sports. On Monday, California civil servants sued the Trump government “in anticipation of the right-wing legal retaliation measures” against the school systems of the state after a transgender 16-year-old was allowed to take part in the athletics-light athletics final of the California Girls’ High School Against Trump’s demands.
The support for transgender athletes has been in recent years. When Gallup asked the participants for the first time whether Transpers were allowed to compete with their gender identity for the first time in 2021, the support was 10 percentage points higher than in the survey on Tuesday.
According to Gallup, a huge part of this change was driven by Democrats and independent. The support of the Democrats fell from 55 percent in 2021 to 45 percent in 2025 and from 33 percent to 23 percent below the independent.
The views of the Americans about whether it is “morally acceptable” for a person to change their gender has also decreased since 2021 when Gallup asked the question and, according to the survey, rose by 6 percentage points to 40 percent on Tuesday. Divided by political affiliation, the opinion of the Republicans on this topic has changed the most and decreased by 13 points to 9 percent over four years.
With 64 percent, according to Gallup, the Americans consider “gays or lesbian relationships” to be morally acceptable. In a survey of May 29 published by the group, support for same -sex marriage among Republicans fell to a low of almost 30 years.
The participants in the survey on Tuesday were asked for the first time about the causes of transgender. Gallup has asked about the causes since 1977 to be gay or lesbian.
About 50 percent of the Americans said that external factors such as environment and upbringing had a greater impact on gender identity than biological factors, which, according to 30 percent, were behind the transgender of a person. Seven percent said both could be plausible factors, 4 percent said no significant influence and 9 percent had no opinion.
45 percent of the respondents stated that gays or lesbian people were born, and 38 percent stated that external influences determine sexual orientation.
Most Democrats with 57 percent believe that a person is born, while 76 percent of Republicans believe that they are transgender, the result of the education or the environment of a person. 74 percent of the democrats stated that people were born gay or lesbian, while 62 percent of Republicans said that external factors rather influence the sexual orientation of a person.
