This must have been painful for CBS and the NY Times to publish, though they do give it a shot at some spin about Americans being divided. You know that if the numbers were reversed, they’d be crowing about how the majority supports letting the gender confused use the bathroom of their daily identity
CBS Poll: Americans Divided Over Transgender Bathroom Laws
Americans remain divided over the issue of whether transgender people should use the restroom of their birth gender, or of the gender they identify with.
According to a new CBS/New York Times poll, 46 percent of Americans said they believed transgender people should use the bathroom connected to their birth gender, with 41 percent saying they believed transgender people had the right to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as.
Obviously, liberals are overwhelmingly in support of the daily gender decision, but, even there, only 60% of Democrats and 71% of liberals support letting men who think they’re women on that day in the bathrooms, showers, and changing rooms with their wives, girlfriends, and daughters.
On the other side of the aisle, two-thirds of Republicans and 66 percent of conservatives said they believed that transgender people should use the bathroom associated with their birth gender.
On the flip side, the numbers aren’t as high for right leaners as one would have thought.
Independent voters were split on their view, with 49 percent believing transgender people should use the bathroom associated with their birth gender, and 38 saying they should be able to use the restroom they identify with.
49-38 is not a split, it is saying that a good majority are opposed to gender confused in the bathroom that doesn’t conform to their actual biology. It also means that Leftists are barking up the wrong tree if they think the majority of Americans are going to side with them on this issue.
From a Washington Times article on the poll we learn
Fifty-seven percent of respondents said the issue is best left to the states, in a rebuke to President Obama’s order on Friday compelling schools to regulate restrooms and locker rooms on the basis of gender identity or risk losing federal education funding. Only 35 percent of Americans believe the federal government should wade in on the issue.
And that’s the way it should be. Federalism in action, rather than Los Federales dictating everything for 300 million+ citizens in 50 States plus some territories and protectorates.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it would be better for the TG community to ease up on their in your face “you will be made to care” pushes, and instead work to woo people to their side. For the most part, people really won’t notice a man who honestly thinks he’s a women dressed and looking like a woman going into the ladies room to use the toilet (and visa versa for a woman TG, unless they want to use the urinal), nor will they care. It breaks down when they are in changing rooms and showers, especially in schools. And, more importantly, when people take advantage of the government dictates to cop a peak at people’s kids and such.
Yes. I can’t tell if this is real, genuine overreach by the treasonous Obama Administration, or if it is the old magician’s trick of keeping the mark fixated on/distracted by one hand (this argument) while they are doing something with the other (the treatment of our sailors by Iran, Islamic terrorism, etc).
I want to think we have finally reached peak SJW stupidity and people are waking up, but I have a bad feeling about that …
I do know people will feel a LOT differently when it is their daughter who has to allow a man to invade the women’s bathroom. This will not end well.
You keep using the term “gender confused.” Gender deluded would be more accurate, and, I s’pose, more polite than the really appropriate word, insane.
Actually, those slurred as insane, gender confused and gender deluded are not the confused ones.
It’s the ignorati of the right who are confused. Why the concern over what the person in the stall next to you has under her skirt? And if you ask any number of conservative congressmen they’ll let you know it’s already illegal to solicit sexual acts in a public bathroom.
By Obozo’s logic I can self “identify” as a lesbian black woman…so where are my affirmative action benefits, reparations, and all my free stuff???
Do you really think Black lesbians have it easier than you?
Jeff,
Yes, they have it easier. They get into any college, no matter their grades, get and position, even if not qualified.
-that little confused guy who exaggerates often
http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/ruth-bader-ginsburg-doesnt-want-to-pee-with-guys
dave,
Many cons actually believe that American Blacks have it “easier” than whites. It’s a right-wing myth based on lies used to justify discrimination.
6% of Harvard undergraduates are Black. If “they” can get into any college, no matter their grades, shouldn’t Harvard be filled with Blacks?? A Harvard degree is worth a few million in lifetime earnings.
But it is Harvard, afrer all, one of the world’s most prestigious colleges. BTW, Harvard’s first Black student graduated in 1870.
How about Louisiana State U, a far less prestigious state college, in the poorest state in the union, a state with 32% Black population? Last fall, only 12% of their undergrad students were Black!! Even though an LSU degree isn’t worth nearly as much as a Harvard degree, it is much more valuable than no degree. BTW, the first Black enrolled at LSU in 1956 under a court order.
Shouldn’t “unqualified” Blacks have displaced most white students by now?
And shouldn’t “unqualified” Blacks be running most companies by now? Executive level positions are the easiest, most hightly rewarding jobs around. CEOs, VPs, Deans, Dept Chairs are the cushy jobs with little responsibility and salaries starting in 6 figures.
We know, we know… your brother-in-law Jim Bob heard about a guy in Metairie who didn’t make captain but a Black guy did, and the Black guy scored 3 points LOWER on the captain’s test!!
We get it, dave. Over the past half-century your white skin has become less and less of a “qualification”. White skin is less of an advantage today than it was in 1950. And that irks you.
We have an unqualified black as POTUS, no position is unattainable…
Jeff,
A nice long post, that has nothing to do with the fact that blacks get advanced without proper qualification, note that not only whites suffer, but Indians and Asians do as well. I can’t understand why you hate whites so much, but then it is obvious that you hate most everything.
Tell me, did your white skin get you the NIH grants that you went to school on and the grants that started and continue to run your corporation?
Finally, the shoe shine boy is a perfect example of affirmative action, and it is hurting and destroying our country.
Scratch a conservative, reveal a racist.
Jeffery is a racist as well. His is just politically correct racism. Its okay to hate white people.
Its okay Jeffery we all embrace your hatred. The only one blinded by it is YOU.
The word you’re looking for is misanthrope.
Jeff,
I agree that LSU is not viewed to be as good as Harvard. But, I did not have the money to go to Harvard, I did not take taxpayer money to get my education, unlike you.
At the end of the day, do you know what Harvard graduate call me —– BOSS.