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.
