According to LGBTQ adults, a new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center found that transgender people in the United States have less social acceptance than lesbian, gay, or bisexual people.
According to “The Experiences of LGBTQ Americans Today” report released on Thursday, about six out of ten LGBTQ adult respondents in the poll said there is “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of social acceptance in the US for gay and lesbian people.
Only about one in ten people, including transgender people, said the same thing about non-binary people, and about half claimed there was “not much” or “no acceptance at all” for transgender people.
After Donald Trump’s election, the survey of 3,959 LGBTQ adults was conducted in January, just before he took office and began a number of policies that question transgender people’s existence and their place in society.
Trump rejected scientific and empirical claims that gender is a spectrum, in his first day in office by signing an executive order urging the government to recognize people as male or female based on the “biological truth” of their future cells at conception.
Since then, Trump has forbid transgender athletes from competing in female sports events, pushed transgender service members from serving in the military, and attempted to block federal funding for gender-affirming care for transgender people under the age of 19.
About half of US adults are in favor of Trump’s approach to transgender issues, according to a poll conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in May.
According to the Pew poll, transgender people are less likely than gay or lesbian adults to say they are accepted by all of their families. Although the proportion of gay or lesbian people said they were accepted by their siblings and friends, the majority of LGBTQ people said they were.
Compared to roughly one-third of transgender people, about half of gay and lesbian people said their parents did. Compared to the three in ten who are gay or lesbian, only about one in ten reported feeling accepted by their extended family.
About two-thirds of LGBTQ adults said the landmark US Supreme Court ruling, which legalized same-sex unions on June 26, 2015, boosted same-sex couples’ acceptance “a lot more” or “somewhat more” than that.
Source: Aljazeera
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