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A New Poll Shows If Americans Think It’s Acceptable to Change Your Gender

Madeline Leesman
Madeline Leesman  |  June 10, 2024 4:00 PM

Last week, Townhall covered how a poll published by the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the LA Times found that nearly half of Americans believe that young people are being influenced by culture to identify as LGBTQ+.

Forty-eight percent of U.S. adults overall agreed with, “Those aged 18 to 29 are influenced by current popular culture to identify with an LGBTQ+ identity even if it’s not their true identity.”

Sixty-six percent of U.S. adults overall agreed with, “Those aged 18 to 29 are more likely to openly identify as LGBTQ+ because that is more accepted by society today.”

Studies in recent years have shown that more people are beginning to identify as “transgender,” specifically.

A new poll released by Gallup on Friday shows that 51 percent of Ameicans think that changing one’s gender is “morally wrong.” On the other hand, 44 percent say that it is morally acceptable. 

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Broken down by political party, 72 percent of Democrats think that changing your gender is acceptable. Only 11 percent of Republicans share this sentiment (via Gallup):

There are significant demographic differences in Americans' views of the morality of changing one’s gender. Majorities of political liberals (81%), Democrats (72%), those who do not identify with a religion (67%), those who do not attend religious services regularly (59%), young adults aged 18 to 29 (56%) and college graduates (53%) believe changing genders is morally acceptable. Less than half of their counterparts say the same.

While slightly less than half of women believe in the moral acceptability of changing genders, they are significantly more likely than men to think as much (48% vs. 39%, respectively).

A 2022 study conducted by researchers at UCLA’s Williams Institute claimed that 0.5 percent of all American adults, 1.3 million people, and about 300,000 youth 13 to 17 years old identify as transgender, which Townhall covered. Despite this, pro-transgender advocates claim time and time again that social contagion and gender ideology curriculum do not play a part in these numbers.