Americans oppose bathroom laws limiting transgender rights: poll

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



Fri Mar 10, 2017 | 6:08am EST

By Letitia Stein

The majority of respondents to a new U.S. poll opposed laws barring transgender people from using bathrooms consistent with their gender identities and indicated growing acceptance for gay rights, a nonpartisan research group said on Friday.

Fifty-three percent of the Americans surveyed oppose laws requiring transgender people to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth, according to the national poll by the Public Religion Research Institute.

The survey showed that 39 percent of respondents favored such laws, and almost one in 10 of the 2,031 adults surveyed in February by telephone had no opinion. The issue of transgender bathroom rights has become the latest flashpoint in the long U.S. battle over lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.

Significant partisan divisions remain, the survey found. While 65 percent of Democrats and 57 percent of independents oppose laws limiting transgender bathroom rights, 59 percent of Republicans support the laws, according to the poll. Thirty-six percent of Republicans oppose them.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lgbt-poll-idUSKBN16H1A4?

[tenorly]

1. No wonder the FBI was in the tank for Trump.

[yorkie77]

2. They all want to pee next to Caitlyn Jenner

Go figure

[Initech]

3. So why do they keep proposing and passing them?

Fuck the church and the clergy, most Americans do not want what they want.