Researchers claim public opinion on transgender rights has sunk
In the last two years support for transgender people being allowed to change their sex on their birth certificate has substantially fallen.
A survey by the British Social Attitudes (BSA) shows 39% of people were opposed to the potential change, whereas those in support of the change has dropped from 53% to 32% in just two years.
The survey also showed that 33% feel transgender rights have gone too far, with 32% stating they have not gone far enough.
Researchers claimed that the survey revealed that public opinion swayed mostly towards socially liberal views in every category, except on the issue of transgender rights.
Sir John Curtice, senior research fellow at the National centre for Social Research, and who helped publish the survey told The Times:
“This is the one instance where, for the moment, attitudes have not moved in a more liberal direction.
The question of gender recognition has become an issue of much more media commentary in the last couple of years. The wider polling suggests people are pretty divided about whether or not you can allow people to do it on the basis of self-identification, as opposed to having to go through some process or other.”
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