Poll: Majority of Democratic voters support banning child ‘transgender’ surgeries

CV NEWS FEED // A newly released poll found that over seven in ten Americans – including nearly six in ten Democrats – support laws preventing the subjection of minor children to “transgender” procedures.

The Napolitan News Service (“Napolitan”) Poll, conducted last week by renowned pollster Scott Rasmussen, asked respondents: “Should it be against the law to provide children under 18 with puberty blockers, drugs, and/or surgery to help them transition from one gender to another?”

Seventy-two percent replied “yes,” while only 18% said “no.” The remaining 10% indicated that they were “not sure.”

The Daily Signal’s Elizabeth Mitchell noted: “The 72% of Americans who oppose child gender transitions includes 86% of Republicans and 58% of Democrats.”

Furthermore, the percentage of respondents who favored making it illegal to chemically or surgically “transition” minors had risen by ten points in just three months. In mid-August, the last time Napolitan asked the same question, only 62% of respondents answered “yes,” and 24% answered “no.” 

Interestingly, the percentage breakdown of respondents who answered “yes” and “no” to the question seemed to have remained about the same for over a year. 

In June, 61% of respondents answered “yes” and 23% answered “no.” The previous June, 64% responded “yes” and 22% “no.”

Therefore, the drastic movement of voter sentiment against subjecting children to “transgender” procedures took off in August. 

This was notably also the same month Kamala Harris officially became the Democratic presidential nominee, bringing increased scrutiny of her record of consistently supporting such procedures – and funding them with taxpayer dollars.

Napolitan’s most recent poll also found that the percentage of Americans who believe men should not be allowed to partake in women’s sports competitions is also at the highest level it has been in the past few years.

Last week, 75% – three in four – of respondents said “biological males who identify as women” should not “be allowed to participate in women’s sports events,” compared to just 13% who said they should be allowed.

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When the same question was asked just over two weeks earlier, 71% said they should not be allowed compared to 16% who said they should be allowed. 

In February 2022, 64% of respondents said that men who consider themselves to be “transgender” should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports, while 21% said they should be allowed.

Napolitan’s polling makes it clear that a majority of Democrats do not support major tenets of the “transgender” movement. What it also reveals is that most of the party’s lawmakers do not agree with their own constituents.

Last year, HR 734, a House bill that would have reformed Title IX to protect female athletes from being forced to compete against males, was opposed by every single Democrat who voted.

One of these Democratic lawmakers was Rep. Seth Moulton, D-MA, who made headlines shortly after Harris’ decisive loss in the 2024 election when he publicly reversed his stance on women’s sports.

Two days after the election, Moulton told The New York Times: “I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”

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CatholicVote reported on November 11 that “Moulton’s comments to the Times led to the resignation of Moulton’s campaign manager, and LGBTQ activists called for the congressman himself to resign from office.”

CatholicVote continued:

Instead, Moulton doubled down on his remarks during a Sunday MSNBC interview, affirming that he will remain in office. 

“I was just speaking authentically as a dad about one of many issues where I think we’re just out of touch with the majority of voters,” the lawmaker told hostess Alex Witt. 

He indicated that he stands by his remarks to the Times, though “maybe I didn’t get all the words exactly right.”

Last week, The Boston Globe reported that the Democratic committee in Moulton’s hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is “pledging to find a challenger to run against him in the 2026 midterms.”

The Globe noted that Salem Democratic City Committee Chairwoman Liz Bradt endorsed the prospect of a pro-LGBTQ primary challenge to Moulton and indicated that “several” people are mulling entry into the race against the lawmaker.

“We will find someone to run against him and win,” Bradt vowed, as reported by the Globe.

Massachusetts’ 6th congressional district, which Moulton has represented since 2015, is heavily Democratic. Its Democratic primary is almost always tantamount to election. The seat was last held by a Republican in 1997.

Other elected Democrats have taken the opposite approach to Moulton’s on the issue of “transgenderism” following the party’s big loss at the polls earlier this month.

This weekend, Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker took to X (formerly Twitter) to double down on his commitment to legally protecting the subjection of minors to so-called “gender-affirming care” – despite his position being at odds with the majority of his party’s voters according Napolitan’s poll.

“This Transgender Awareness Week, I want you to know that I see you and have your back as governor,” Pritzker wrote on X Saturday. “Illinois has enshrined protections for gender-affirming care to meet this moment — and because of that, you will have a home here always.”