President Donald Trump targeted trans people in his first 100 days in power during his second term. He looked for restrict access to specific passports,, Erase the achievements of the old trans,, Remove transgender members of the military and purge the government of what he called “Awaken of gender ideology.” But a new 19th survey survey / survey shows that 49% of Americans think that politicians should not focus on transgender issues at all.
It is a climb before the elections, when 43% of Americans said they thought politicians should not focus on trans problems and protect trans rights or restrict the care affirmed by the sexes. In 2023The figure was 44%.
Democrats and the self -employed are less likely than they were in September to think that politicians should protect the rights of transgender, and 42% of Democrats think that politicians should not focus on trans questions – against 33% last year.
More Republicans also believe that politicians should not focus on Trans issues – 57% against 53% last year – and the number who think that legislators should focus on the restriction of transgender rights.
Overall, despite the Trump administration attempts to Erase trans people from public lifeThe majority of Americans (59%) support transgender adult law to access sexist affirmation care. However, fewer Americans, 43%, support the law of young people to request such care. This does not necessarily translate into a desire for prohibition. In fact, 55% opposed the laws which restrict the healing care for minors, including 41% of Republicans and 57% of the self -employed.
Sex -assertive care for trans people are health care Designed to support and assert their gender identityand generally differs according to age. For trans adults, care may include therapy, consultations with doctors, hormones or other drugs and surgery. For young people, affirmative care may include therapy, consultations with doctors, hormones or puberty blockers, other drugs and, rarely, surgery. The World Professional Transgender Health Association does not recommend gender surgeries affirming sex For anyone under 18.
The results come from a 19th News / SurveyMonkey survey conducted online from April 11 to 21, 2025, among 5,032 American adults. The results have an error margin of 1.5 percentage points.
The majority of Americans are not convinced that politicians are sufficiently informed of the held care for transgender minors to do a fair policy. But the number saying that they are sufficiently informed increased from 24% last year to 31% this year.
Women continue to be more likely than men to support access to care affirmed by the sexes for both adults (65% against 52%) and young people (46% against 38%). Although this survey has collected only binary gender data, a 19th news / SurveyMonkey survey from September showed generalized access to non -binary and transgender Americans.
The movement in favor of transgender rights is remarkable given the way in which the central rhetoric of Antri-Trans was in Trump’s campaign, which is now manifested in federal policy impacting Hundreds of thousands of lives.
Meanwhile, Democrats are divided on the opportunity to support their trans constituents. In the aftermath of the elections, certain Democrats in the Congress loudly critical their party to support trans people. And in the inaugural episode of his new podcast, the governor of California Gavin Newsom Interest reported To restrict the way athletes of trans women can participate in sporting events.
But others, like the governor of Illinois JB Pritzker, have vocally sentenced Trump’s anti-trans policies and refused to retreat.
This was notably seen a few months in the Trump administration, when the Democrats of the Senate made gather To block a bill that would have prevented transgender girls from playing in the sports teams of girls in schools funded by the federal government.
This 19th News survey | Surveymonkey was led online from 11 to 21 April 2025, among a national sample of 5,032 American adults 18+. Respondents were selected from more than two million people who take surveys on Surveymonkey every day. The results of this non -probability survey have an error estimate of more or less 1.5 percentage points. The data has been weighted for age, race, sex, education and geography using the US Census Office community survey to reflect the demographic composition of the United States aged 18 and over.