Wed Jun 29, 2022 – 9:30 pm EDT
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(LifeSiteNews) — According to a new poll by Pew Research Center published Tuesday, 60% of Americans believe that gender is determined by sex, a figure that has been on the rise since 2017.
Despite the increased presence of transgender ideology in mainstream popular culture, fewer Americans believe one’s gender can be different than their biological sex when compared with data from 2021 and 2017, according to the poll.
“Sixty percent say a person’s gender is determined by their sex assigned at birth, up from 56% in 2021 and 54% in 2017,” Pew wrote in a breakdown of the recent polling data.
“The public is divided over the extent to which our society has accepted people who are transgender: 38% say society has gone too far in accepting them, while a roughly equal share (36%) say society hasn’t gone far enough,” the researchers added.
Looking further at the breakdown of the results, one’s belief regarding gender and sex seems to be highly correlated with age
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