Opinion Today
June 7, 2024
Cultural Issues and the 2024 Election Pew Research Center The 2024 presidential campaign is taking place amid intense debates over such topics as immigration, growing racial and ethnic diversity in the United States, the changing American family, crime and reproductive issues. On most – but not all – of these topics, voters who support President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have starkly different opinions. Yet in many cases, Biden and Trump supporters are themselves sharply divided.
Slim Majority of U.S. Adults Still Say Changing Gender Is Morally Wrong Megan Brenan, Gallup A steady 51% of Americans think changing one’s gender is morally wrong, while 44% say it is morally acceptable, which is generally in line with readings in 2021 and 2023. At the same time, more than six in 10 U.S. adults oppose laws banning gender-affirming care for minors.
Gay and lesbian people experience greater acceptance today than in 1985 NORC at the University of Chicago This new survey conducted by NORC for the Los Angeles Times repeated questions from a survey conducted by the Los Angeles Times in December 1985 in order to measure how attitudes in the United States toward gay and lesbian people have changed over the last four decades.
Americans approve of LGBTQ+ people living as they wish, but their support drops for trans people, poll shows Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times [via Yahoo] Americans broadly support LGBTQ+ people living as they wish, with large majorities backing same-sex marriage, same-sex couples raising children and laws to protect queer people from job discrimination, according to a new nationwide poll for the Los Angeles Times.