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La encuesta sobre la opinión de los estadounidenses sobre los deportistas transexuales divide a los usuarios de Twitter : "Confirma lo que todos sabemos".
Por Nikolas Lanum
Publicado el 16 de junio de 2022
Twitter Los usuarios reaccionaron con ira y acuerdo a la vez después de que una encuesta del Washington Post revelara que la mayoría de los estadounidenses se oponen a que los atletas transexuales compitan en deportes femeninos.
A joint survey between The Washington Post and The University of Maryland found that 55% of Americans are opposed to allowing transgender women and girls to compete alongside or against biological females in high school sports. This number grew to 58% when asked about competition at the college level.
Only 30% of Americans believed transgender women and girls should be allowed to compete at any level in female sports.
Forty-nine percent are opposed to transgender girls competing with others at the youth level, while 33% responded that they should be allowed to compete. Another 17% had no opinion.
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The poll on the controversial subject provoked a strong reaction online.
"Better headline might be most Americans oppose men dominating women’s sports," Daily Signal news producer Douglas Blair tweeted.
"A Washington Post poll finds a clear majority of Americans do not want boys competing against girls in girls' high school and college sports. Concurrently, the Biden Administration is going to deny school lunch program money to schools that keep boys out of girls' sports," radio host Erick Erickson chimed in.
Erickson se refería probablemente a los comentarios de marzo de Biden, en los que dijo a los padres de niños transexuales que "afirmar la identidad de tu hijo es una de las cosas más poderosas que puedes hacer para mantenerlo a salvo". Su administración ha respaldado las operaciones de cambio de sexo a jóvenes transexuales como "prácticas sanitarias de afirmación de género".
Biden también indicó que su administración lucharía contra las leyes estatales que limitan la forma en que pueden competir los atletas transexuales, después de que la nadadora transexual de la Universidad de Pensilvania Lia Thomas atrajera la atención nacional en los campeonatos de la NCAA.
Several others also weighed in on the poll.
El presidente de EE.UU. Joe Biden habla en la Sala Roosevelt de la Casa Blanca en Washington, D.C., EE.UU., el miércoles 4 de mayo de 2022. (Fotógrafo: Ting Shen/Bloomberg vía Getty Images)
"WaPo/UMD poll confirms what we all know: Americans oppose forcing female athletes to compete against males in women’s sports. Period. Are you listening @NCAA and @SecCardona?," the Concerned Women for American legislative action committee tweeted.
But others were critical of the poll results, urging the majority of Americans to reconsider their position and doubling down on their commitment to promote the transgender community.
Sydney Bauer, a freelance journalist who has previously covered the Olympics, criticized the line of questioning presented in the poll, rather than its results. She added that trans participation in sports "needs to be normalized" and does not occur in a "vacuum."
Imari Jones, the founder and CEO of TransLash media, a company that publisheds the stories from the transgender community, was also similarly critical of the poll results.
El mes pasado, la NBC realizó una encuesta que reveló que un número cada vez mayor de estadounidenses opina que el país ha ido demasiado lejos en la aceptación de las identidades transgénero.
Thirty-three percent of Americans say society has gone too far in accepting transgender identities, while 35% say the country has not gone far enough to end discrimination against transgender people. Another 25% say that the country has reached a reasonable balance in how it deals with transgender people.
While more people indicated there is still more work to be done to end discrimination, the two percentage point lead represents a 10-point drop since NBC News last asked almost a year ago and is within the poll's 3.10% margin of error.
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Fox News' Michael Lee and Timothy H.J. Nerozzi contributed to this report.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/poll-americans-thoughts-transgender-athletes-divides-twitter-users-confirms-what-all-know