A recent Gallup Poll found that 69% of Americans do not believe that trans women, who were born biological males, should be allowed to compete in female sports, Fox News reports.

The poll also revealed that the number of Americans who hold this opinion is also increasing.

A similar poll conducted in 2021 revealed at that time only 62% of Americans believed that people should participate in sports competitions that matched their ‘birth gender.’

According to Gallup, people are increasingly looking upon this as fundamentally an issue of fairness.

Fox News writes:

“It appears that Americans view transgender sports participation more through a lens of competitive fairness than transgender civil rights,” Gallup stated in its press release. “Even Democrats, who mostly support LGBTQ+ rights and affirm the morality of gender change, are divided on the issue of whether transgender athletes should be allowed to participate on teams that match their gender identity rather than birth gender.”

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