Taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries remain a vulnerable issue for the Democratic Party that most voters oppose, according to a recent survey by the American Principles Project (APP) targeting likely midterm voters.
“We wanted to help educate Americans, but mostly legislators, about where Americans or how Americans feel about funding for gender identity programs, specifically in healthcare services, especially in light of Congress deliberating on spending and doing the reconciliation bills and all of that,” Terry Schilling, APP executive director, told Fox News Digital in an interview. “We want to make sure that they knew just how unpopular these programs are to fund by tax dollars.”
The survey, conducted in early April with 1,500 respondents, found that 43% of people who voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the last election are against using taxpayer money to fund gender transition procedures, including surgeries and hormone treatments.
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A new poll by the American Principles Project shows widespread voter opposition to taxpayer-funded gender surgeries. (Getty Images)
“That was a little bit higher than we typically see for Democrat voters,” Schilling said. APP is a socially conservative nonprofit advocacy group.
During the last few months of President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, his administration released high-budget ads targeting transgender women in women’s sports that may have helped move the needle with swing voters, with one ad famously proclaiming “Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you.”
The ad focused on Harris’ track record of ushering in sex change procedures for incarcerated people in California.
The survey found that nearly 66% of Americans don’t think the federal government should be funding gender transition procedures, including puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries. The survey did not…
