President Joe Biden has done more to promote transgender ideology than any president, ever. A scroll through the White House archives shows statement after statement, proclamation after proclamation, speech after speech, in which the president praises what he calls the “extraordinary courage and contributions” of transgender people.
Last year, the White House, as part of its observation of Transgender Day of Visibility, an event that included the White House Roundtable Affirming Transgender Kids, released a list of 42 actions and policy initiatives the Biden administration has undertaken to support transgender people. The list included Justice Department civil rights enforcement actions, “intervening legally when states violate the rights of transgender youth and their families,” signing a “historic executive order to advance equality for LGBTQI+ people,” expanding access to “gender-affirming care,” and much, much more. On that last subject, the Biden White House has gone all out even at a time when doctors in Europe have expressed growing concern about the lasting damage caused by the irreversible medical treatments known in some circles as “gender-affirming care.”
So there is no doubt that Biden has put the power of the presidency behind transgender ideology. And yet now there is new evidence that people are increasingly rejecting the fundamental tenet of transgenderism: that a man can become a woman and a woman can become a man.
The data are in a new poll by the Pew Research Center. For seven years now, Pew has been asking voters this question: “Which statement comes closer to your views, even if neither is exactly right? A) Whether someone is a man or a woman is determined by the sex they were assigned at birth, or B) Someone can be a man or a woman even if that is different from the sex they were assigned at birth.”
Put aside the use of the loaded term “assigned at birth,” which suggests a baby’s sex is an arbitrary assignment rather than a biological reality. When the question was asked in 2017, 54% of those surveyed said that whether someone is a man or a woman is determined at birth, while 44% said it can be different. In 2021, the number saying sex is determined at birth ticked upward to 56%. In 2022, it grew to 60%. And this year, 65% of those surveyed said whether someone is a man or a woman is determined at birth, while 33% said it can be different.
That is a serious change.