This month, medical watchdog organization Do No Harm (DNH) launched a first-of-its-kind database revealing the medical facilities that are providing so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors. This encompasses irreversible sex reassignment surgery, as Townhall covered.
DNH revealed that over 5,000 children in the United States had undergone some form of gender transition surgery. This includes procedures like mastectomies.
A poll released this week found that most registered voters, 59 percent, support a federal ban on such procedures, and puberty blockers, for minors.
Republicans overwhelmingly support a federal ban on this type of care (82 percent) compared to Democrats (36 percent). Fifty-six percent of Independents support a ban like this.
Broken down, voters with children supported a ban more than those without, at 61 percent to 52 percent respectively (via The Center Square):
According to the poll, although both sexes favored a federal ban on transgender procedures for minors, men were more likely to favor it, with 63% in favor compared to 56% for women. Among the ethnicities polled, “others” favored a ban the most at 63% compared to 61% for Whites. Of Black registered voters polled, 46% favored a ban, while 32% were opposed and 22% were not sure.
Among age demographics, the categories most in favor of a federal ban were 45-54 and 54-65, both of which polled at 61%, while 18-34 were the least in favor, albeit still at a 52% majority of them still supporting banning the procedures for minors.
According to DNH, nearly 14,000 children in the United States underwent “sex-change interventions” of some kind between 2019 and 2023. The organization’s findings show that the total number of patients receiving sex-change surgeries was 5,747. The total number of minor patients receiving puberty blockers and hormone treatments was 8,579. The total amount of pediatric gender-related prescriptions written was 62,682.
“We thought it was really crucial that we develop and approach…to be able to inform people in their local hospitals and locales exactly what’s happening in this whole issue,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, said.
The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll was conducted by Noble Predictive Insights between Oct.2-4 and surveyed 2,560 registered voters. The margin of error was plus or minus 2.1 percentage points.
"On many issues surrounding trans rights and students or youth, the GOP has public opinion on their side. There’s a reason that, when you look at GOP ads, they are constantly hammering this and other related issues. And some prominent Democrats are pushing out moderate, rather than left, messages,” David Byler with Noble Predictive Insights, wrote in an email to the Center Square.
"Republicans know that trans issues are a strong social issue for them – and after getting hit hard on abortion so many times since Dobbs, they want to make sure they’re pushing back and finding social issues that work for them,” he added.