New Poll Shows Majority Of American Supporting Equality For Trans Community

[struggle4progress]

A study conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute finds that strong majorities of Americans across political and religious spectrums support rights and legal protections for the trans community ...

Overwhelming majorities of Americans agree that transgender people should have the same general rights and legal protections as others.

Approximately 9-in-10 (89%) Americans—including strong majorities of all religious and partisan groups—agree that transgender people deserve the same rights and protections as other Americans.

Approximately three-quarters of Americans both say Congress should pass employment nondiscrimination laws to protect transgender people, and favor Congress’s recent expansion of hate crimes legislation to protect transgender people ...

http://instinctmagazine.com/blogs/blog/new-poll-shows-majority-of-american-supporting-equality-for-trans-community?directory=100011



Survey | Strong Majorities of Americans Favor Rights and Legal Protections for Transgender People
http://publicreligion.org/research/2011/11/american-attitudes-towards-transgender-people/

[Zorra]

1. So, what's the holdup?

Will we need to have OWS force this into law like everything else the majority of the American people want?