July 25, 2022

• Pew does the polling and finds it is very dependent on religion.

The questions is why do people care so much?

The same pattern is apparent in views toward nonbinary people – that is, those who don’t identify as a man or a woman. For instance, most U.S. Christians – including 81% of White evangelicals, 67% of White Protestants who are not evangelical and 64% of Catholics – say government documents should not include options other than “male” and “female” for people who don’t identify as either.

Is it the tail wagging the dog when politicians use anti-Trans bills as a political wedge during campaigns?

For example, White evangelicals are a heavily Republican group, while religious “nones” are heavily Democratic; overall, Republicans are much more likely than Democrats to say that society has gone too far in accepting people who are transgender.

The real kicker is that most Americans do not even want to know how people identify and reject the asking of such a question. It seems "principle" of ignorance is unrelated to dogma in the US.

most U.S. Christians – including 81% of White evangelicals, 67% of White Protestants who are not evangelical and 64% of Catholics – say government documents should not include options other than “male” and “female” for people who don’t identify as either.

Accepting each other for who people are and who people want to be should not be this difficult. But, when your view of the world is distorted by dogma written at a single (nasty) point in history and suspicion is at the heart of institutional politics, it makes it difficult to talk about how to make things better.

The right-wing obviously know this. Does the left?

The purchasing manager's index, which measures those who buy the stuff that is used to make other things is declining. Low expectations for growth are across the sectors, but doing particularly poor in the "service" sector.

Racism vs sexism: it is a hard choice for Tories.