A joint polling project by researchers at Arizona State University, Stanford University and the University of Houston has found that residents in “Blue California, Red Texas and Purple Arizona” oppose the trans rights movement’s demands.
The report finds an absolute majority of the public in Arizona and Texas, and a simple majority of the public in California, to be opposed to transgender people being allowed to:
• Choose which bathroom to use.
- Arizona (54% oppose, 27% support, & 19% are unsure).
- California (45% oppose, 35% support, & 20% are unsure).
- Texas (61% oppose, 25% support, & 14% are unsure).
• Participate in women’s sports.
- Arizona (63% oppose, 20% support, & 17% are unsure).
- California (53% oppose, 26% support, & 21% are unsure).
- Texas (68% oppose, 16% support, & 16% are unsure).
• Receive gender-affirming medical treatment while under the age of 18.
- Arizona (51% oppose, 30% support, & 19% are unsure)
- California (41% oppose, 35% support, & 24% are unsure)
- Texas (53% oppose, 32% support, & 15% are unsure).
Researchers found “Across the three states opposition is highest to transgender people participating in women’s sports and lowest to transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical treatment.
“The Arizonans I’ve heard from are very consistent when it comes to protecting kids from this dangerous agenda. That includes no surgeries, keeping men out of girl’s sports, and out of their locker rooms and showers. So I’m not surprised to see red states and blue states both agreeing with us,” said Arizona State Rep Michael Carbone.
“I vote to protect our kids for the same reasons that a lot of those people want to protect them. This agenda is truly radical and it targets minor-aged children in a predatory fashion that lawmakers have an obligation to stop. The fact that what we’re doing has support even in a place like California, tells you had badly the left has overreached.” said Arizona State Senator Ken Bennett.
Despite this lack of support for the trans agenda, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes have actively sought to kill legislation that reflects the views of the majority of Arizonans and protects Arizona kids.
In June, when Hobbs celebrated surpassing the total number of vetoes Governor Doug Ducey issued in 8 years, she did so by vetoing a bill intended to protect the privacy and safety of young girls in public school bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms.
At the time, Hobbs’ veto came as a surprise because the bill, SB1040, sponsored by Senator John Kavanagh, provided separate designated spaces for transgender students, especially males who identify as females.
In July, attorneys with America First Legal Foundation (AFL) filed a motion on behalf of Arizona Women of Action (AZWOA) to join Arizona’s legislative leaders, House Speaker Ben Toma and Senate President Warren Petersen, who filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit filed in April by two biological males: a pre-pubescent 11-year-old who wants to play girls’ soccer, basketball, and cross-country, and a 15-year-old volleyball player, who is on puberty-blockers and cross-sex hormones.
Toma and Petersen stepped up to defend the law when Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes refused to do so.
In 2022, S.B. 1165, the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” was passed to ensure young females are protected and provided with an even playing field in sports competition and athletic opportunities. On March 30, this bill was signed into law by Ducey.
The law requires “any athletic team that is sponsored by a public or private school to be designated based on the biological sex of the student participants. It allows injunctive relief, damages and any other relief available under law for students or schools that suffer any direct or indirect harm due to a violation.”
The survey was conducted between May 31 and June 6, 2023 among a representative sample of Arizona, California and Texas residents age 18 and older. In all, 3163 respondents were surveyed across the three states: Arizona (1,051), California (1,045), and Texas (1,067), with the margin of error for each state +/- 3.0%.
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