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New British Social Attitudes survey dropped, and oh look:
https://natcen.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-06/BSA%2041%20Five%20years%20of%20unprecedented%20challenges.pdf
> In 2019, over half of people (53%) thought that transgender people should be able to change the sex registered on their birth certificate if they wished to do so, while around one in five either disagreed with this proposition or indicated they were ambivalent towards it. Today, however, the balance of opinion looks markedly different. Just over one quarter (26%) agree that a transgender person should be able to change the sex on their birth certificate and a half (50%) now disagree. […]
> In 2021, attitudes towards the extent of efforts to safeguard the rights of transgender people were evenly split, with around a third believing that attempts to secure equal opportunities for transgender people had gone too far (33%) and a similar proportion stating that such endeavours had not gone far enough (32%) or had been pitched at about the right level (32%). The most recent data, however, indicate that the proportion who feel that equal rights for transgender people have not gone far enough has slipped to just over one in five (22%), while the number who believe that attempts to ensure equal opportunities for this group have gone too far has reached almost a half (47%).
> Taken together, these data suggest that the intense political debate regarding gender self-identification coincided with, and perhaps contributed to, substantial changes in attitudes towards transgender people. Notably, this development appears to contrast sharply with the more widespread movement of society in a more liberal direction (Clery, 2023). Should the discussion around gender self-identification be maintained into the lifetime of the next Parliament, the incoming administration may therefore be faced with an ongoing tension between an increasingly open and accepting society on the one hand and an apparent resistance to the advancement of transgender rights on the other.
https://natcen.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-06/BSA%2041%20Five%20years%20of%20unprecedented%20challenges.pdf
> In 2019, over half of people (53%) thought that transgender people should be able to change the sex registered on their birth certificate if they wished to do so, while around one in five either disagreed with this proposition or indicated they were ambivalent towards it. Today, however, the balance of opinion looks markedly different. Just over one quarter (26%) agree that a transgender person should be able to change the sex on their birth certificate and a half (50%) now disagree. […]
> In 2021, attitudes towards the extent of efforts to safeguard the rights of transgender people were evenly split, with around a third believing that attempts to secure equal opportunities for transgender people had gone too far (33%) and a similar proportion stating that such endeavours had not gone far enough (32%) or had been pitched at about the right level (32%). The most recent data, however, indicate that the proportion who feel that equal rights for transgender people have not gone far enough has slipped to just over one in five (22%), while the number who believe that attempts to ensure equal opportunities for this group have gone too far has reached almost a half (47%).
> Taken together, these data suggest that the intense political debate regarding gender self-identification coincided with, and perhaps contributed to, substantial changes in attitudes towards transgender people. Notably, this development appears to contrast sharply with the more widespread movement of society in a more liberal direction (Clery, 2023). Should the discussion around gender self-identification be maintained into the lifetime of the next Parliament, the incoming administration may therefore be faced with an ongoing tension between an increasingly open and accepting society on the one hand and an apparent resistance to the advancement of transgender rights on the other.