AMAC Exclusive – By Seamus Brennan
An overwhelming 82 percent of likely voters—including the vast majority of Democrats—oppose a new Biden administration scheme to force school children to attend mandatory “counseling” without parental consent if they refuse to use the “preferred pronouns” of classmates identifying as transgender, according to a new scientific nationwide opinion poll conducted by the Trafalgar Group for AMAC.
The survey’s findings are among the most striking indications to date of the extreme unpopularity of Democrats’ efforts to force left-wing gender theories on children as young as kindergarten.
The inaugural AMAC Newsline poll sampled 1,078 likely voters from September 21-26, using the Trafalgar Group’s trademark methodologies that made the group among the most accurate pollsters in the 2016 and 2020 elections. The margin of error was 2.9 percent. Additional results will be released in the coming days.
The survey specifically asked voters if they “agree with the Biden Administration Education Department’s proposed policy requiring school children to attend mandatory counseling without parental consent if they refuse to use the preferred pronouns of their transgender classmates,” referring to a proposed policy recently outlined by the Biden administration as part of its effort to effectively rewrite Title IX.
Among the 82 percent of voters answering “No” were a staggering 93.2 percent of Hispanic voters and 73 percent of Black voters. For Democrat strategists who have continued to raise red flags about Black and Hispanic voters flocking toward the GOP, these results should underscore just how toxic the Biden administration’s hard-left approach is among the party’s traditional voting base.
In total, 68.6 percent of Democrat voters said they do not agree with the Biden administration’s proposal—signaling a gaping chasm between the far-left cultural agenda of administration officials and the typical Democrat voter.
Few signs could be more troubling for party operatives than the fact that nearly 7 in 10 of their own likely voters oppose a key pillar of the administration’s policy agenda—one that many vulnerable candidates in this fall’s midterm elections have openly embraced.
The proposal is also opposed by 83.3 percent of independents and 92.4 percent of Republicans.
“We hear every day that far-left indoctrination in schools is a top concern for seniors and AMAC members,” said AMAC Chief Executive Officer Rebecca Weber. “What this survey makes clear is that the parents’ rights movement has incredible potential to grow even bigger, and to unify voters of every age, in every community. The grassroots backlash we saw in Virginia last November may have been just the beginning.”
In addition to requiring counseling sessions conducted by left-wing activists for students who refuse to embrace extreme gender ideology, the Biden plan would force schools to allow biological males into girls’ locker rooms and restrooms (and vice versa) and would even require schools to allow biologically male students identifying as transgender to bunk with girls on overnight trips—all without informing parents. As recently reported in Vermont, female athletes are changing in one-stall bathrooms to avoid biological males harassing them in the girls’ locker rooms.
The AMAC Newsline poll question focused only on voters’ views on the mandatory counseling aspect of the Biden plan and did not include the mandatory training or education components, nor the plan for Title IX coordinators to act as investigator, judge, and jury (a clear due process violation) of any alleged violation under the new definition of sexual harassment, all again with no requirement to inform parents.
When broken down by age, only millennials aged 25-34 supported forced counseling in any sizable numbers. Even among this group, the Biden proposal was underwater, with 42.2 percent in favor and 57.8 percent opposed.
Every other age group rejected the gender-indoctrination plan overwhelmingly. In one of the survey’s most interesting findings, 92.7 percent of voters aged 18-24 disagree with the Biden proposal—the strongest opposition of any cohort. This result may suggest that the generation with the most personal experience of the left’s coercive and punitive gender indoctrination in schools is also the group most turned off by it—even more so than their parents.
Among voters aged 35-44 (a group capturing many parents of young children), 91.1 percent disagreed with the plan, along with 79.8 percent of the 45-64 age cohort, and 85.8 percent of voters 65 and older. Men and women reject the policy at approximately the same rate—with 80.3 percent of women and 83.6 percent of men answering “No.”
With only weeks to go before the midterm elections, the AMAC Newsline poll may be surfacing a powerful late-breaking campaign issue, and the next flashpoint between the radical left and the growing movement for parents’ rights.