MOST AMERICANS SUPPORT PRO- LGBTQ POLICIES, BUT ARE MORE DIVIDED OVER TRANSGENDER

Americans who live in the South (41%) and the Midwest (43%) are notably less likely than Americans who live in the West and the Northeast (51% for both) to say they are comfortable knowing people in their communities are transgender. [...] 13 of 22 MOST AMERICANS SUPPORT PRO-LGBTQ POLICIES, BUT ARE MORE PRRI DIVIDED OVER TRANSGENDER SPORTS AND BATHROOM POLICIES Religiously unaffiliated Americans (73%) and Hispanic Catholics (64%) are the most likely to say they are comfortable with having a transgender child. [...] Majorities of Black Americans (65%), White Americans (60%), Hispanic Americans (56%), and multiracial Americans (56%), compared to four in ten Americans of other races (40%), believe that there are only two genders. [...] One percent of Americans report that they themselves are nonbinary, four percent of Americans have a close friend who is nonbinary, three percent have a family member who is nonbinary, 11% know someone else who is nonbinary, and three in four (76%) do not know anyone who is nonbinary.6 Altogether, 72% of Americans know someone in one or more of these categories, and 28% say they do not. [...] Those who know someone in one or more of the above categories are more likely to believe there are more than two genders, to be comfortable with transgender people in their communities, to support allowing transgender students to participate in high school sports with others of their gender identity, to oppose restrictive bathroom bills, to support nondiscrimination policies, and to oppose religio.