Opposition to teaching in public schools that some people do not consider themselves to be a man or a woman or that some people are transgender increases by generation: 30% and 29%, respectively, of Gen Zers agree with these statements, along with 31% and 30% of millennials, 37% and 35% of Gen Xers, 40% and 38% of baby boomers, and 45% and 41% of members of the Silent Generation. [...] The majority of Americans who most trust conservative news outlets (62% and 59%) or Fox News (59% and 56%) say teaching that some people do not consider themselves to be a man or a woman or that some people are transgender is never appropriate in public schools, compared with 39% and 37% of those who don’t watch any TV news and 25% and 23% of those who watch mainstream news. [...] With the exception of white evangelical Protestants (42%), about half or more of the members of every religious group say it is appropriate to teach comprehensive sex education in middle school, including 46% of followers of other non-Christian religions, 47% of Latter-Day Saints, 48% of Hispanic Protestants, 49% of Hispanic Catholics, 51% of other Protestants of color, 53% of white Catholics, 56%. [...] Americans with lower education levels are more likely to agree that public schools interfere too much with parents’ rights than are those with more education: 62% of those with a high school diploma or less, 55% of those with some college education, 42% of those with a college degree, and 39% of those with a postgraduate degree agree with this idea. [...] There are no differences among parents and non-parents on the question of whether young peo- ple are being pressured into being transgender (both 43%) Agreement with this statement decreases with higher levels of education: 50% of those with a high school diploma or less, 45% of those with some college education, 36% of Americans with a bache- lor’s degree, and 33% of Americans with a post graduat.
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