Majority of Americans believe a person’s gender is determined by their birth sex

In a recently published survey conducted by Pew Research, it found that a majority of Americans, 60 percent, believe that a person’s gender is determined by the gender they were born as.

This statistic is up from 56 percent in 2021, and 54 percent in 2017.

In reference to a question asking what has influenced their views on whether a person’s gender can be different from their biological gender, 44 percent said that science has had a great deal or fair amount of influence on that decision. 28 percent said their religion played a factor, while 22 percent said personally knowing someone who is transgender had a role to play.

Americans were nearly evenly divided in regards to questions on whether society has gone too far or not far enough in accepting transgender people.