CBS/NYT Poll: 41% Back Trans Restroom Rights

Politico recaps:

Americans are divided over whether transgender people should be allowed to use the public bathrooms of the gender with which they identify or the gender they were born as, according to the results of a CBS News/New York Times poll released Thursday.

Nearly half—46 percent—said transgender people should be required to use the bathroom corresponding with their birth gender, while 41 percent said they should be able to use the restroom bearing the gender with which they identify. The results are largely split along lines of party, ideology, region, and gender.

While 65 percent of Republicans said transgender people should use the bathroom of their gender at birth, 60 percent of Democrats said the opposite. And 49 percent of independents said transgender people should use the bathrooms corresponding with their birth identity, compared to 38 percent who said they should go to the facility with the gender with which they currently identify.

A CNN/ORC poll issued ten days ago showed that 75% support transgender rights in housing, employment, and public accommodations.