A new polling shows that even in leftist California, the ideology that promotes allowing boys who say they are girls to compete on girls’ athletic teams is a losing cause.
“Most Californians support requiring transgender athletes to compete on teams matching the sex they were assigned at birth,” according to the polling.
“Solid majorities of adults (65%) and likely voters (64%) support requiring that transgender athletes compete on teams that match the sex they were assigned at birth, not the gender they identify with. An overwhelming majority of public school parents (71%) support such a requirement.”
That result is part of an assessment by Public Policy Institute of California.
According to a report from Fox News, “California Gov. Gavin Newsom admitted trans athletes competing in girls sports is ‘deeply unfair’ during an episode of his podcast last month but defended allowing it out of empathy for the transgender population.”
Officials in the state are trying to defy President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”
The California Interscholastic Federation confirmed it will follow “state law” letting boys in girls’ competitions if they say they are girls.
U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has warned Newsom to comply, after his state claimed to be a “sanctuary” for transgender minors.
“Allowing participation in sex-separated activities based on ‘gender identity’ places schools at risk of Title IX violations and loss of federal funding. As Governor, you have a duty to inform California school districts of this risk,” McMahon has warned.
“As Secretary of Education, I am officially asking you to inform this Department whether you will remind schools in California to comply with federal law by protecting sex-separated spaces and activities. I am also officially asking you to publicly assure parents that California teachers will not facilitate the fantasy of ‘gender transitions’ for their children.”
Another result found that only 45% of respondents think the state’s K-12 system is “generally going in the right direction today,” and half of Californians say the system is in need of “major changes.”
“Forty-five percent of Californians think that the state’s K–12 public education system is headed in the right direction,” said Mark Baldassare, of PPIC. “Half of adults believe that major changes are needed in the state’s K–12 system and that the quality of education in the state’s K–12 public schools has gotten worse in the past few years.”
The new statewide survey also found, “Around half of adults (49%) and likely voters (52%) say that the quality of education in the state’s K–12 public schools has gotten worse over the past few years, while 41% of public school parents say this. Ten percent of adults, 9 percent of likely voters, and 18 percent of public school parents say public schools have improved in the past few years.”
Only half of adults and 51% of likely voters approve of the way Gov. Gavin Newsom, a far-left activist who has promoted illegal aliens and other radical agendas, has managed the public education system.
“Similar shares approve of how the California Legislature (48% adults, 48% likely voters) and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Thurmond (47% adults, 47% likely voters) are handling K–12 education. More than half of public school parents approve of the way Newsom (58%), the state legislature (56%), and Thurmond (59%) are handling K–12 education.”
It also revealed 71% of adults oppose President Donald Trump’s plan to end the U.S. Department of Education and turn its responsibilities mostly over to state and local officials.
“This includes strong majorities across regions (80% San Francisco Bay Area, 72% Los Angeles, 70% Orange/San Diego, 66% Central Valley, 66% Inland Empire). Partisans are sharply divided, with Democrats (91%) and independents (72%) far more likely than Republicans (31%) to oppose closing the department,” the survey said.
Parents also have significant concerns about enforcing the nation’s laws against illegal immigration at schools.
“Asked how concerned they are about the impact of increased federal immigration enforcement efforts on undocumented students in local public schools and their families, solid majorities of adults (66%), likely voters (64%), and public school parents (74%) are very or somewhat concerned,” the survey said.
The findings are based on responses from 1,591 California adult residents. The sampling error is ±3.1 percent at the 95 percent confidence level for the total unweighted sample and ±3.6 percent for the 1,094 likely voters.