Did It Really Take A Poll To Find This Out?

Pew Research did a poll on religion and gender identity and guess what they found?

Views of transgender issues divide along religious lines
By Gregory A. Smith
November 27, 2017

The American public is deeply divided along partisan lines over whether it is possible for someone to be a gender different from their sex at birth, a recent Pew Research Center poll found. A new analysis of the survey finds that the public also is sharply divided along religious lines.

Most Christians in the United States (63%) say that whether someone is a man or a woman is determined by their sex at birth. Among religious “nones” – those who identify religiously as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” – about six-in-ten (62%) say they think a person’s gender is not necessarily determined by the sex they are assigned at birth.

Surprise, surprise some “Christians” hate us and think we don’t exsist.

Among Christians, white evangelical Protestants (84%) are most likely to say that gender is determined by sex at birth. Many black Protestants (59%) and white mainline Protestants (55%) also feel this way. Catholics are divided on the question, with 51% saying gender is a function of one’s birth sex, while 46% say it is possible for someone to be of a gender different from their sex at birth.

Now the big surprise was that Catholics are divided despite what the Pope says.

In another question about our rights…

Religious differences also extend to questions about societal acceptance of transgender people. Most white evangelical Protestants (61%) say society has “gone too far” when it comes to accepting people who are transgender. And Pew Research Center polling conducted in the summer of 2016 found that seven-in-ten white evangelical Protestants think that transgender people should be required to use the public restrooms that correspond with their birth gender.

By comparison, other Christian groups are more evenly divided on these questions. And most religious “nones” (57%) say society has “not gone far enough” when it comes to accepting people who are transgender, and that transgender individuals should be allowed to use public restrooms corresponding to their current gender identity (70%).

U.S. News and World Report said in an article that,

But unlike the global projections, the U.S. has seen, and will continue to see, a rise of the "religious none." A larger portion of the nation's population describes themselves as religiously unaffiliated, jumping up 7 percent from 2007 to 2014. And unlike other countries, religiously unaffiliated people in the U.S. tend to be younger than those who belong to a religious group.
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Many of the nation's "religious nones" live in New England. Only one in three Massachusetts and New Hampshire residents put themselves in the "highly religious" category and about one in three say they are religiously unaffiliated.

Less than one in six Massachusetts residents say they are Christian, but the state has a larger portion of non-Christian faiths, including a 3 percent Jewish and 1 percent Muslim population.

I believe education has a lot to do with religious beliefs, you start thinking for yourself and not listening to someone telling you how to think. A caveat, many religions do have free thinkers but they tend to be in the more liberal religions like Unitarian-Universalism, United Church of Christ, and Episcopalians.