"Catering to the lowest common denominator"

"The implication is usually negative: it suggests lowering quality, depth, or standards so that everyone can understand or accept it, rather than aiming for something more thoughtful, complex, or refined."

Trump and the conservative attack on us is gear toward his MAGA base, it is designed to get them mad and out to vote. But they are only a small fraction of the voters, what does the rest of the voters think?

New Survey Finds Strong Majorities of Americans – Including Nearly All Major Religious Groups – Support Nondiscrimination Protections for LGBTQ People

PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute)

March 19, 2026

A new national survey released today by PRRI profiles LGBTQ Americans and tracks Americans’ views on LGBTQ rights across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Based on interviews with more than 22,000 adults throughout 2025, this new data from the 2025 PRRI American Values Atlas measures public opinion on LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections, religiously based service refusals, and same-sex marriage. It also asks Americans if they agree that transgender Americans deserve the same rights and protections as other Americans.

The survey finds that strong majorities of Americans support nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ individuals (72%) and favor same-sex marriage (65%), although support for both measures has decreased slightly over the past three years (down from 80% and 69% in 2022, respectively). Roughly 6 in 10 Americans oppose allowing businesses to refuse service to LGBTQ people on religious grounds (59%, down from 65% in 2022).

Majorities of all major religious groups, except for Jehovah’s Witnesses, support nondiscrimination protections. Support ranges from 54% of white evangelical Protestants to 92% of Unitarian Universalists.

“Support for nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ Americans and same-sex marriage remains high, including among most people of faith,” said Melissa Deckman, Ph.D., CEO of PRRI. “At the same time, there have been slight declines in support for LGBTQ rights over the past few years, largely reflecting growing party polarization.”

Then why are the Republicans attacking us? Why do they want to criminalize us? Because for the voters it is not a make or break issue, while for the MAGA it is. And they know our Achilles heel is bathrooms.

While most Americans agree that transgender people deserve the same rights and protections as other Americans, the majority of Americans (56%) also favor laws that require transgender individuals to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth, with 40% opposing such laws.

“We see a disconnect among many Americans between broadly opposing discrimination against transgender Americans and growing support for bathroom bills,” said Deckman. “Yet this increase in support for bathroom bills nationally is largely a function of strong movement among Republicans, whose support has nearly doubled in the past decade, from 44% in 2016 to 81% today.”

Where we need to do work?

In the past integration in schools helped us, when we were learning along side other it brought acceptance but now... the Trump adminstration now stopped enforcing the discrimination laws against us.

Support among young Americans ages 18-29 for nondiscrimination protections has decreased from 80% in 2015 to 70% in 2025, largely driven by a 24-point drop among young Republicans during this time (74% v. 50%). Support among older groups of Americans has stayed at similar rates over the past decade (among Americans aged 30-49) or increased among Americans aged 50 or older.

We need to turn that around, we need the support of our cis-gender peers!

A negative trend. I am on a LGBTQ+ speaker bureau and I have noticed that their engagement have dropped almost to zero. There are no laws here in Connecticut like in Florida that bans speaking on LGBTQ+ issues... it is only fear of complaints and it becoming a rallying point for local conservatives.