Last week pollsters at Gallup released a survey showing support for sex-change procedures and polygamy has fallen significantly among Democrats over the past year.
After the 2015 Obergefell ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, polygamist and transgender activists both began using the same arguments as same-sex marriage’s supporters, and for a long time it seemed like that strategy was reshaping public opinion in the U.S. However, new data from Gallup shows attitudes may be shifting — especially among Democrats.
Gallup’s annual “Moral Acceptability” survey measures Americans’ acceptance of various behaviors. The 2026 survey results show that among Democrats, support for changing a person’s gender is down 11 points and support for polygamy is down 10 points since last year.
Among Republicans, only 5% support sex-change procedures, and 7% say polygamy is morally acceptable.
Gallup has found for years that most Americans do not believe it is morally acceptable for a person to change genders, and recent survey data shows support for same-sex marriage and other LGBT issues is actually declining. These latest survey findings seem to be part of a larger shift in public opinion.
In recent years, corporate support for LGBT Pride has fizzled and Fortune 500 companies have abandoned the pro-LGBT Equality Index. Major companies from Walmart to Target and John Deere to Lowe’s have rolled back pro-LGBT and DEI policies in response to consumer backlash. And entertainment giants like Pixar and Disney have removed pro-LGBT elements from their storylines in response to moviegoers.
At the same time, we now know pro-LGBT activists and medical organizations spent years citing each other’s work in a circular pattern to manufacture a fake consensus about performing sex-change procedures on kids.
Whistleblowers have come forward testifying about how they were rushed through gender transitions as children without understanding the procedures’ risks, consequences, or alternatives, and public health experts and policymakers in the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, Finland, and other nations have found that science simply does not support these “gender transitions” for kids.
Gallup’s latest survey data may indicate that all of this is causing people to rethink their positions on same-sex marriage, sex-change procedures, and similar issues.
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