Source: Family First
MEDIA RELEASE – 3 September 2023
A new nationwide poll has found significant opposition to gender ideology overall, but especially in schools and in women’s sports. The poll has also found support for a ban on the use of ‘gender affirmation’ chemical & surgical treatment for under-18s.
SUPPORT FOR BAN ON ‘GENDER AFFIRMING’ TREATMENT FOR UNDER-18’s
A new poll has found that while there is disagreement as to whether gender & sexuality ideology should be taught or banned in primary schools, there is increasing opposition to gender ideology being taught to young children.
The poll has also found support for a ban on the use of ‘gender affirmation’ chemical & surgical treatment for under-18s, and growing support for sports to be based on biological sex, not gender identity.
In the poll of 1,000 New Zealanders commissioned by Family First and surveyed by Curia Market Research, respondents were asked a number of questions around gender ideology and the Relationship and Sexuality curriculum being taught in schools.
GENDER IDEOLOGY IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Only 1 in 10 (10%) think primary age children should be taught they can choose their gender and that it can be changed through hormone treatment and surgery if they want it to be, while three out of four (76%) say they shouldn’t. 14% are unsure or refused to respond.
Opposition to gender ideology in primary schools has grown significantly compared to a similar poll in 2018 where 54% said children should not be taught this, and 35% said they should. That means that support for ‘gender separate from sex’ ideology being taught to primary age children has dropped significantly from 1 in 3 (35%) to just 1 in 10 (10%) in less than five years.
BAN ON PUBERTY BLOCKERS & OTHER ‘GENDER AFFIRMATION’ TREATMENT
The respondents were also asked whether they would support or oppose a ban on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and physical sex-change surgeries for children under the age of 18 who identify as transgender.
54% support a ban on ‘gender affirmation’ treatment for under 18s (up from 51% in 2020) and just 27% disagree (similar to 28% in 2020). 19% were unsure.
Only Green voters were more opposed than supportive. Interestingly, 53% of the younger age group (18-40) were supportive of a ban with only 29% opposing.
SPORTS PARTICIPATION
In terms of sports participation, just 13% of respondents think boys who identify as girls should be allowed automatic access to girls sports teams (dropping significantly from 39% similar poll in 2018 and two in three (68%) disagree (rising significantly from 39% in 2018).
“This polling confirms that the majority of New Zealanders are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the gender ideology curriculum and agenda being rammed down in some schools. It fails to take into account the emotional and physical development of each child and more importantly the values of the families,” says Bob McCoskrie, CEO of Family First NZ.
“There is also considerable anger and disbelief that parents can be kept out of the loop on all of this, and that a child’s social transitioning may be facilitated by the school without parents being informed.”
Family First is calling on the Ministry of Health to ban gender affirmation treatment for under 18s, and to remove gender ideology from the RSE curriculum.
The nationwide poll was carried out at the end of August and has a margin of error of +/- 3.1%.
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