Originally published at National Catholic Register
According to the poll, about 90% of parents want schools to focus on core subjects such as math, reading, writing, science, and social studies.
The large majority of parents, including most Catholic parents, are against school policies that impose gender ideology by permitting biological males in girls’ spaces and hiding information about a child’s gender identity from his or her parents, according to a poll released this week.
A poll of 1,000 parents throughout the country, commissioned by the nonprofit group Parents Defending Education (PDE), found that more than three-fourths of parents across ideological and political lines oppose school policies that allow biological males who identify as transgender girls to participate in girls’ sports teams or access female bathrooms and locker rooms.
Nearly three-fourths of Catholic parents surveyed also oppose biological males on girls’ sports teams and nearly 60% oppose biological males using girls’ locker rooms and bathrooms, which was slightly lower than the general population polled.
The poll found that about three-fourths of parents oppose school policies that encourage or require teachers, counselors, school nurses, and coaches to hide a child’s gender identity information from parents in certain circumstances if their child begins to identify as transgender. This
