Republican and independent voters in a Fox News Digital focus group reacted positively to President Donald Trump’s executive actions targeting transgender ideology in America’s sports and other institutions.
The focus group of 156 voters across the political aisle watched a video clip of the president signing his executive order, “Keeping men out of women’s sports,” on Feb. 5.
Trump said, “Actions were taken today are the latest in a sweeping effort to reclaim our culture and our laws from the radical left crusade against biological reality.”
“On day one, I made it official, and I’m making it official policy of the United States government that there is, you know, two genders. We have two genders. What might they be? Man and woman, Right? Male and female. Male and female. Can’t think of too many others, but it’s pretty amazing,” he said.
President Donald Trump signs the No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order into law in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)
“I rescinded federal funds, too, and this is so important, to any program that promotes transgender ideology using taxpayer dollars. We’re not going to do it. We’re not going to do it. And last week I effectively banned the chemical castration and surgical mutilation of minor children.”
After Trump referred to two genders and his action to strip federal funding for transgender surgeries, Democratic voters’ approval remained steady, but Republican and independent voters’ approval steadily climbed, according to the Fox News Dial.
President of Maslansky + Partners Lee Carter, who conducted the focus group for Fox News Digital, remarked, “Even Democrats mostly agree!”
“For anyone who is hysterical and thinks this resonates because people are transphobic — that is not it at all,” she added.
