The two major candidates vying to become America’s 47th president differ on many policies—but transgenderism represents one of the deepest divides between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
People who identify as transgender make up about 1.6 percent of the U.S. population, the Pew Research Center found in 2022.
Yet issues surrounding transgenderism have evoked robust responses among the wider population.
People have been debating whether men who identify as women should participate in women’s sports or use women’s locker rooms and bathrooms.
And, across the country, parents have objected to school systems fostering—and concealing—their children’s wishes to “switch” genders….