Support for the transgender agenda is cratering among its staunchest supporters in the Democratic Party, according to newly released polling data.

On Tuesday, Gallup released results from its latest survey of Americans’ views on a variety of moral ills, including abortion, birth control, sex outside of marriage, divorce, gambling, assisted suicide, and a host of other issues. The poll asked respondents if they personally believed that an issue is morally acceptable or morally wrong. Not surprisingly, answers diverged significantly among Republicans and Democrats. “For 14 of the 20 behaviors measured, significantly more Democrats than Republicans say each is morally acceptable,” Gallup noted. The largest gaps between the two groups were found on the issues of abortion and “changing one’s gender,” with Democrats being 55 percentage points more likely than Republicans in saying they are morally acceptable.

Despite the 60% support for gender transitions among Democrats, the number represents a stunning drop in approval when compared to Gallup data recorded last year on the same question, when Democrats registered 71% support. The 11-point plunge may be the latest sign that alarm over the public health fallout from the cultural and institutional campaign pushing those — especially minors — who are questioning their gender to undergo drastic hormone treatments and surgery is reaching across party lines.

Gallup’s poll numbers are just the latest signs that the cultural power of transgenderism (and the LGBT agenda in general) is rapidly losing its grip on American society after it reached its zenith during the early years of the Biden administration. As early as 2017, cracks in the transgender movement began to emerge after alarm grew over children experiencing rapid onset gender dysphoria and more and more young adults began to admit having regrets about undergoing gender transition procedures as they experienced adverse health events.

Still, the trans movement continued to gain momentum as more and more boys and men who identified as female began competing in girls’ and women’s sporting events and transgender influencers gained nationwide recognition. By 2022, Lia Thomas, a 6’1” biological male, was allowed to compete in the NCAA Women’s swimming championships, placing first in the 500-yard freestyle. The following year, transgender-identifying influencers like Dylan Mulvaney were being featured on Bud Light cans. The Biden administration implemented a series of policies to further prop up transgenderism, including pushing policies to force public school employees to recognize wrong-sex gender identities and challenging state-level bans on gender transition procedures for minors in court.

But the tide began to turn in 2024, when a landmark study known as the Cass Review was released by an independent committee in the U.K. that studied outcomes of minors who underwent gender transition procedures in the country’s clinics run by the National Health Service. It found that there was a lack of evidence of benefits from the procedures and also highlighted adverse health events, including permanently mutilated sexual organs, permanent sterility, and impairment of bone growth.

Powerful cultural voices amplifying the dangers of transgenderism also began to gain nationwide attention, including detransitioner Chloe Cole and women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines. A tidal wave of 27 states enacting varying policies protecting minors from undergoing gender transition procedures soon followed, and detransitioners are now filing successful medical malpractice lawsuits.

Experts like Matt Carpenter, director of FRC Action, say that the transgender movement overplayed their hand based on anemic evidence of benefits to gender transition procedures, causing an increasing number of voters in both parties to have serious concerns about the resulting health problems that became increasingly public.

“The Biden years might well have been the apex in support for gender ideology,” he told The Washington Stand. “During that time, it felt like some new policy or guidance was handed down every day to privilege gender identity in official government policy, and the private sector reciprocated with their own constant barrage of gender identity-affirming content and advertisements. Remember Dylan Mulvaney?”

“I think the incessant drive from the Left and corporations to normalize gender ideology was viewed as too much by the average American,” Carpenter added. “Then, on the other hand, you had state after state enact legislation to protect minors from gender transition procedures, and the public could see which side appealed to them with reason and common sense, and which side just tried to indoctrinate them and their children into an ideology. It’s no wonder — even among Democrats — we see the decline in support for ‘changing one’s gender.’ I suspect this trend will continue.”