Missouri poll finds ban on transgender care boosts support for outlawing abortion

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Source: Missouri Independent

Lawmakers put the abortion ban on the ballot in order to overturn a constitutional amendment narrowly passed in November 2024 that made abortion legal in the state.

The poll shows the proposal, which will be Amendment 3, is supported by a 47% to 40% margin.

Some provisions of the amendment, which would ban most abortions except in cases of rape, incest or to save a mother’s life, are very unpopular, the poll shows. Almost 60% of Missourians support allowing an abortion before the eighth week of pregnancy and 47% support it up to the 12th week.

But the section of the amendment banning transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or gender transition surgeries is overwhelmingly popular. The poll found that 67% of those surveyed oppose gender transition medications for minors and 73% opposed gender transition surgeries.

Read more: https://missouriindependent.com/2026/03/17/missouri-poll-finds-ban-on-transgender-care-boosts-support-for-outlawing-abortion/

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1. Of course it does because being an ignorant dick covers both issues.

And being a decent human being is not what Republicans support and so they push these made up
wedge issues in order to keep power. Treating trans people as just what they are and that is being
a human being and or letting a woman control her own body is the right thing to do. Doing the right
thing is always the right thing to do. And we should never back down from these mouth breathing
Jack Wagons of Christo Fascist Nasty Ass Stupid.

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2. If people hate trans people more than they love themselves

they out and out deserve to lose their rights. And under no circumstances should MO voters be given an option to reinstate only abortion rights.

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3. Everyone I know in Missouri supports both, transgender care and abortion.

Please do not paint everyone here with the same brush. Granted, I live in a large suburb of St. Louis, but not EVERY Missourian

feels this way. The Missouri Independent is not a newspaper that I know, either. Here we have the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Not saying there aren't idiots here, but more support abortion and transgender care than in the more rural areas.

Both St. Louis and Kansas City are more Democratic party than the rural areas.

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4. You have to wonder how many of the rabid anti trans people have ever met a trans person. And, if so, why they care.