{"id":1645,"date":"2015-02-08T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2015-02-08T08:24:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:24:17","slug":"poll-50-percent-of-young-people-believe-in-gender-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1645","title":{"rendered":"Poll: 50 percent of young people believe in gender spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fusion?<\/em>magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Massive Millennial Poll&#8221; surveyed 1,000 18-34 year olds.?Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/politics\/transgender\/2015\/02\/05\/poll-half-young-people-dont-believe-gender-binary\">Advocate.com:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>50 percent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/fusiondotnet.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/fusion-poll-gender-spectrum.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">1,000 people<\/a>between the ages of 18 and 34 who were interviewed by telephone?agreed with the statement &#8220;Gender is a spectrum, and some people fall outside conventional categories.&#8221; Before answering, interviewees were informed, &#8220;Some countries, including India, recognize a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/world\/2014\/04\/15\/indian-supreme-court-recognizes-third-gender\" target=\"_blank\">third gender<\/a> that is neither male nor female,&#8221; and were also given the option of agreeing with other statements: &#8220;There are only two genders, male and female&#8221; (46 percent agreed) or &#8220;Don&#8217;t know&#8221; (4 percent).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People who saw gender as a spectrum were more likely to identify as female, be white or Latino, and come from the Northeastern part of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Fusion?magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Massive Millennial Poll&#8221; surveyed 1,000 18-34 year olds.?Via Advocate.com: 50 percent of the 1,000 peoplebetween the ages of 18 and 34 who were interviewed by telephone?agreed with the statement &#8220;Gender is a spectrum, and some people fall outside conventional categories.&#8221; Before answering, interviewees were informed, &#8220;Some countries, including India, recognize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}