by RYAN BUTCHER

Despite years of negative news coverage relating to transgender rights and reformation of the Gender Recognition Act, a YouGov poll on behalf of PinkNews has found that most women are in favour of trans people self-identifying as a gender other than which they were assigned at birth.

This is despite the ferocious efforts of anti-trans activists and billionaire fiction writers trying to conflate the progress of trans rights with a threat to women’s rights.

A massive 57 per cent of women surveyed by YouGov for PinkNews agreed that trans people should be able to self-identify as their chosen gender, compared with 43 per cent of men from an overall sample of UK adults.

Only 21 per cent of women said they were against trans people self-identifying, compared with 33 per cent of men.

On the whole, 50 per cent of the UK population surveyed said they were in favour of trans people self-identifying, compared with just 27 per cent who said they opposed. Twenty-three per cent of respondents said they did not know how they felt about trans people being able to self-identify.

"Transgender and non-binary people know that we are who we say we are," explained PinkNews' gender and identity reporter Vic Parsons.

"Public support for self-identification doesn’t change this – but it is still somewhat of a relief, given the horrifying levels of anti-trans rhetoric in the media, to see that a clear majority of the public back us continuing to self-identify as who we are without the need for medical evidence of our transness." Read more via PinkNews