In a Morning Consult survey conducted April 16-19, 40 percent of U.S. adults said they support allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports at the collegiate level, while 42 percent opposed their participation. Opinions about transgender participation in high school girls’ sports and professional women’s sports were virtually the same. Nearly 1 in 3 Americans, including 60 percent of Republicans, said they “strongly oppose” allowing transgender women to play sports against other women in college. Fifty-seven percent of Democrats said they support allowing transgender women to play women’s sports, compared to 35 percent of independents and 18 percent of Republicans. Republicans in more than 30 states have introduced transgender sports bills this year, framing them as efforts to preserve the fairness of women’s sports. Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee have already enacted their policies as law, and numerous other states are fast-tracking their own legislation.