A growing share of Americans say acceptance of transgenderism has gone “too far” and a majority reject using the “gender-neutral” pronouns “they/them,” a new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll found.

Out of 1,019 people polled between March 1-13, 43 percent say American society has gone “too far accepting people who are transgender.” A third (33 percent) say society has not gone far enough, and 23 percent say society is “about right.” The margin of error was plus or minus 4.1 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level among all adults.

Republicans (75 percent) are far more likely to say society has gone too far in accepting transgenderism than Democrats (15 percent). Nearly half of independents (47 percent) agree with Republicans.

The share of Americans who say acceptance of transgender people has gone too far is higher than when NBC News separately polled on the topic in 2022. That poll found that 33 percent of Americans thought “we have gone too far in accepting transgender people,” compared to 26 percent in 2021, 33 percent in 2016, and 24 percent in 2015.

[It’s always risky to compare results from two different polling series to support a time-progression trend claim. The topline in the WSJ/NORC poll is 43/33/23, giving “too far” a narrow but still significant plurality over “not far enough,” though. And the question about athletic competition in this poll showing 56% want athletes to compete on the basis of biological sex rather than chosen identity is a good sign that transgender activism may not be succeeding any longer. It would still be helpful to get the longitudinal data from WSJ/NORC on these questions, assuming they’ve asked them in the past. — Ed]