NJ voters revolt over gender policies as women’s safety takes center stage

⚖️ A new poll finds most New Jersey moderates support protecting women’s spaces like locker rooms and prisons.

🏃‍♀️ Over 60% of voters favor restricting women’s sports to biological females only.

🗳️ The issue could sway votes in the 2025 governor’s race between Mikie Sherrill and Jack Ciattarelli

(The Center Square) – Support of women and girls and protection of their spaces, such as locker rooms, prisons and rape-crisis shelters, is favored by likely 2025 voters in New Jersey describing themselves as moderate, a new poll says.

Two-thirds of those sampled said the issue is important to their vote overall, including 58% of women. For the governor’s race pitting fourth-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli, a past gubernatorial candidate and former member of the General Assembly, nearly 4 in 10 respondents said this was one of the top three issues.

Independent Women’s Voice conducted the survey with Wick Insights on May 24-28.

Margin of error and crosstabs were not released. Those surveyed identified as likely voters, moderate, somewhat conservative or somewhat liberal.

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Women’s safety and fairness driving New Jersey voter sentiment

This year’s election cycle will decide races for governor, state executive offices, the state House of Representatives, a special state legislative race, and local school boards and municipal government.

For fairness in women’s sports, respondents were less supportive (53.3%) of Sherrill upon learning she twice voted to allow males in female sports, the poll says. Nearly 74% were not even aware of the congressional votes.

The poll showed 62% support legislation limiting participation “in women’s sports to biological women and girls only.”

Majority of NJ moderates back protecting women’s sports

Roughly half of respondents (55%) were not aware “men inmates who identify as female are able to transfer into women’s prisons and are housed with female inmates.”

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It was concerning to 91% of all respondents and 92% of women that “biological men housed in women’s prisons has led to emotional and physical abuse of female inmates as well as pregnancies.”

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