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A liberal polling group is keeping quiet about the results of its survey that shows voters reject radical gender ideology, while privately hatching plans to 'educate' the public by 'rebranding puberty blockers.'

DailyMail.com gained access to an invite-only webinar of San Francisco-based Change Research, in which they unveiled new poll results that show Americans reject giving hormones and other trans drugs to children.

In the online session, lead pollster Betsy App called the results 'bad news,' saying the team would struggle to 'educate' the public about sex-reassignment for kids. She said it was time for 'rebranding puberty blockers' with a less-divisive term.

I want to give us all a reality check,' App told the online session.

'We are facing an uphill battle when it comes to voters' fundamental beliefs about the relationship between sex and gender.'

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At the start of Friday's 30-minute session, the group's marketing chief Molly McInerney said they would 'not be making these results widely available' and urged attendees not to 'share these findings.'

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They show that Americans say sex is assigned at birth, and that men and women cannot change their sex at will.

Voters also oppose giving children puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or sex-altering surgeries, such as breast removals.

The webinar indicated that Change Research wanted to conceal its results with the stated goal of reshaping US attitudes on gender ideology and trans treatments on kids.

For some, this fits into a bigger picture of how progressive activists reject the public's common sense and use coercive language rather than sound arguments to shift opinion.

Many trans activists and major US medical groups say gender-affirming care is life-saving for a suicide-prone group, but the affirmative model of greenlighting most trans procedures for kids is increasingly called into question.

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The results echo findings from other polls that most Americans say sex is immutable, and is not changed by how a person self-identifies. Some 94 percent of Republicans feel that way, while 74 percent of Democrats say people can change their sexual identity.

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Some 60 percent were against puberty blockers, 56 percent opposed cross-sex hormones, and 60 percent were against removing girls' breasts. Barely a third of respondents supported such interventions on kids.

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App, a Denver-based mom-of-three, including a 'gender creative first-grader,' said she was 'surprised by these findings' and the 'strong headwind' against doling out hormones to teens.

Winning the argument, she said, involved changing language. 'Gender affirming care,' she said, was a 'great term that we should continue using' because it resonated with the public.

Not so for puberty blockers, she added.

'One of the key next steps is rebranding puberty blockers,' said App.

'This is a term that's not doing us any favors.'

App said puberty blockers are reversible and can give trans kids a chance to buy time to make bigger decisions about their identity. Critics say they cause long-term harm and that users typically get locked in to a lifetime of medicalization.

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