More than a few dozen ? I already said (I think) that I can't find any polls but I found polls that accept transgender rights as a large minority or majority.
Yes? And defined how? I bet it wasn't defined as "trangender women with penises get to go into female shower rooms and get sent to female prisons and can beat up lesbians if they won't sleep with them."
Yes, the devil is in the details.
I think all of us support the idea that trans people should be allowed to dress as they wish, and live free from threat of violence, and not be fired from their jobs for being trans, and generally be treated with the same dignity as any other human being. The live and let live thing. I think those ideas would be supported by a majority in a poll.
I think most of us probably support them using the washroom of their chosen gender, and the pronouns, and so on. Probably still broadly supported.
But from there, I think things get a lot less clear. I'm skeptical that a broad portion of the public supports male-bodied individuals competing in women's sports. I'm skeptical that a broad portion of the public supports male-bodied individuals sharing the showers and locker rooms with women.
And I'm very doubtful that that the public supports male inmates deciding that they're women so that they can share cells with female inmates. Or relegating female art and writing to the dustbin of history if it doesn't support this new notion that talking about women's anatomic reality is "exclusive" and "hurtful" to trans people.
There might be some general level of support for trans people being allowed to live as they wish, but I don't think people should assume that this general sort of support means the public supports every radical idea that trans rights activists come up with.
-k