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Most Americans Agree: You Can’t Change Your Sex | Jonathan Butcher
How polarized are Americans really? Are we really on the “brink of civil war” as some suggest?
That’s what I wanted to find out when I sat down with Jonathan Butcher, author of the recently released book “The Polarization Myth: America’s Surprising Consensus on Race, Schools, and Sex.”
“When we hear the term polarization, it makes us think that there’s 50% on one side and 50% on the other side. But that’s not what’s going on,” says Butcher, who is acting director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy.
Butcher conducted a survey of more than 2,000 Americans and asked…
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