A poll conducted by The Bulwark and independent Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Pablo Torre shows that misperception. About 15 percent of Americans believe between 1 percent and 5 percent of athletes in the NCAA are transgender, meaning as many as 1 in 20 athletes. Another 14 percent of Americans think trans athletes make up between 6 percent and 25 percent of NCAA athletes, or as many as 1 in 4.
Combined, those respondents account for 29 percent of those surveyed, nearly matching the 31 percent who, correctly, believe fewer than 1 percent of student-athletes are trans.
They’re barely anywhere in general, and the problematic/delinquent ones even less so. But you gotta scapegoat if you wanna get away with murder/sociopathic greed/unfettered hedonism to the point of pedophilia, and the best way to do so is to know your audience and point fingers at whoever they already hate. The problem is less so the leader and more the already existing and widespread ignorance and hatred.