May 18 (UPI) -- Americans remain evenly split on whether the nation needs new laws to protect LGBT individuals from discrimination and on the question of public bathroom policies for transgender people, a new poll shows.
Gallup's annual Values and Beliefs poll found about half of Americans, 51 percent, said there should be new civil rights laws passed to specifically outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity while 46 percent said those laws are not necessary.