As you say Tim, "Stating your opinion is fine, but don’t pretend you’re in the majority."

One must always consider the source and the editorial bias of any 'poll data' or media source.  CNN and Huffington post are definitely left biased.  No opinion on the Charlotte observer but I would suspicion they fall into the category of selling copies.  However citing the results of a poll of 540 voters and applying the results to the entire population of over 9,944,000 people and pretending it is accurate is hardly a warm and fuzzy fact either.

The Williams study which used Gallup Survey data of 350,000 people to come up with it's transgender number of 0.3%.   For which I apologize that I misquoted as .03%.  The lgbt still remains as 3.5% according to them.

My opinion; if there were not perverts in society and government disrespecting others private lives and trying to force their chosen lifestyle as 'normal' then perhaps it would not matter.  Everyone could live naked and happy.