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Harvard CAPS/HarrisLegal documents & IDsJul 6–8, 2025executive order declaring two sexes in federal forms and programs
Do you support or oppose each of these policies: Declaring that there are only two genders male and female in all government forms and programs
Base: Unweighted and weighted base 2,044.
Wording notes: item is one of a long battery of Trump executive actions rated in a single gridno 'not sure' option'genders' rather than 'sex', though the underlying executive order uses 'sex'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
Harvard CAPS/HarrisSportsJul 6–8, 2025 executive order barring trans women from girls' sports
Do you support or oppose each of these policies: Banning men who have undergone operations and hormones to become women from girls' sports
Base: Unweighted and weighted base 2,044.
Wording notes: describes trans women as 'men who have undergone operations and hormones to become women'restricted to 'girls' sports'assumes the athletes in question have had operations and hormones, which is not true of most school-age athletesno 'not sure' option
Response options as the pollster wrote them
VCU L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public AffairsSportsJun 19, 2025 – Jul 3, 2025athletes playing only on teams matching birth gender
Athletes should only play on teams that match their birth gender
Base: 809 adults; results reported for registered voters in Virginia
Wording notes: agree/disagree format subject to acquiescence biasuses 'birth gender'states only the restrictive propositiondoes not name transgender peopleno level of competition specified
Response options as the pollster wrote them
Echelon InsightsSportsJun 12–17, 2025paired-statement choice on whether trans athletes may play on teams matching gender identity
Paired-statement battery: respondents chose which of two statements they agreed with and how strongly.
1. Transgender athletes should be able to play on sports teams that match their current gender identity / 2. Transgender athletes should only be allowed to play on sports teams that match their birth gender
Strongly/somewhat agree with Option 2 (teams matching birth gender)
65%
Strongly agree with Option 2
54%
Strongly/somewhat agree with Option 1 (teams matching current gender identity)
27%
Strongly agree with Option 1
16%
Somewhat agree with Option 1
11%
Somewhat agree with Option 2
11%
Unsure
9%
- Sample
- 982 likely voters · ±3.8 percentage points
- Method
- online opt-in
- Where
- US national
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)
Full record
Wording notes: paired-statement forced choice with no middle option, so respondents who would restrict some levels of competition but not others must pick a side'birth gender' rather than 'birth sex' - contested, but symmetric with 'current gender identity'no age, sport or level of competition specifiedembedded in a long ideological paired-statement battery covering abortion, guns, immigration, hate speech and policing, which invites answering by ideological identity rather than by considering the specific case
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly agree with Option 1
- Somewhat agree with Option 1
- Somewhat agree with Option 2
- Strongly agree with Option 2
- Unsure
Harvard CAPS/HarrisLegal documents & IDsJun 11–12, 2025 executive order declaring two sexes in federal forms and programs
Do you support or oppose each of these policies: Declaring that there are only two genders male and female in all government forms and programs
Base: Topline header states 1,903 registered voters, which appears to be carried over in error from the May 2025 release; every table in the June 2025 topline shows an unweighted and weighted base of 2,097. The base of 2,097 is recorded here.
Wording notes: item is one of a long battery of Trump executive actions rated in a single gridno 'not sure' option'genders' rather than 'sex', though the underlying executive order uses 'sex'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
Harvard CAPS/HarrisSportsJun 11–12, 2025 executive order barring trans women from girls' sports
Do you support or oppose each of these policies: Banning men who have undergone operations and hormones to become women from girls' sports
Base: Topline header states 1,903 registered voters, which appears to be carried over in error from the May 2025 release; every table in the June 2025 topline shows an unweighted and weighted base of 2,097. The base of 2,097 is recorded here.
Wording notes: describes trans women as 'men who have undergone operations and hormones to become women'restricted to 'girls' sports'assumes the athletes in question have had operations and hormones, which is not true of most school-age athletesno 'not sure' option
Response options as the pollster wrote them
Harvard CAPS/HarrisOtherJun 11–12, 2025 federal spending on research about trans and LGBTQ+ populations
For each of these programs should they be left as is, should the rate of growth be reduced, or should they see significant cuts? Studies of transgender and LGBTQ+ populations
Base: Topline header states 1,903 registered voters, which appears to be carried over in error from the May 2025 release; every table in the June 2025 topline shows an unweighted and weighted base of 2,097. The base of 2,097 is recorded here.
Wording notes: framed inside a deficit-reduction battery, so every item is presented as a candidate for cutsno 'increase' option is offered, making the scale one-directionalno 'not sure' option
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Left as is
- Rate of growth should be reduced
- Should see significant cuts
NNNapolitan News Service (RMG Research)for Napolitan News Service Gold Circle MembersSportsJun 11–12, 2025
whether trans women should be allowed to compete in women's sports
Should biological males who identify as women be allowed to compete in women's sports events?
Wording notes: 'biological males who identify as women' is the restrictive-side term of art and the only descriptor offeredno counter-framing or competing consideration offeredyes/no rather than a scaled item, which suppresses intensity
Response options as the pollster wrote them
NNNapolitan News Service (RMG Research)for Napolitan News Service Gold Circle MembersBathrooms & facilitiesJun 11–12, 2025
whether trans women should be allowed to use women's locker rooms, showers and bathrooms
Should biological males who identify as women be allowed to use the women's locker rooms, showers, and bathrooms?
Wording notes: 'biological males who identify as women' used throughoutbundles locker rooms, showers and bathrooms into a single item, leading with the most intimate settingno counter-framing offered
Response options as the pollster wrote them
EMEPIC-MRAfor Michigan Library AssociationBooks & mediaJun 6–15, 2025
whether books discussing gender identity should be banned from public libraries
For each of the following types of books, please tell me if you think they should always be banned, sometimes banned, or never banned? Books that include [ROTATE Q.19 THROUGH Q.23]
Books with discussions about sex, gender identity or sexual orientation?
Base: 46 regional oversamples were also completed in addition to the 800 statewide sample, to allow regional analysis with a minimum of 40 completes from each region; regional subsample errors run from +/-6.2 to +/-11.9 points
Wording notes: bundles 'sex' with 'gender identity or sexual orientation' in one itemasked as the last item in a rotated battery whose other items are political ideas, slavery, race, and criticism of U.S. history
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Always banned
- Sometimes banned
- Never banned
- Undecided/Refused
EMEPIC-MRAfor Michigan Library AssociationBooks & mediaJun 6–15, 2025
age-appropriate access to books discussing gender identity versus removal from public libraries
The next statements are.. [ROTATE STATEMENTS] Books that contain sexual content or discuss issues like gender identity and sexual orientation should AND Books that contain sexual content or discuss issues like gender identity and sexual orientation are tools for understanding complex issues, and young people should have access to them, but at an age-appropriate level.
Which statement do you agree with the most [ROTATE STATEMENTS] The one saying books containing sexual content or discuss sexual identity should not be in local public libraries OR, The one that local public libraries can provide age-appropriate access to books containing sexual and sexual orientation content?
Local public libraries can provide age-appropriate access to books containing sexual and sexual orientation content
77%
Books that contain sexual content or discuss issues like gender identity should not be in local public libraries
21%
Undecided/Refused
2%
- Sample
- 800 registered voters · +/- 3.5%
- Method
- unknown
- Where
- US: Michigan
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)PDF, external
Full record
Base: 46 regional oversamples were also completed in addition to the 800 statewide sample, to allow regional analysis with a minimum of 40 completes from each region; regional subsample errors run from +/-6.2 to +/-11.9 points
Wording notes: the restrictive alternative is stated as a bare prohibition while the permissive alternative carries a justification ('tools for understanding complex issues')the read-out question text abbreviates 'gender identity and sexual orientation' to 'sexual identity', which is not the same construct as the statement it summarizes
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Books that contain sexual content or discuss issues like gender identity should not be in local public libraries
- Local public libraries can provide age-appropriate access to books containing sexual and sexual orientation content
- Undecided/Refused
KFKFFContact & populationJun 4–8, 2025
share of U.S. adults who describe themselves as trans or transgender
Asked in the demographic block, immediately after RGENDER ('(IF PHONE: Just to confirm,) Do you describe yourself as a man, a woman, or in some other way?') and before the LGBQ sexual-orientation item
Do you currently describe yourself as trans or transgender?
Base: 1,032 reached through the SSRS Opinion Panel (1,005 online, 27 by phone) and 289 through the prepaid cell phone RDD sample (152 by phone, 137 invited to web by SMS); 1,258 in English and 63 in Spanish; no cases removed by quality checks
Wording notes: two-step gender measure: current gender description asked first, trans status secondrounded to whole percentages, so the published value carries substantial rounding error at a base rate of 1-2 percentcombined with the LGBQ item into KFF's LGBT_Total / LGBTQ_TOT summary variable
Response options as the pollster wrote them
NORC (AmeriSpeak)for Movement Advancement ProjectPolitical salienceparaphrasedMay 29, 2025 – Jun 13, 2025major life decisions taken since November 2024 in response to LGBTQ-related politics or laws
Since November 2024, the majority (57%) of LGBTQ people - including 84% of transgender and nonbinary people - have made significant life decisions or taken steps in response to LGBTQ-related politics or laws. These include considering or actually moving to a different state; considering or actually finding a different job; attempting to update legal name or gender markers on identity documents; crossing state lines to receive medical care, and much more.
Made significant life decisions or took steps in response to LGBTQ-related politics or laws
57%
Considered moving to a different state
25%
Taken steps to be less visible as an LGBTQ person in their community
24%
Joined or started participating in LGBTQ community or recreational opportunities
21%
Joined or started participating in LGBTQ advocacy or activism
20%
Considered finding a different job or place of work
18%
Taken steps to be more visible as an LGBTQ person in their community
18%
Actually changed jobs or workplaces since November 2024
11%
Actually moved to a different state since November 2024
5%
- Sample
- 1,055 LGBTQ adults 18+, with a transgender and nonbinary subsample · not published in the brief
- Method
- probability panel
- Where
- US national
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)
Full record · 9 subgroup figures
Base: 1,055 LGBTQ adults including 111 transgender and nonbinary adults. A subgroup of n=255 LGBTQ respondents who had moved or considered moving is used for the relocation-factors question.
Wording notes: battery covers only actions taken in response to politics, with no counterfactual or comparison population
NORC (AmeriSpeak)for Movement Advancement ProjectSurveys of trans peopleparaphrasedMay 29, 2025 – Jun 13, 2025 negative experiences related to being LGBTQ since the November 2024 election
60% of LGBTQ people, including 82% of transgender and nonbinary people, report that they or an immediate family member have had at least one negative experience related to being LGBTQ since the November 2024 election... a majority of transgender and nonbinary respondents report that, since November 2024 alone, they or an immediate family member have been discriminated against or mistreated by another person due to being LGBTQ (56%), or have been harassed online about being LGBTQ (53%).
Base: 1,055 LGBTQ adults including 111 transgender and nonbinary adults. A subgroup of n=255 LGBTQ respondents who had moved or considered moving is used for the relocation-factors question.
Wording notes: combines the respondent and immediate family members into one referent, which raises the incidence relative to self-only items
NORC (AmeriSpeak)for Movement Advancement ProjectPolitical salienceparaphrasedMay 29, 2025 – Jun 13, 2025 whether federal, state and local politics negatively impacted overall well-being in 2025
transgender and nonbinary people are more likely (84%) than LGBTQ people in general (73%) to report that state politics specifically harmed their well-being... while transgender and LGBTQ respondents overall report similar rates of being generally negatively impacted by federal politics this year (88% and 86%, respectively), 48% of transgender respondents say they were negatively impacted 'a lot' compared to 37% of all LGBTQ respondents.
Federal politics negatively impacted well-being 'a lot'
37%
Federal politics negatively impacted well-being (net) 86%State politics negatively impacted well-being (net) 73%
- Sample
- 1,055 LGBTQ adults 18+, with a transgender and nonbinary subsample · not published in the brief
- Method
- probability panel
- Where
- US national
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)
Full record · 3 subgroup figures
Base: 1,055 LGBTQ adults including 111 transgender and nonbinary adults. A subgroup of n=255 LGBTQ respondents who had moved or considered moving is used for the relocation-factors question.
Wording notes: asks only about negative impact, offering no route to report a positive or null effect other than the bottom of the scale
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- A lot
- Some
- A little
- Not at all
DNDo No HarmYouth medical careMay 24, 2025 – Jun 2, 2025
support for Florida's ban on puberty blockers, hormones and surgery for under-18s
Florida has passed legislation that prohibits medical professionals from providing sex change interventions, such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery, to individuals under 18. To what extent do you support or oppose that law?
Base: 736 licensed Florida doctors; separate comparison sample of 600 Florida voters
Wording notes: uses 'sex change interventions', a term not used by the medical bodies that provide this carebundles puberty blockers, hormones and surgery into a single object of support
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly support
- Somewhat support
- Somewhat oppose
- Strongly oppose
AP-NORCSportsMay 15–19, 2025trans women/girls in professional women's sports
[GRID ITEMS RANDOMIZED]
Do you think transgender girls and women should or should not be allowed to participate in each of the following girls and women's sports? Professional sports
Should not
73%
Should
26%
Skipped/refused
1%
- Sample
- 1,122 adults · +/- 4.2 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level, including the design effect (6.1 pts Democrats, 6.4 pts Republicans, 9.9 pts independents)
- Method
- probability panel
- Where
- US national
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)PDF, external
Full record
Base: 1,033 completed via the web and 89 by telephone
Wording notes: no middle optionasks only about trans girls and women, not trans boys and men
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Should
- Should not
- DK
- SKIP/REF
AP-NORCSportsMay 15–19, 2025 trans women/girls in college women's sports
[GRID ITEMS RANDOMIZED]
Do you think transgender girls and women should or should not be allowed to participate in each of the following girls and women's sports? College sports
Should not
73%
Should
26%
Skipped/refused
1%
- Sample
- 1,122 adults · +/- 4.2 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level, including the design effect (6.1 pts Democrats, 6.4 pts Republicans, 9.9 pts independents)
- Method
- probability panel
- Where
- US national
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)PDF, external
Full record
Base: 1,033 completed via the web and 89 by telephone
Wording notes: no middle option
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Should
- Should not
- DK
- SKIP/REF
AP-NORCSportsMay 15–19, 2025 trans women/girls in high school girls' sports
[GRID ITEMS RANDOMIZED]
Do you think transgender girls and women should or should not be allowed to participate in each of the following girls and women's sports? High school sports
Should not
72%
Should
27%
Skipped/refused
1%
- Sample
- 1,122 adults · +/- 4.2 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level, including the design effect (6.1 pts Democrats, 6.4 pts Republicans, 9.9 pts independents)
- Method
- probability panel
- Where
- US national
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)PDF, external
Full record
Base: 1,033 completed via the web and 89 by telephone
Wording notes: no middle option
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Should
- Should not
- DK
- SKIP/REF
Harvard CAPS/HarrisLegal documents & IDsMay 14–15, 2025 executive order declaring two sexes in federal forms and programs
Do you support or oppose each of these policies: Declaring that there are only two genders male and female in all government forms and programs
Base: Unweighted and weighted base 1,903.
Wording notes: item is one of a long battery of Trump executive actions rated in a single gridno 'not sure' option'genders' rather than 'sex', though the underlying executive order uses 'sex'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
Harvard CAPS/HarrisSportsMay 14–15, 2025 executive order barring trans women from girls' sports
Do you support or oppose each of these policies: Banning men who have undergone operations and hormones to become women from girls' sports
Base: Unweighted and weighted base 1,903.
Wording notes: describes trans women as 'men who have undergone operations and hormones to become women'restricted to 'girls' sports'assumes the athletes in question have had operations and hormones, which is not true of most school-age athletesno 'not sure' option
Response options as the pollster wrote them
RNResearch New Zealandfor National Council of Women of New ZealandFeeling thermometersparaphrasedMay 12–23, 2025
comfort with trans men and trans women in everyday roles (work colleague, parent, and other situations)
Whether respondents were comfortable with trans men and trans women in various situations.
Comfortable with non-binary people (all situations, floor)
79%
Comfortable with trans people (highest situation asked)
70%
Comfortable with trans people (lowest situation asked)
61%
- Sample
- 1,250 adults · maximum margin of error of +/-2.9% at the 95% confidence level on the total weighted sample
- Method
- online opt-in
- Where
- New Zealand national
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)PDF, external
Full record
Base: New Zealanders aged 18 and over; Maori and Pacific peoples were deliberately over-sampled and the results weighted to correct for it
Wording notes: asked as part of a longer battery covering gay men, lesbians, bisexual people, non-binary people, trans men and trans womenper-situation figures published only as graphics
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Comfortable
- Not comfortable
RNResearch New Zealandfor National Council of Women of New ZealandSchool policyparaphrasedMay 12–23, 2025
school year at which teaching about gender diversity should be introduced
Opinion relating to when teaching about gender diversity should be introduced in schools.
Years 7-8 (Aged 11-12)
22%
Years 9-11 (Aged 13-15)
22%
There should be no such information included in any years
21%
Years 12-13 (Aged 16-17)
14%
Years 0-6 (Aged 5-10)
13%
Don't know
8%
- Sample
- 1,250 adults · maximum margin of error of +/-2.9% at the 95% confidence level on the total weighted sample
- Method
- online opt-in
- Where
- New Zealand national
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)PDF, external
Full record · 4 subgroup figures
Base: New Zealanders aged 18 and over; Maori and Pacific peoples were deliberately over-sampled and the results weighted to correct for it
Wording notes: offers an explicit 'no such information in any years' option, which is the restrictive response
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Years 0-6 (Aged 5-10)
- Years 7-8 (Aged 11-12)
- Years 9-11 (Aged 13-15)
- Years 12-13 (Aged 16-17)
- There should be no such information included in any years
- Don't know
Siena College Research InstituteSportsMay 12–15, 2025statewide mandate vs. local control on transgender girls in girls' school sports
Which of the following views comes closest to your position regarding transgender girls and sports in schools:
All school districts should prohibit transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams
46%
All school districts should decide themselves whether or not to prohibit transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams
23%
All school districts should be required to allow transgender girls to play on girls sports teams
22%
Don't know/Refused
8%
- Sample
- 805 registered voters · +/- 4.3 percentage points, including design effects resulting from weighting
- Method
- mixed-mode probability
- Where
- US: New York
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)
Full record · 32 subgroup figures
Wording notes: offers an explicit local-control middle optionrestrictive option listed first in the crosstab ordering
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- All school districts should prohibit transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams
- All school districts should decide themselves whether or not to prohibit transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams
- All school districts should be required to allow transgender girls to play on girls sports teams
- Don't know/Refused
YouGovfor Sex MattersBathrooms & facilitiesMay 8–9, 2025which toilet facilities transgender women should use (four-option version)
In the following questions a transgender woman is someone who was biologically male at birth, but now identifies as a woman. A transgender man is someone who was biologically female at birth, but now identifies as a man.
Which toilet facilities do you think transgender women should use?
Wording notes: preamble defines transgender woman as 'biologically male at birth'adds 'unisex toilets' and 'whichever they prefer' options not present in earlier two-option versions
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- The women's toilets
- The men's toilets
- Unisex toilets
- Whichever toilets they prefer to use
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersBathrooms & facilitiesMay 8–9, 2025 which toilet facilities transgender men should use
In the following questions a transgender woman is someone who was biologically male at birth, but now identifies as a woman. A transgender man is someone who was biologically female at birth, but now identifies as a man.
And which toilet facilities do you think transgender men should use?
Wording notes: parallel to the transgender-women item
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- The women's toilets
- The men's toilets
- Unisex toilets
- Whichever toilets they prefer to use
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersPolitical salienceMay 8–9, 2025 awareness of the For Women Scotland Supreme Court ruling
In April the UK Supreme Court issued a ruling about the definition of a woman and sex in UK equality law. How aware, if at all, are you of this story?
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- I am aware of it and know a lot about it
- I am aware of it and know a little about it
- I am aware of it, but don't know anything about it
- I was not aware of this story at all
YouGovfor Sex MattersNondiscriminationMay 8–9, 2025 approval of the Supreme Court ruling that 'sex' in the Equality Act means biological sex
The Supreme Court ruled that when the Equality Act provides rights based on people's sex, it means their biological sex. From what you have seen or heard, do you think the Court made the right or wrong decision in this case?
Wording notes: describes the ruling in the Court's own terms without stating the effect on transgender people
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- The right decision
- The wrong decision
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersNondiscriminationMay 8–9, 2025 whether the ruling clarified the law on women's rights as applied to transgender people
Do you think the Supreme Court ruling has made the law around women's rights and how they apply to transgender people clear or not?
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Has made it clear
- Has not made it clear
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersPolitical salienceMay 8–9, 2025 expected impact of the ruling on the respondent personally
What impact, if any, do you think the Supreme Court's ruling will have on... You personally
Wording notes: grid item
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Very positive
- Fairly positive
- Will make no real difference
- Fairly negative
- Very negative
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersPolitical salienceMay 8–9, 2025 expected impact of the ruling on friends and family
What impact, if any, do you think the Supreme Court's ruling will have on... Your friends and family
Wording notes: grid item
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Very positive
- Fairly positive
- Will make no real difference
- Fairly negative
- Very negative
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersPolitical salienceMay 8–9, 2025 expected impact of the ruling in workplaces
What impact, if any, do you think the Supreme Court's ruling will have on... Workplaces
Wording notes: grid item
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Very positive
- Fairly positive
- Will make no real difference
- Fairly negative
- Very negative
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersSportsMay 8–9, 2025 expected impact of the ruling on sport and leisure activities
What impact, if any, do you think the Supreme Court's ruling will have on... Sport and leisure activities
Wording notes: grid item
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Very positive
- Fairly positive
- Will make no real difference
- Fairly negative
- Very negative
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersSportsMay 8–9, 2025 English sports governing bodies barring transgender women from women's teams
In the following questions a transgender woman is someone who was biologically male at birth, but now identifies as a woman. A transgender man is someone who was biologically female at birth, but now identifies as a man.
Last week the governing bodies for several major sports in England, including football, cricket and netball announced that transgender women will no longer be eligible to play in women's teams in England. Generally speaking, do you think this is...
Wording notes: preamble defines transgender woman as 'biologically male at birth'cites the governing bodies' announcement as a fait accompli
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- The right decision
- The wrong decision
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersLegal documents & IDsMay 8–9, 2025 sex/gender shown on driving licences and passports
Thinking about the information that is shown on official documents like driving licences and passports, do you think they should show...
Wording notes: 'biological sex at birth' versus 'the gender that the person identifies as'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- The person's biological sex at birth
- The gender that the person identifies as
- Neither
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersLegal documents & IDsMay 8–9, 2025 basis for male/female status in a government digital ID app
The Government is currently developing digital services that will enable people to share official information about themselves via an app on their phone. If the new app can be used as proof that someone is male or female what do you think this should be based on?
Wording notes: ties the question to a live government programme
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- The person's biological sex at birth
- The gender that the person identifies as
- Neither
- Don't know
Marquette Law School PollLegal documents & IDsMay 5–15, 2025Trump executive order defining sex as male/female only and requiring federal documents including passports to reflect birth sex - second fielding
Asked within a battery of favor/oppose items on Trump administration executive actions.
Do you favor or oppose President Trump's executive order requiring federal agencies to recognize biological sex as male or female only, eliminate references to gender identity in policies, and require federal documents, such as passports, to reflect biological sex, not gender identity?
Wording notes: bundles three distinct policy components into one item (binary sex recognition, removal of gender identity references from policy, document/passport markers)attributes the policy to President Trump by nameadopts the administration's own term 'biological sex'reported two-way with undecideds excludedMarquette's prose describes this as the order declaring it US policy 'to recognize two sexes, male and female' - a shorter characterization than the item actually asked
Response options as the pollster wrote them
Marquette Law School PollPolitical salienceMay 5–15, 2025 most important issue - recorded to document that transgender issues were NOT among the nine options Marquette offered
Which one of the following issues matters MOST to you right now?
Inflation and the cost of living
36%
Threats to democracy
19%
The economy
13%
Medicare & Social Security
10%
Immigration and border security
9%
The size of the federal deficit
4%
Health care
3%
Abortion policy
2%
Foreign policy
2%
Don't know
3%
- Sample
- 1,004 adults · +/- 3.6 percentage points
- Method
- probability panel
- Where
- US national
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)PDF, external
Full record
Wording notes: CLOSED list - transgender issues, gender identity and LGBTQ policy are absent from the option set entirelya closed most-important-issue list cannot measure the salience of an issue it does not offer, so this item establishes an upper bound only by omissionrecorded here as a null/absence finding: no percentage for transgender issues exists in this poll because the option was never presented
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Inflation and the cost of living
- Threats to democracy
- The economy
- Medicare & Social Security
- Immigration and border security
- The size of the federal deficit
- Health care
- Abortion policy
- Foreign policy
- Don't know
Marquette Law School PollYouth medical careMay 5–15, 2025 United States v. Skrmetti (pending): how should the Court rule on Tennessee's ban
[In December, the Supreme Court heard arguments challenging a Tennessee law that prohibits medical providers from prescribing puberty-delaying medication or performing gender transition surgery for youth under 18.]
[In December, the Supreme Court heard arguments challenging a Tennessee law that prohibits medical providers from prescribing puberty-delaying medication or performing gender transition surgery for youth under 18.] How do you think the Court should rule?
Wording notes: describes the law by its two most restricted interventions'uphold' vs 'overturn' framing rather than substantive policy alternatives
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Uphold the Tennessee law
- Overturn the law
AP-NORCfor The Associated PressParty & candidate handlingMay 2025 – May 5, 2025 Trump job approval on transgender issues
[GRID ITEMS RANDOMIZED; HALF SAMPLE ASKED RESPONSE OPTIONS IN REVERSE ORDER]
Overall, do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling...? Transgender issues
Approve 171%222% Disapprove
- Sample
- 1,175 adults · +/- 4.0 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level, including the design effect (6.1 pts Democrats, 6.3 pts Republicans, 9.8 pts independents)
- Method
- probability panel
- Where
- US national
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)
Full record
Base: 1,101 completed via the web and 74 by telephone; 65 interviews removed in quality-assurance checks prior to weighting
Wording notes: asked in a randomized grid alongside the economy, immigration, and colleges/universities
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Approve
- Disapprove
- DK
- SKP/REF