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Curia Market Researchfor Speak Up For WomenLegal documents & IDsMay 14–19, 2026proposed law defining woman as adult human female and man as adult human male
A Member of Parliament has proposed a law defining a woman as an adult human female and a man as an adult human male on the grounds of fairness and safety in single-sex spaces. Do you support or oppose this proposed law?
Base: 991-916 respondents answered individual items; the sex-definition item has a base of 916
Wording notes: supplies the proponents' justification ('on the grounds of fairness and safety in single-sex spaces') inside the stemdoes not mention transgender people or what the law would do to them
Response options as the pollster wrote them
Curia Market Researchfor Family First New ZealandSchool policyApr 17–21, 2024 whether primary age children should be taught they can choose their gender
Do you believe that primary age children should be taught that they can choose their "gender" and that it can be changed through hormone treatment and surgery if they want it to be?
Wording notes: scare quotes around "gender"'choose their gender' framing
Response options as the pollster wrote them
Curia Market Researchfor Family First New ZealandSchool policyApr 17–21, 2024 opt-in law for primary school teaching of gender identity or sexual orientation
Would you support or oppose a law that prohibits primary schools from teaching any sexual issues, such as gender identity or sexual orientation, in the classroom as part of the curriculum in primary schools - that's ages 5 up to 10 or 11 unless parents specifically opt their children into these classes.
Wording notes: classifies gender identity as a 'sexual issue'adds a parental opt-in clause absent from the 2023 wording, so the trend is not clean
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Curia Market Researchfor Family First New ZealandYouth medical careApr 17–21, 2024 NZ ban on puberty blockers for under-16s, modelled on NHS England
The UK health service (the NHS) has stopped the use of puberty blockers, which begin the gender transition process, for children under 16 as it deemed they are too young to consent.
The UK health service (the NHS) has stopped the use of puberty blockers, which begin the gender transition process, for children under 16 as it deemed they are too young to consent. Do you support or oppose a similar ban in New Zealand on the use of puberty blockers for young people 16 or younger?
Wording notes: cites the NHS as an authority endorsing the restriction before askingasserts blockers 'begin the gender transition process'asserts children under 16 are 'too young to consent'
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Curia Market Researchfor Family First New ZealandYouth medical careApr 17–21, 2024 ban on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery for under-18s
Some people have proposed banning puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and physical sex-change surgeries for children under the age of 18 who identify as transgender. Would you support or oppose this kind of ban?
Wording notes: bundles three distinct interventions into a single ban
Response options as the pollster wrote them
Curia Market Researchfor Family First New ZealandYouth medical careApr 17–21, 2024 whether youth gender treatment should centre on blockers/hormones or on mental health
If a young person says they want to change their gender, should the treatment be primarily based on providing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, or should the treatment primarily focus on dealing with the gender dysphoria and any other underlying mental health issues.
Wording notes: presents medical transition and mental health care as mutually exclusive'underlying mental health issues' implies gender dysphoria is a symptom of something else
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Primarily blockers/hormones
- Primarily mental health
- Unsure
Curia Market Researchfor Family First New ZealandAdult medical careApr 17–21, 2024 taxpayer funding of gender-affirming surgery or hormones for adults
Do you think the taxpayers should fund surgery or hormone treatments for adults who wish to change their gender?
Wording notes: 'taxpayers should fund' framing'wish to change their gender' frames care as elective
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Curia Market Researchfor Family First New ZealandSchool policyAug 22–23, 2023 law prohibiting primary schools teaching gender identity or sexual orientation
Would you support or oppose a law that prohibits primary schools from teaching any sexual issues, such as gender identity or sexual orientation, in the classroom as part of the curriculum in primary schools - that's ages 5 up to 10 or 11.
Wording notes: classifies gender identity as a 'sexual issue'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
Curia Market Researchfor Family First New ZealandSchool policyAug 22–23, 2023 whether primary age children should be taught they can choose their gender
Do you believe that primary age children should be taught that they can choose their "gender" and that it can be changed through hormone treatment and surgery if they want it to be?
Wording notes: scare quotes around "gender"'choose their gender' framingcombines choice, hormones and surgery in one stem
Response options as the pollster wrote them
Curia Market Researchfor Family First New ZealandYouth medical careAug 22–23, 2023 ban on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery for under-18s
Some people have proposed banning puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and physical sex-change surgeries for children under the age of 18 who identify as transgender. Would you support or oppose this kind of ban?
Wording notes: 'cross-sex hormones' and 'physical sex-change surgeries' rather than clinical terminologybundles three distinct interventions into a single ban
Response options as the pollster wrote them
Curia Market Researchfor Family First New ZealandSportsAug 22–23, 2023 automatic access to girls' sports teams
Should boys who identify as girls be allowed automatic right of access to girls sports teams such as netball or girls rugby or football (and vice versa)?
Wording notes: 'boys who identify as girls' rather than 'transgender girls''automatic right of access' implies an unconditional entitlement
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Curia Market Researchfor Family First New ZealandPronouns & languageAug 22–23, 2023 whether a teacher should lose their licence for misgendering a trans student
Should a teacher lose their teaching licence for misgendering a trans student (refusing to use their preferred pronoun or recognise their gender identity)
Wording notes: tests only the most severe sanction (loss of licence)'preferred pronoun' framing
Response options as the pollster wrote them
Curia Market Researchfor Family First New ZealandSchool policyDec 17–19, 2018 whether children should be taught gender can be changed through surgery and hormones
Do you believe that children should be taught that their gender can be changed through surgery and hormone treatment if they want it to be?
Wording notes: frames gender change solely as 'through surgery and hormone treatment''if they want it to be' implies elective choice
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Curia Market Researchfor Family First New ZealandBathrooms & facilitiesDec 17–19, 2018 school toilets, changing rooms and camp bunkrooms by gender identity vs biological sex
Should schools allow children to choose the toilet, changing room and camp bunkroom they use based on their gender identity or their biological sex?
Wording notes: uses 'biological sex' as the contrast term
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Gender identity
- Biological sex
- Unsure/Refuse
Curia Market Researchfor Family First New ZealandSportsDec 17–19, 2018 school sports teams by gender identity vs biological sex
Should children play in sports teams based on their gender identity or their actual biological sex?
Wording notes: the word 'actual' modifies only the biological-sex alternative
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Gender identity
- Biological sex
- Unsure/Refuse