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13 questions from 11 polls

Echelon InsightsPolitical salienceAug 13–17, 2026
whether the Democratic Party should distance itself from 'woke' statements, described as including a heavy focus on race and gender identity

[Ask if QPartyID = 2. Democrat OR QPartyLeanView = 2. Democrats]

There has been a conversation about whether the Democratic Party should distance itself from "woke" statements and actions that were common starting around 2020. This includes things like a heavy focus on race and gender identity and the use of land acknowledgements. Which comes closest to your view on this? [RANDOMIZE 1-2]

Sample
asked of a subset: Democrats and Democratic leanersfull poll: 1,002 likely voters · ±3.4 percentage points
Method
online opt-in
Where
US national
Source
Pollster release(opens another site)
Full record · 3 subgroup figures

Base: The 'woke' item was asked only of self-identified Democrats and Democratic leaners (n=483)

Wording notes: 'woke' is a contested pejorative used here as the pollster's own operative term, in scare quotesgender identity is defined into 'woke' by the stem, alongside land acknowledgements, which links it to a widely mocked practiceasked only of Democrats and Democratic leanersno definition of 'distance itself' - respondents supply their own
Response options as the pollster wrote them
  • Democrats should not distance themselves from "woke"
  • Democrats should distance themselves from "woke"
  • Unsure
Echelon InsightsSportsNov 13–17, 2025
forced choice between two framings of trans women in women's sports, asked of Democrats only

[If QPartyID = 2. Democrat OR QPartyLeanView = 2. Democrats, ask]

Which of the following statements do you agree with more, even if neither is exactly right? [RANDOMIZE 1-2]

Sample
asked of a subset: Democrats and Democratic leanersfull poll: 1,051 likely voters · +/- 3.7 percentage points
Method
online opt-in
Where
US national
Source
Pollster release(opens another site)
Full record · 3 subgroup figures

Base: trans-sports item asked only of self-identified Democrats and Democratic leaners (n=484)

Wording notes: asked only of Democrats and Democratic leanersboth alternatives carry an embedded rationale ('unfair biological advantage' vs 'transgender women are women')
Response options as the pollster wrote them
  • Transgender women should not be allowed to play in women's sports because they have an unfair biological advantage.
  • Because transgender women are women, they should be allowed to play in women's sports.
  • Unsure
Echelon InsightsPolitical salienceOct 16–20, 2025
perception that Republican leaders are focused on transgender issues

Which three issues do you think Republican Party leaders are most focused on? [ALLOW UP TO THREE] [RANDOMIZE 1-11]

Transgender issues
21%
Sample
1,010 likely voters · ±4.0 percentage points
Method
online opt-in
Where
US national
Source
Pollster release(opens another site)
Full record
Wording notes: 'Transgender issues' is offered as a bare category alongside 'Immigration' and 'Healthcare', with no indication of what position is meantpick-three format forces trade-offs, so a low share signals relative rather than absolute salience
Response options as the pollster wrote them
  • Immigration
  • Foreign policy and defense
  • Crime
  • The cost of living
  • Transgender issues
  • Abortion
  • Healthcare
  • The state of democracy
  • Jobs
  • Racial issues
  • Climate change
Echelon InsightsPolitical salienceOct 16–20, 2025
perception that Democratic leaders are focused on transgender issues

Which three issues do you think Democratic Party leaders are most focused on? [ALLOW UP TO THREE] [RANDOMIZE 1-11]

Transgender issues
29%
Sample
1,010 likely voters · ±4.0 percentage points
Method
online opt-in
Where
US national
Source
Pollster release(opens another site)
Full record
Wording notes: same bare 'Transgender issues' categorypick-three trade-off format
Response options as the pollster wrote them
  • Immigration
  • Foreign policy and defense
  • Crime
  • The cost of living
  • Transgender issues
  • Abortion
  • Healthcare
  • The state of democracy
  • Jobs
  • Racial issues
  • Climate change
Echelon InsightsPolitical salienceOct 16–20, 2025
whether voters themselves want leaders focused on transgender issues

Which three issues do you think political leaders should be most focused on? [ALLOW UP TO THREE] [RANDOMIZE 1-11]

Transgender issues
3%
Sample
1,010 likely voters · ±4.0 percentage points
Method
online opt-in
Where
US national
Source
Pollster release(opens another site)
Full record
Wording notes: same bare 'Transgender issues' categorypick-three trade-off format
Response options as the pollster wrote them
  • Immigration
  • Foreign policy and defense
  • Crime
  • The cost of living
  • Transgender issues
  • Abortion
  • Healthcare
  • The state of democracy
  • Jobs
  • Racial issues
  • Climate change
Echelon InsightsSportsJun 12–17, 2025
paired-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
Echelon InsightsSportsMar 10–13, 2025
whether Democrats agree with Gavin Newsom that trans women in women's sports is 'deeply unfair'

[If QPartyID = 2. Democrat OR QPartyLeanView = 2. Democrats, ask]

On his podcast, California Governor Gavin Newsom said that biological men who identify as women competing in women's sports was "deeply unfair." Do you agree with Newsom's statement? [RANDOMIZE SCALE 1-4, 4-1]

Sample
asked of a subset: Democrats and Democratic leanersfull poll: 1,007 likely voters · ±3.5 percentage points
Method
online opt-in
Where
US national
Source
Pollster release(opens another site)
Full record · 7 subgroup figures

Base: The Newsom item was asked only of self-identified Democrats and Democratic leaners (n=457)

Wording notes: quotes 'biological men who identify as women' in the pollster's own stem, sourced to Newsomattributes the position to a prominent Democrat, giving Democratic respondents an in-party cue to agreeasked only of Democrats and Democratic leaners'deeply unfair' is an emotive characterization carried into the stem as a quotation
Response options as the pollster wrote them
  • Strongly agree
  • Somewhat agree
  • Somewhat disagree
  • Strongly disagree
  • Unsure
Echelon InsightsPolitical salienceFeb 10–13, 2025
what voters associate with the Trump campaign's 'Kamala is for they/them' ad

During the election, the Trump campaign released an ad with the tagline, "Kamala is for they/them, Trump is for you." Which of these, if any, comes to your mind when you see this tagline? Choose all that apply. [RANDOMIZE 1-5] [SELECT MULTIPLE]

Kamala Harris is for transgender people
46%
Kamala Harris is for illegal immigrants
28%
Kamala Harris is not for everyday working Americans
26%
I didn't think of any of these
24%
Kamala Harris is for aid to foreign countries
18%
Kamala Harris is for people breaking the law
15%
Something else, please specify
4%
Unsure
5%
Sample
1,010 likely voters · +/- 3.6 percentage points
Method
online opt-in
Where
US national
Source
Pollster release(opens another site)
Full record
Wording notes: re-exposes respondents to an anti-trans campaign ad taglineresponse list mixes the trans reading with four non-trans readings
Response options as the pollster wrote them
  • Kamala Harris is for transgender people
  • Kamala Harris is for illegal immigrants
  • Kamala Harris is not for everyday working Americans
  • Kamala Harris is for aid to foreign countries
  • Kamala Harris is for people breaking the law
  • Something else, please specify
  • I didn't think of any of these
  • Unsure
Echelon Insightsfor PuckPolitical salienceDec 9–12, 2024
whether Democrats should focus less on issues of race and gender identity

[If QPartyID = 2. Democrat or QPartyLeanView = 2. Democrats, Ask] For each of the following suggestions, please indicate whether you think the Democratic Party should or should not pursue this approach to improve its future performance. [RANDOMIZE ROWS] [RANDOMIZE 1-2] [DISPLAY AS GRID]

Democrats should focus less on issues of race and gender identity

Sample
asked of a subset: Democrats and Democratic leanersfull poll: 1,001 likely voters · ±3.6 percentage points
Method
online opt-in
Where
US national
Source
Pollster release(opens another site)
Full record · 3 subgroup figures

Base: The race-and-gender-identity items were asked only of self-identified Democrats and Democratic leaners (n=442)

Wording notes: asked only of Democrats and Democratic leaners, so it measures intra-party strategy, not public opinion on trans peoplebundles race and gender identity into a single indivisible itemthe battery frames every row as a remedy for the party's 'defeat in the presidential election', which pre-loads the premise that current positioning failed'issues of race and gender identity' is a euphemism that never names any specific policy
Response options as the pollster wrote them
  • Should
  • Should not
  • Unsure
Echelon InsightsSportsJun 10–12, 2024
paired-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)
64%
Strongly agree with Option 2
54%
Strongly/somewhat agree with Option 1 (teams matching current gender identity)
27%
Strongly agree with Option 1
15%
Somewhat agree with Option 1
11%
Somewhat agree with Option 2
9%
Unsure
9%
Sample
1,013 likely voters · ±3.7 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
Echelon InsightsSportsJun 26–29, 2023
paired-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
52%
Strongly/somewhat agree with Option 1 (teams matching current gender identity)
25%
Strongly agree with Option 1
14%
Somewhat agree with Option 2
14%
Somewhat agree with Option 1
11%
Unsure
10%
Sample
1,020 likely voters · ±3.9 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
Echelon InsightsSportsJun 17–20, 2022
paired-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)
62%
Strongly agree with Option 2
47%
Strongly/somewhat agree with Option 1 (teams matching current gender identity)
24%
Somewhat agree with Option 2
15%
Strongly agree with Option 1
14%
Somewhat agree with Option 1
9%
Unsure
15%
Sample
1,030 likely voters · ±3.7 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
Echelon InsightsAdult medical careMay 20–23, 2022
whether hormone therapy for transgender individuals should be more or less regulated by government

Do you think think there should more government regulation, less government regulation, or about the same amount of regulation as now of each of the following? [DISPLAY AS GRID] [RANDOMIZE ROWS] [RANDOMIZE SCALE 1-5, 5-1] [DISPLAY OVER 2 PAGES] (the doubled word 'think think' is in the original topline)

Hormone therapy for transgender individuals

Much more
22%
The same
22%
Much less
18%
Somewhat more
10%
Somewhat less
9%
More regulation (net) 32%Less regulation (net) 27%
Sample
1,020 likely voters · ±3.7 percentage points
Method
online opt-in
Where
US national
Source
Pollster release(opens another site)
Full record
Wording notes: gender-affirming hormone therapy is placed in a consumer/industry regulation grid alongside social media, large tech companies, medical insurance, marijuana and business in general, which frames a medical treatment as a market activityno distinction between adults and minors'more regulation' is ambiguous - it can mean safety oversight or prohibition
Response options as the pollster wrote them
  • Much more
  • Somewhat more
  • The same
  • Somewhat less
  • Much less
  • Unsure

Figures transcribed from public sources; each links to the original release. How to read this data →