Hobby School of Public AffairsSportsparaphrasedOct 4–21, 2021
Texas HB 25 - requiring public school athletes to compete in sports associated with their biological sex
During the third special session of the Texas Legislature in 2021, House Bill 25 (HB 25) was passed, codifying existing protocols governing public high school and middle school athletics (that is University Interscholastic League, or UIL, athletics).
[Level of support for House Bill 25, legislation] which would require male Texas public high school and middle school students to compete only in sports associated with their biological sex, such that a transgender female (a biological male who identifies as female) would not be eligible to compete in athletics with biological females.
Support 128%55% Oppose
- Sample
- 2,067 adults · confidence interval of +/- 2.2
- Method
- online opt-in
- Where
- Texas (statewide)
- Source
- Pollster release(opens another site)PDF, external
Full record · 16 subgroup figures
Base: includes oversamples of Black and Latino Texans
Wording notes: uses 'biological sex' and glosses transgender female as 'a biological male who identifies as female'frames the law as 'codifying existing protocols', which minimizes the change
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly support
- Somewhat support
- Somewhat oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Don't know