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McLaughlin & AssociatesSportsJan 22–27, 2025federal law barring trans women and girls from women's and girls' sports
Do you support or oppose Congress passing a federal law that prevents biological males from competing in women's and girls' sports?
Wording notes: 'biological males' is the only descriptor offered'prevents ... from competing' frames a ban as prevention, which is easier to endorse than 'ban'no age, sport or level of competition specifiedfielded in the week of the second Trump inauguration, when the executive order on this subject was imminent
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly support
- Somewhat support
- Somewhat oppose
- Strongly oppose
- DK/Refused
McLaughlin & Associatesfor Buckley InstituteSportsSep 7–14, 2023 transgender college athletes competing in a league designated for a gender different from assigned sex at birth
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING COMES CLOSER TO YOUR OPINION ON ALLOWING TRANSGENDER COLLEGE ATHLETES TO PARTICIPATE IN A SPORTS LEAGUE DESIGNATED FOR A GENDER THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM THEIR ASSIGNED GENDER AT BIRTH? 1. TRANSGENDER ATHLETES SHOULD BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN WHICHEVER GENDER CLASS THEY FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE IN. OR 2. THIS IS AN ISSUE OF FAIRNESS. AND WHILE I MAY SUPPORT TRANSGENDER RIGHTS, THIS DISADVANTAGES OTHER ATHLETES BECAUSE THERE ARE BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN.
This is an issue of fairness ... biological differences between men and women
59%
Should be able to participate in whichever gender class they feel more comfortable in
32.1%
Unsure
8.9%
- Sample
- 803 four-year, full-time undergraduate students under 25
- Method
- online opt-in
- Where
- US national
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)
Full record
Base: topline header states N=803; the tabulated Total column shows 802. 32.7% private, 67.3% state institutions
Wording notes: the restrictive option is a full argument while the permissive option is a bare preference statementthe restrictive option preemptively inoculates the respondent ('while I may support transgender rights')
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Transgender athletes should be able to participate in whichever gender class they feel more comfortable in
- This is an issue of fairness ... biological differences between men and women
- Unsure
McLaughlin & Associatesfor Buckley InstitutePronouns & languageSep 7–14, 2023 whether the college should require students, professors and faculty to state preferred gender pronouns
DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT: "MY COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY SHOULD REQUIRE THAT STUDENTS, PROFESSORS AND FACULTY STATE THEIR PREFERRED GENDER PRONOUNS WHEN INTRODUCING THEMSELVES."
Base: topline header states N=803; the tabulated Total column shows 802. 32.7% private, 67.3% state institutions
Wording notes: tests a compulsion frame ('should require') rather than a permission frame
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly agree
- Somewhat agree
- Somewhat disagree
- Strongly disagree
- Unsure
McLaughlin & Associatesfor Buckley InstituteIdentity beliefsSep 7–14, 2023 whether gender is fixed or can be fluid
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING COMES CLOSER TO YOUR OWN PERSONAL OPINION? [GENDER IS FIXED / GENDER CAN BE FLUID]
Base: topline header states N=803; the tabulated Total column shows 802. 32.7% private, 67.3% state institutions
Wording notes: the stem is contentless - the substance sits entirely in the two response labels, which the topline abbreviates
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Gender is fixed
- Gender can be fluid
- Unsure
McLaughlin & AssociatesSportsJan 13–18, 2022 allowing trans women and girls to compete in college and high school women's sports
Approve/Disapprove: Allowing biological men to compete in sports with college women and high school girls.
Wording notes: 'biological men' is the only descriptor offered for trans women and girlsapplies 'men' to high school girls' sports, a category mismatch that maximizes the perceived incongruitybundles college and high school into one itemno counter-consideration offered
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly approve
- Somewhat approve
- Somewhat disapprove
- Strongly disapprove
- DK/Refuse
McLaughlin & AssociatesSportsNov 12–17, 2021 trans girls competing against cisgender girls in school sports, framed as a Democratic proposal
The following are proposals made by Democrats that are opposed by Republicans.
Allowing transgender boys (who have become girls) to compete against biological girls in school sports.
Base: Sample covers likely Hispanic voters in every state except California
Wording notes: the preamble explicitly attaches a partisan owner to the policy before it is described, converting the item into a partisan cue test'transgender boys (who have become girls)' is internally incoherent - it applies the male term to trans girls and then glosses transition as having 'become' something'biological girls' as the contrast termno 'don't know' option offered in the published distribution
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly approve
- Somewhat approve
- Somewhat disapprove
- Strongly disapprove