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Military Times / Syracuse University InstituteMilitary serviceparaphraseddata flagDec 16–21, 2016active-duty opinion of the 2016 decision to allow open transgender service
What is your opinion of the decision to allow transgender troops to serve openly in the military?
Base: 87% male, 13% female; mean age 30; 73% white, 12% Hispanic, 11% African American, 4% Asian, 9% other
Wording notes: asked of a self-selected military-readership sample, which skews older, more senior and more male than the force
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Very positive
- Somewhat positive
- Somewhat negative
- Very negative
- No opinion
Military Times / Syracuse University InstituteMilitary serviceparaphraseddata flagDec 16–21, 2016 perceived effect of open transgender service on unit readiness
What effect will allowing transgender troops to serve openly have on your unit's readiness?
Little or no effect on readiness
47%
Hurt readiness
41%
Benefit readiness
12%
- Sample
- 1,664 active-duty U.S. military service members · approximately ±2 percentage points
- Method
- nonprobability quota
- Where
- US national - active-duty U.S. military
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)
Full record
Base: 87% male, 13% female; mean age 30; 73% white, 12% Hispanic, 11% African American, 4% Asian, 9% other
Wording notes: readiness framing, the same frame used in the Pentagon's own 2017-2019 policy justifications
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Benefit readiness
- Little or no effect
- Hurt readiness
Military Times / Syracuse University InstituteMilitary serviceparaphraseddata flagDec 16–21, 2016 perceived effect on morale
What effect will allowing transgender troops to serve openly have on morale?
No effect on morale
27%
Boost morale
16%
- Sample
- 1,664 active-duty U.S. military service members · approximately ±2 percentage points
- Method
- nonprobability quota
- Where
- US national - active-duty U.S. military
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)
Full record
Base: 87% male, 13% female; mean age 30; 73% white, 12% Hispanic, 11% African American, 4% Asian, 9% other
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Boost morale
- No effect
- Hurt morale