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NNNBC News/Wall Street JournalBathrooms & facilitiesMay 15–19, 2016
whether transgender people should be allowed to use restrooms matching their gender identity
Now, North Carolina recently passed a law that PREVENTS transgender people from using public restrooms that match the gender with which they identify and instead requires them to use public restrooms based upon their gender at birth.
Now, North Carolina recently passed a law that PREVENTS transgender people from using public restrooms that match the gender with which they identify and instead requires them to use public restrooms based upon their gender at birth. Do you believe transgender people should be allowed to use the public restroom of the gender with which they identify, or should they be legally prevented from doing so, or do you not have an opinion one way or the other?
Allowed to use
40%
Should not pass laws on this issue
38%
Should not pass laws on this issue
38%
Prevented
31%
Don't have an opinion
29%
Should pass laws preventing
22%
Should pass laws preventing transgender people from using the public restroom that matches the gender with which they identify
22%
Don't have an opinion
21%
Should pass laws allowing
19%
Should pass laws allowing transgender people to use the public restroom that matches the gender with which they identify
19%
- Sample
- 1,000 registered voters · ±3.1 percentage points
- Method
- probability RDD
- Where
- US national
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)
Full record
Base: Several transgender items were asked of split halves (Form A / Form B) of the 1,000-voter sample
Wording notes: long factual preamble anchoring on the North Carolina law (HB2)explicit no-opinion escape offered in the stem, which inflates the don't-know share'gender at birth' vs 'gender with which they identify' contrast pair
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Allowed to use
- Prevented
- Don't have an opinion
NNNBC News/Wall Street JournalParty & candidate handlingMay 15–19, 2016
support for Justice Department enforcement action against North Carolina's HB2
The U.S. Department of Justice has notified North Carolina this law violates the federal civil rights law. If North Carolina or any other state enforces a law like this, the Justice Department could file a lawsuit to block the law and that state's public schools could lose millions of dollars in federal funds.
The U.S. Department of Justice has notified North Carolina this law violates the federal civil rights law. If North Carolina or any other state enforces a law like this, the Justice Department could file a lawsuit to block the law and that state's public schools could lose millions of dollars in federal funds. Would you support or oppose the Justice Department taking these actions or do you not have an opinion one way or the other?
Base: Several transgender items were asked of split halves (Form A / Form B) of the 1,000-voter sample
Wording notes: preamble states only the costs of enforcement (lawsuits, loss of school funding) and none of the benefitsno countervailing consequence offered for non-enforcement
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Support
- Oppose
- Don't have an opinion
NNNBC News/Wall Street JournalContact & populationMay 15–19, 2016
personally knowing or working with a transgender person
Do you PERSONALLY know or work with someone who is transgender, that is, someone who does not identify with their birth gender?
Base: Several transgender items were asked of split halves (Form A / Form B) of the 1,000-voter sample
Wording notes: defines 'transgender' in-stem via 'does not identify with their birth gender'combines knowing and working with into a single measure
Response options as the pollster wrote them
NNNBC News/Wall Street JournalGeneral acceptanceMay 15–19, 2016
whether society has gone too far / not far enough in accepting transgender people
Which of the following statements comes closer to your feelings about the way our society deals with people who are transgender, that is, someone who does not identify with their birth gender, like a person born as a man who now identifies and is living as a woman. (ROTATE STATEMENT A AND B)--A) we have gone too far in accepting transgender people, B) we have not gone far enough in ending discrimination against transgender people, or C) we have reached a reasonable balance when it comes to this issue?
Have gone too far in accepting transgender people
33%
Have not gone far enough in ending discrimination against transgender people
33%
Too far
33%
Not far enough
33%
Have reached a reasonable balance
28%
A reasonable balance
28%
Not sure
4%
Unsure
4%
None/Mixed (vol.)
2%
Neither (vol.)
1%
- Sample
- 1,000 registered voters · ±3.1 percentage points
- Method
- probability RDD
- Where
- US national
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)
Full record
Base: Several transgender items were asked of split halves (Form A / Form B) of the 1,000-voter sample
Wording notes: three-way choice with an explicit middle optionstatements A and B rotatedadds an illustrative example ('a person born as a man who now identifies and is living as a woman') absent from the 2015 version
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- A--have gone too far
- B--have not gone far enough
- C--have reached a reasonable balance
- Neither (VOL)
- Mixed (VOL)
- Not sure
NNNBC News/Wall Street JournalContact & populationMay 15–19, 2016
personally knowing or working with a transgender person
Now, not thinking about people you may have seen, read, or heard about, but only whom you know, do you PERSONALLY know or work with someone who is transgender, that is, someone who does not identify with their birth gender like a person born as a man who now identifies and is living as a woman or a person born as a woman who now identifies and is living as a man?
Base: Several transgender items were asked of split halves (Form A / Form B) of the 1,000-voter sample
Wording notes: capitalises PERSONALLYincludes a two-direction definitional gloss of 'transgender'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
NNNBC News/Wall Street JournalGeneral acceptanceJun 14–18, 2015
whether society has gone too far / not far enough in accepting transgender people
Which of the following statements comes closer to your feelings about the way our society deals with people who are transgender, that is, someone who does not identify with their birth gender. (ROTATE STATEMENT A AND B)--A) we have gone too far in accepting transgender people, B) we have not gone far enough in ending discrimination against transgender people, or C) we have reached a reasonable balance when it comes to this issue?
Have not gone far enough in ending discrimination against transgender people
35%
Have reached a reasonable balance
34%
Have gone too far in accepting transgender people
24%
Mixed (vol.)
1%
Not sure
5%
Neither (vol.)
1%
- Sample
- 1,000 adults · ±3.1 percentage points
- Method
- probability RDD
- Where
- US national
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)PDF, external
Full record
Wording notes: three-way choice with an explicit middle optionstatements A and B rotated
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- A--have gone too far
- B--have not gone far enough
- C--have reached a reasonable balance
- Neither (VOL)
- Mixed (VOL)
- Not sure