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PRRINondiscriminationDec 2025 – Dec 8, 2025LGBT nondiscrimination protections in jobs, public accommodations and housing (item explicitly names transgender people)
Q12. Do you favor or oppose each of the following?
Laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.
Base: Final 2025 wave; pooled fielding ended December 8, 2025.
Wording notes: bundles transgender people with gay, lesbian and bisexual people in one itemthree policy domains combined in one question (jobs, public accommodations, housing)
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRINondiscriminationAug 15, 2025 – Sep 8, 2025 LGBT nondiscrimination protections in jobs, public accommodations and housing (item explicitly names transgender people)
Q25. How much do you favor or oppose each of the following?
Laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.
Base: 5,131 Ipsos KnowledgePanel respondents plus 412 recruited from opt-in panels. This fielding doubles as the September 2025 AVA wave and as the annual American Values Survey; PRRI labels it 'Sept. 2025' in the AVA LGBTQ trend tables, so this record replaces a separate September 2025 AVA wave rather than duplicating it.
Wording notes: bundles transgender people with gay, lesbian and bisexual people in one itemthree policy domains combined in one question (jobs, public accommodations, housing)
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIBathrooms & facilitiesAug 15, 2025 – Sep 8, 2025 laws requiring restroom use matching sex assigned at birth ('bathroom bills')
Q12. Do you favor or oppose each of the following?
Laws that require transgender individuals to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth rather than their current gender identity
Base: 5,131 Ipsos KnowledgePanel respondents plus 412 recruited from opt-in panels. This fielding doubles as the September 2025 AVA wave and as the annual American Values Survey; PRRI labels it 'Sept. 2025' in the AVA LGBTQ trend tables, so this record replaces a separate September 2025 AVA wave rather than duplicating it.
Wording notes: uses 'sex at birth' against 'current gender identity'policy stated as a restriction the respondent favors or opposes
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Somewhat favor
- Somewhat oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIGeneral acceptanceAug 15, 2025 – Sep 8, 2025 agreement that transgender people deserve equal rights and protections
How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
Transgender people deserve the same rights and protections as other Americans.
Base: 5,131 Ipsos KnowledgePanel respondents plus 412 recruited from opt-in panels. This fielding doubles as the September 2025 AVA wave and as the annual American Values Survey; PRRI labels it 'Sept. 2025' in the AVA LGBTQ trend tables, so this record replaces a separate September 2025 AVA wave rather than duplicating it.
Wording notes: abstract equality principle with no policy contentagree/disagree format is exposed to acquiescence bias
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Completely agree
- Mostly agree
- Mostly disagree
- Completely disagree
- Skipped/Refused
PRRINondiscriminationMay 2025 – May 31, 2025 LGBT nondiscrimination protections in jobs, public accommodations and housing (item explicitly names transgender people)
Q12. Do you favor or oppose each of the following?
Laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.
Base: Monthly AVA wave; the transgender-specific items (Q12d bathroom, Q11d equal rights) were fielded only in the March and September 2025 waves.
Wording notes: bundles transgender people with gay, lesbian and bisexual people in one itemthree policy domains combined in one question (jobs, public accommodations, housing)
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRINondiscriminationMar 2025 – Mar 31, 2025 LGBT nondiscrimination protections in jobs, public accommodations and housing (item explicitly names transgender people)
Q12. Do you favor or oppose each of the following?
Laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.
Base: Monthly AVA wave; PRRI publishes only pooled annual n and MOE.
Wording notes: bundles transgender people with gay, lesbian and bisexual people in one itemthree policy domains combined in one question (jobs, public accommodations, housing)
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIBathrooms & facilitiesMar 2025 – Mar 31, 2025 laws requiring restroom use matching sex assigned at birth ('bathroom bills')
Q12. Do you favor or oppose each of the following?
Laws that require transgender individuals to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth rather than their current gender identity
Base: Monthly AVA wave; PRRI publishes only pooled annual n and MOE.
Wording notes: uses 'sex at birth' against 'current gender identity'policy stated as a restriction the respondent favors or opposes
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Somewhat favor
- Somewhat oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIGeneral acceptanceMar 2025 – Mar 31, 2025 agreement that transgender people deserve equal rights and protections
How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
Transgender people deserve the same rights and protections as other Americans.
Base: Monthly AVA wave; PRRI publishes only pooled annual n and MOE.
Wording notes: abstract equality principle with no policy contentagree/disagree format is exposed to acquiescence bias
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Completely agree
- Mostly agree
- Mostly disagree
- Completely disagree
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIGeneral acceptanceFeb 28, 2025 – Dec 8, 2025 whether transgender people deserve the same rights and protections as other Americans
Agree/disagree stem not published on the report page.
transgender people deserve the same rights and protections as other Americans
Base: 20,771 respondents from Ipsos KnowledgePanel plus 1,340 from opt-in panels
Wording notes: abstract equality framing rather than a specific policyagree/disagree format subject to acquiescence biasconsistently produces much higher support than any concrete trans policy item in the same survey
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Agree (net)
- Disagree (net)
PRRIBathrooms & facilitiesparaphrasedFeb 28, 2025 – Dec 8, 2025 laws requiring bathroom use matching sex at birth
Respondents rate each policy on a strongly favor / favor / oppose / strongly oppose scale.
Laws that require transgender individuals to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth rather than their current gender identity
Base: 20,771 respondents from Ipsos KnowledgePanel plus 1,340 from opt-in panels
Wording notes: favor = restrictionsame trend item as the 2017-2023 AVA series
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
PRRINondiscriminationparaphrasedFeb 28, 2025 – Dec 8, 2025 employment, housing and public accommodation nondiscrimination laws
Do you favor or oppose laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing?
Base: 20,771 Ipsos KnowledgePanel + 1,340 opt-in panel recruits
Wording notes: names transgender people explicitly
Response options as the pollster wrote them
PRRINondiscriminationFeb 28, 2025 – Dec 8, 2025 LGBT nondiscrimination protections in jobs, public accommodations and housing (item explicitly names transgender people)
Q12. Do you favor or oppose each of the following?
Laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.
Base: Pooled annual AVA dataset: 20,771 Ipsos KnowledgePanel respondents plus 1,340 recruited by Ipsos from opt-in panels to reach a minimum of n=150 in smaller states. Aggregation of the 2025 monthly waves rather than a single fielding. The Q12d bathroom and Q11d equal-rights rows pool only the March and September 2025 waves. Unweighted party n: Republican 6,886, independent 6,334, Democrat 7,050. State sample sizes (unweighted): AL 267, AK 161, AZ 483, AR 167, CA 2,098, CO 330, CT 280, DE 167, DC 160, FL 1,385, GA 573, HI 156, ID 174, IL 704, IN 443, IA 231, KS 188, KY 315, LA 238, ME 170, MD 388, MA 383, MI 696, MN 555, MS 186, MO 351, MT 173, NE 171, NV 189, NH 165, NJ 528, NM 158, NY 1,071, NC 655, ND 158, OH 877, OK 211, OR 564, PA 1,037, RI 152, SC 320, SD 160, TN 402, TX 1,626, UT 213, VT 160, VA 581, WA 504, WV 174, WI 456, WY 157.
Wording notes: bundles transgender people with gay, lesbian and bisexual people in one itemthree policy domains combined in one question (jobs, public accommodations, housing)
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIBathrooms & facilitiesFeb 28, 2025 – Dec 8, 2025 laws requiring restroom use matching sex assigned at birth ('bathroom bills')
Q12. Do you favor or oppose each of the following?
Laws that require transgender individuals to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth rather than their current gender identity
Base: Pooled annual AVA dataset: 20,771 Ipsos KnowledgePanel respondents plus 1,340 recruited by Ipsos from opt-in panels to reach a minimum of n=150 in smaller states. Aggregation of the 2025 monthly waves rather than a single fielding. The Q12d bathroom and Q11d equal-rights rows pool only the March and September 2025 waves. Unweighted party n: Republican 6,886, independent 6,334, Democrat 7,050. State sample sizes (unweighted): AL 267, AK 161, AZ 483, AR 167, CA 2,098, CO 330, CT 280, DE 167, DC 160, FL 1,385, GA 573, HI 156, ID 174, IL 704, IN 443, IA 231, KS 188, KY 315, LA 238, ME 170, MD 388, MA 383, MI 696, MN 555, MS 186, MO 351, MT 173, NE 171, NV 189, NH 165, NJ 528, NM 158, NY 1,071, NC 655, ND 158, OH 877, OK 211, OR 564, PA 1,037, RI 152, SC 320, SD 160, TN 402, TX 1,626, UT 213, VT 160, VA 581, WA 504, WV 174, WI 456, WY 157.
Wording notes: uses 'sex at birth' against 'current gender identity'policy stated as a restriction the respondent favors or opposes
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Somewhat favor
- Somewhat oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIGeneral acceptanceFeb 28, 2025 – Dec 8, 2025 agreement that transgender people deserve equal rights and protections
How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
Transgender people deserve the same rights and protections as other Americans.
Base: Pooled annual AVA dataset: 20,771 Ipsos KnowledgePanel respondents plus 1,340 recruited by Ipsos from opt-in panels to reach a minimum of n=150 in smaller states. Aggregation of the 2025 monthly waves rather than a single fielding. The Q12d bathroom and Q11d equal-rights rows pool only the March and September 2025 waves. Unweighted party n: Republican 6,886, independent 6,334, Democrat 7,050. State sample sizes (unweighted): AL 267, AK 161, AZ 483, AR 167, CA 2,098, CO 330, CT 280, DE 167, DC 160, FL 1,385, GA 573, HI 156, ID 174, IL 704, IN 443, IA 231, KS 188, KY 315, LA 238, ME 170, MD 388, MA 383, MI 696, MN 555, MS 186, MO 351, MT 173, NE 171, NV 189, NH 165, NJ 528, NM 158, NY 1,071, NC 655, ND 158, OH 877, OK 211, OR 564, PA 1,037, RI 152, SC 320, SD 160, TN 402, TX 1,626, UT 213, VT 160, VA 581, WA 504, WV 174, WI 456, WY 157.
Wording notes: abstract equality principle with no policy contentagree/disagree format is exposed to acquiescence bias
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Completely agree
- Mostly agree
- Mostly disagree
- Completely disagree
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIBathrooms & facilitiesFeb 28, 2025 – Dec 8, 2025 laws requiring bathroom use by sex at birth
Do you favor or oppose each of the following?
Laws that require transgender individuals to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth rather than their current gender identity
Wording notes: restrictive policy is the 'favor' poleuses 'sex at birth' vs 'current gender identity'battery item with no standalone stem - the favor/oppose scale is supplied once for the whole grid
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Somewhat favor
- Somewhat oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRINondiscriminationFeb 28, 2025 – Dec 8, 2025 LGBT nondiscrimination protections
Do you favor or oppose each of the following?
Laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.
Wording notes: names all four groups explicitlylists three specific domains (jobs, public accommodations, housing)battery item with no standalone stem
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIGeneral acceptanceFeb 28, 2025 – Dec 8, 2025 trans people deserve equal rights and protections
How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
Transgender people deserve the same rights and protections as other Americans.
Wording notes: affirming direction is the 'agree' pole
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Completely agree
- Mostly agree
- Mostly disagree
- Completely disagree
- Skipped/Refused
PRRINondiscriminationNov 8, 2024 – Dec 2, 2024 LGBT nondiscrimination protections in jobs, public accommodations and housing (item explicitly names transgender people)
Q10. How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.
Base: Ipsos KnowledgePanel; 4,757 of the 5,772 respondents were 2024 voters (MOE +/- 1.9 points for the voter subsample). This is AVA Wave 4 for 2024, labeled 'Nov. 2024' in the AVA LGBTQ trend tables, so this record replaces a separate November 2024 AVA wave rather than duplicating it. No transgender-specific question unique to the post-election instrument was found - PRRI's post-election analysis covered vote choice, Christian nationalism, authoritarianism and election confidence.
Wording notes: bundles transgender people with gay, lesbian and bisexual people in one itemthree policy domains combined in one question (jobs, public accommodations, housing)
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIYouth medical careNov 8, 2024 – Dec 2, 2024 laws preventing parents from allowing a minor to receive gender-transition medical care
Q10. How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that prevent parents from allowing their child to receive medical care for a gender transition.
Base: Ipsos KnowledgePanel; 4,757 of the 5,772 respondents were 2024 voters (MOE +/- 1.9 points for the voter subsample). This is AVA Wave 4 for 2024, labeled 'Nov. 2024' in the AVA LGBTQ trend tables, so this record replaces a separate November 2024 AVA wave rather than duplicating it. No transgender-specific question unique to the post-election instrument was found - PRRI's post-election analysis covered vote choice, Christian nationalism, authoritarianism and election confidence.
Wording notes: frames the ban as constraining parents rather than minors or providersdoes not name specific interventions (puberty blockers, hormones, surgery)'medical care for a gender transition' rather than 'gender-affirming care'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRILegal documents & IDsNov 8, 2024 – Dec 2, 2024 driver's licenses and government IDs required to display sex at birth rather than gender identity
Q10. How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that require driver's licenses or government ID to display the person's sex at birth rather than their gender identity.
Base: Ipsos KnowledgePanel; 4,757 of the 5,772 respondents were 2024 voters (MOE +/- 1.9 points for the voter subsample). This is AVA Wave 4 for 2024, labeled 'Nov. 2024' in the AVA LGBTQ trend tables, so this record replaces a separate November 2024 AVA wave rather than duplicating it. No transgender-specific question unique to the post-election instrument was found - PRRI's post-election analysis covered vote choice, Christian nationalism, authoritarianism and election confidence.
Wording notes: uses 'sex at birth' against 'gender identity'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRINondiscriminationAug 16, 2024 – Sep 4, 2024 LGBT nondiscrimination protections in jobs, public accommodations and housing (item explicitly names transgender people)
Q10. How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.
Base: 5,027 Ipsos KnowledgePanel respondents plus 325 recruited from opt-in panels. This fielding doubles as AVA Wave 3 for 2024 and as the annual American Values Survey; PRRI labels it 'Sept. 2024' in the AVA LGBTQ trend tables, so this record replaces a separate September 2024 AVA wave rather than duplicating it.
Wording notes: bundles transgender people with gay, lesbian and bisexual people in one itemthree policy domains combined in one question (jobs, public accommodations, housing)
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIYouth medical careAug 16, 2024 – Sep 4, 2024 laws preventing parents from allowing a minor to receive gender-transition medical care
Q10. How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that prevent parents from allowing their child to receive medical care for a gender transition.
Base: 5,027 Ipsos KnowledgePanel respondents plus 325 recruited from opt-in panels. This fielding doubles as AVA Wave 3 for 2024 and as the annual American Values Survey; PRRI labels it 'Sept. 2024' in the AVA LGBTQ trend tables, so this record replaces a separate September 2024 AVA wave rather than duplicating it.
Wording notes: frames the ban as constraining parents rather than minors or providersdoes not name specific interventions (puberty blockers, hormones, surgery)'medical care for a gender transition' rather than 'gender-affirming care'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRILegal documents & IDsAug 16, 2024 – Sep 4, 2024 driver's licenses and government IDs required to display sex at birth rather than gender identity
Q10. How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that require driver's licenses or government ID to display the person's sex at birth rather than their gender identity.
Base: 5,027 Ipsos KnowledgePanel respondents plus 325 recruited from opt-in panels. This fielding doubles as AVA Wave 3 for 2024 and as the annual American Values Survey; PRRI labels it 'Sept. 2024' in the AVA LGBTQ trend tables, so this record replaces a separate September 2024 AVA wave rather than duplicating it.
Wording notes: uses 'sex at birth' against 'gender identity'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRINondiscriminationJun 2024 – Jun 30, 2024 LGBT nondiscrimination protections in jobs, public accommodations and housing (item explicitly names transgender people)
Q10. How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.
Base: Monthly AVA wave; PRRI publishes only pooled annual n and MOE.
Wording notes: bundles transgender people with gay, lesbian and bisexual people in one itemthree policy domains combined in one question (jobs, public accommodations, housing)
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIYouth medical careJun 2024 – Jun 30, 2024 laws preventing parents from allowing a minor to receive gender-transition medical care
Q10. How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that prevent parents from allowing their child to receive medical care for a gender transition.
Base: Monthly AVA wave; PRRI publishes only pooled annual n and MOE.
Wording notes: frames the ban as constraining parents rather than minors or providersdoes not name specific interventions (puberty blockers, hormones, surgery)'medical care for a gender transition' rather than 'gender-affirming care'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRILegal documents & IDsJun 2024 – Jun 30, 2024 driver's licenses and government IDs required to display sex at birth rather than gender identity
Q10. How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that require driver's licenses or government ID to display the person's sex at birth rather than their gender identity.
Base: Monthly AVA wave; PRRI publishes only pooled annual n and MOE.
Wording notes: uses 'sex at birth' against 'gender identity'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRINondiscriminationparaphrasedMar 13, 2024 – Dec 2, 2024 employment, housing and public accommodation nondiscrimination laws
Do you favor or oppose laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing?
Base: 20,642 Ipsos KnowledgePanel + 1,618 opt-in panel recruits to reach minimum state samples of 150
Wording notes: names transgender people explicitly alongside gay, lesbian and bisexual people
Response options as the pollster wrote them
PRRINondiscriminationMar 13, 2024 – Dec 2, 2024 LGBT nondiscrimination protections in jobs, public accommodations and housing (item explicitly names transgender people)
Q10. How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.
Base: Pooled annual AVA dataset: 20,642 Ipsos KnowledgePanel respondents plus 1,618 recruited by Ipsos from opt-in panels to reach a minimum of n=150 in smaller states. Aggregation of four monthly waves rather than a single fielding. Unweighted party n: Republican 6,821, independent 6,282, Democrat 7,307.
Wording notes: bundles transgender people with gay, lesbian and bisexual people in one itemthree policy domains combined in one question (jobs, public accommodations, housing)
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIYouth medical careMar 13, 2024 – Dec 2, 2024 laws preventing parents from allowing a minor to receive gender-transition medical care
Q10. How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that prevent parents from allowing their child to receive medical care for a gender transition.
Base: Pooled annual AVA dataset: 20,642 Ipsos KnowledgePanel respondents plus 1,618 recruited by Ipsos from opt-in panels to reach a minimum of n=150 in smaller states. Aggregation of four monthly waves rather than a single fielding. Unweighted party n: Republican 6,821, independent 6,282, Democrat 7,307.
Wording notes: frames the ban as constraining parents rather than minors or providersdoes not name specific interventions (puberty blockers, hormones, surgery)'medical care for a gender transition' rather than 'gender-affirming care'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRILegal documents & IDsMar 13, 2024 – Dec 2, 2024 driver's licenses and government IDs required to display sex at birth rather than gender identity
Q10. How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that require driver's licenses or government ID to display the person's sex at birth rather than their gender identity.
Base: Pooled annual AVA dataset: 20,642 Ipsos KnowledgePanel respondents plus 1,618 recruited by Ipsos from opt-in panels to reach a minimum of n=150 in smaller states. Aggregation of four monthly waves rather than a single fielding. Unweighted party n: Republican 6,821, independent 6,282, Democrat 7,307.
Wording notes: uses 'sex at birth' against 'gender identity'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRINondiscriminationMar 13, 2024 – Dec 2, 2024 LGBT nondiscrimination protections
How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.
Wording notes: names all four groups explicitlylists three specific domains (jobs, public accommodations, housing)battery item with no standalone stem
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRILegal documents & IDsMar 13, 2024 – Dec 2, 2024 sex marker on driver's licenses and government ID
How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that require driver's licenses or government ID to display the person's sex at birth rather than their gender identity.
Wording notes: restrictive policy is the 'favor' pole
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRINondiscriminationMar 2024 – Mar 31, 2024 LGBT nondiscrimination protections in jobs, public accommodations and housing (item explicitly names transgender people)
Q10. How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.
Base: Monthly AVA wave; PRRI publishes only pooled annual n and MOE.
Wording notes: bundles transgender people with gay, lesbian and bisexual people in one itemthree policy domains combined in one question (jobs, public accommodations, housing)
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIYouth medical careMar 2024 – Mar 31, 2024 laws preventing parents from allowing a minor to receive gender-transition medical care
Q10. How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that prevent parents from allowing their child to receive medical care for a gender transition.
Base: Monthly AVA wave; PRRI publishes only pooled annual n and MOE.
Wording notes: frames the ban as constraining parents rather than minors or providersdoes not name specific interventions (puberty blockers, hormones, surgery)'medical care for a gender transition' rather than 'gender-affirming care'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRILegal documents & IDsMar 2024 – Mar 31, 2024 driver's licenses and government IDs required to display sex at birth rather than gender identity
Q10. How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that require driver's licenses or government ID to display the person's sex at birth rather than their gender identity.
Base: Monthly AVA wave; PRRI publishes only pooled annual n and MOE.
Wording notes: uses 'sex at birth' against 'gender identity'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIYouth medical careJan 2024 – Dec 31, 2024 laws barring parents from consenting to a child's gender-transition care
How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that prevent parents from allowing their child to receive medical care for a gender transition.
Base: PRRI interviewed more than 22,000 adults across 2024 for the American Values Atlas; the transgender-policy items were fielded on a subset of that total, which the report does not separately size in the text retrieved.
Wording notes: restrictive policy is the 'favor' poleframes the ban as acting on parents, not on providers
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIYouth medical careparaphrasedJan 2024 – Dec 31, 2024 minor children; 'medical care for a gender transition'; BAN framing routed through PARENTAL AUTHORITY - the law restricts parents rather than doctors or minors
Laws that would prevent parents from allowing their child to receive medical care for a gender transition [favor or oppose]
Base: PRRI interviewed more than 22,000 adults across 2024 for the American Values Atlas; the transgender-policy items were fielded on a subset of that total, which the report does not separately size in the text retrieved.
Wording notes: BAN framing (favor = restrict)the restricted party is PARENTS, not doctors or minors - the most parental-rights-inflected wording in this file'medical care for a gender transition' rather than 'gender-affirming care'no treatment namedno age threshold beyond 'child'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
PRRINondiscriminationdata flagNov 2023 – Nov 30, 2023 LGBT nondiscrimination protections in jobs, public accommodations and housing (item explicitly names transgender people)
Q6. Do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE STATEMENTS]
Laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.
Base: Monthly AVA wave; PRRI publishes only pooled annual n and MOE.
Wording notes: bundles transgender people with gay, lesbian and bisexual people in one itemthree policy domains combined in one question (jobs, public accommodations, housing)
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly favor
- Favor
- Oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIPolitical saliencedata flagNov 2023 – Nov 30, 2023 how much LGBTQ rights would drive a vote for major political office (LGBTQ-general item, not transgender-specific)
Q12. Thinking about how the following issues might affect your vote for major political offices, would you:
LGBTQ rights
Consider a candidate's position on this issue as just one of many important factors
38%
Not see this as a major issue
33%
Only vote for a candidate who shares your views on this issue
26%
Skipped/Refused
4%
- Sample
- adults
- Method
- probability panel
- Where
- US national
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)PDF, external
Full record
Base: Monthly AVA wave; PRRI publishes only pooled annual n and MOE.
Wording notes: names 'LGBTQ rights' as a bloc rather than any transgender-specific policydoes not distinguish salience for supporters from salience for opponents
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Only vote for a candidate who shares your views on this issue
- Consider a candidate's position on this issue as just one of many important factors
- Not see this as a major issue
- Skipped/Refused
PRRIBathrooms & facilitiesparaphrasedAug 25–30, 2023 laws requiring bathroom use matching sex at birth
Laws that require transgender individuals to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth rather than their current gender identity
Base: Ipsos KnowledgePanel only - no opt-in supplement. Q41a was asked of Form 1 (N=1,268) and Q41b of Form 2 (N=1,257). PRRI labels this fielding 'Sept. 2023' in its trend tables even though it was in the field August 25-30, 2023; the 'Sept. 2023' rows in the AVA LGBTQ toplines are this survey, distinct from the separate 'Aug. 2023' AVA wave.
Wording notes: favor = restriction
Response options as the pollster wrote them