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RWRedfield & Wilton Strategiesfor NewsweekPronouns & languageJul 6, 2023
whether misgendering should be a criminal offense
Referring to someone by the wrong gender pronoun (he/him, she/her) should be a criminal offense
Base: 1,500 eligible voters in the United States.
Wording notes: tests a maximalist policy (criminal offense) that no U.S. jurisdiction has enacteddoes not distinguish deliberate from accidental misgendering
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Agree
- Disagree
- Neither agree nor disagree
- Don't know
RWRedfield & Wilton Strategiesfor NewsweekPronouns & languageparaphrasedJul 6, 2023
whether the respondent would use she/her for a transgender woman on request
[stem not published] whether the respondent would call someone who was previously male "she/her" if requested
Base: 1,500 eligible voters in the United States.
Wording notes: describes the person as 'previously male' rather than as a transgender womanoffers a conditional 'depends on the person' option taken by more than a quarter
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Would use she/her
- Would continue to use he/his
- Depends on the person
- Don't know
RWRedfield & Wilton Strategiesfor NewsweekPronouns & languageparaphrasedJul 6, 2023
whether the respondent would use he/him for a transgender man on request
[stem not published] whether the respondent would refer to someone born female who wanted to be referred to as "he/him" that way
Base: 1,500 eligible voters in the United States.
Wording notes: describes the person as 'born female' rather than as a transgender man
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Would follow the request
- Would refuse
- Depends on the person
- Unsure
RWRedfield & Wilton Strategiesfor NewsweekContact & populationparaphrasedApr 30, 2023
public estimate of the share of the population that is transgender
What percentage of the population do you think identifies with a different gender to the one they were born with?
Between 1% and 3%
22%
More than 5%
21%
Between 3% and 5%
18%
Fewer than 1% (the approximately correct answer)
16%
Don't know
23%
1% or more (NET) 61%
- Sample
- 1,500 eligible voters · not disclosed
- Method
- online opt-in
- Where
- US national
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)
Full record
Base: 1,500 eligible voters in the U.S.
Wording notes: innumeracy item - measures misperception rather than attitude
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Fewer than 1%
- Between 1% and 3%
- Between 3% and 5%
- More than 5%
- Don't know
RWRedfield & Wilton Strategiesfor NewsweekBooks & mediaparaphrasedApr 30, 2023
whether trans issues receive too much media attention
[stem not published] whether transgender issues receive too much, too little or about the right amount of media attention
Base: 1,500 eligible voters in the U.S.
Wording notes: only two of the response shares were published, so the middle and don't-know shares are unknown
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Too much attention
- Not enough attention
RWRedfield & Wilton Strategiesfor NewsweekBooks & mediaApr 30, 2023
agreement with the statement that almost nobody is talking about trans issues
Almost nobody is talking about trans issues.
Base: 1,500 eligible voters in the U.S.
Wording notes: agree/disagree item, which is subject to acquiescence biasnegatively worded statement
Response options as the pollster wrote them
RWRedfield & Wilton Strategiesfor NewsweekContact & populationparaphrasedApr 30, 2023
personally knowing a transgender person
[stem not published] whether the respondent personally knows someone who identifies as transgender
Base: 1,500 eligible voters in the U.S.
Wording notes: the 8 percent yes rate is far below contemporaneous estimates from other pollsters, which is itself a finding worth checking against the pollster's own table
Response options as the pollster wrote them
RWRedfield & Wilton Strategiesfor NewsweekGeneral acceptanceparaphrasedApr 30, 2023
self-described support for transgender rights
[stem not published] whether the respondent would describe themselves as a supporter of transgender rights
Base: 1,500 eligible voters in the U.S.
Wording notes: identity/self-label item rather than a policy item
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Yes, a supporter of transgender rights
- No
- Don't know