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YouGovfor The EconomistGeneral acceptanceAug 21–24, 2026whether society has gone too far in accepting transgender people
Which of the following statements comes closer to your feelings?
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Our society has gone too far in accepting people who are transgender
- Our society has been about right when it comes to accepting people who are transgender
- Our society has not gone far enough in accepting people who are transgender
- Not sure
YouGovfor The EconomistSportsAug 21–24, 2026 transgender student athletes on teams matching gender identity
Do you support or oppose allowing transgender student athletes to play on sports teams that match their gender identity, rather than the sex they were assigned at birth?
Wording notes: affirming direction is the support sidepollster prints net Support and net Oppose rowssays 'the sex they were assigned at birth'; the 2022-2023 version of the same item said 'the gender they were assigned at birth'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Support (net)
- Oppose (net)
- Strongly support
- Somewhat support
- Somewhat oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Not sure
YouGovfor The EconomistGeneral acceptanceJul 25–27, 2026 whether society has gone too far in accepting transgender people
Which of the following statements comes closer to your feelings?
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Our society has gone too far in accepting people who are transgender
- Our society has been about right when it comes to accepting people who are transgender
- Our society has not gone far enough in accepting people who are transgender
- Not sure
YouGovfor The EconomistSportsJul 25–27, 2026 transgender student athletes on teams matching gender identity
Do you support or oppose allowing transgender student athletes to play on sports teams that match their gender identity, rather than the sex they were assigned at birth?
Wording notes: affirming direction is the support sidepollster prints net Support and net Oppose rowssays 'the sex they were assigned at birth'; the 2022-2023 version of the same item said 'the gender they were assigned at birth'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Support (net)
- Oppose (net)
- Strongly support
- Somewhat support
- Somewhat oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Not sure
YouGovfor Saint Louis UniversityYouth medical careFeb 9–22, 2026 gender-affirming counseling for people under 18
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transition medical care like...
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transition medical care like...gender affirming counseling?
Base: YouGov interviewed 1,448 Missouri registered voters, matched down to 1,085, yielding a target subsample of 900 likely voters including 450 from each of two treatment groups used for an unrelated split-sample experiment.
Wording notes: battery item under a single 'gender transitional medical care' stem
Response options as the pollster wrote them
YouGovfor Saint Louis UniversityYouth medical careFeb 9–22, 2026 hormone therapy / puberty blockers for people under 18
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transition medical care like...
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transition medical care like...hormone therapy or medication that can temporarily prevent the effects of puberty?
Base: YouGov interviewed 1,448 Missouri registered voters, matched down to 1,085, yielding a target subsample of 900 likely voters including 450 from each of two treatment groups used for an unrelated split-sample experiment.
Wording notes: describes puberty blockers as 'temporarily' preventing puberty
Response options as the pollster wrote them
YouGovfor Saint Louis UniversityYouth medical careFeb 9–22, 2026 gender-affirming surgery for people under 18
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transition medical care like...
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transition medical care like...gender affirming surgery?
Base: YouGov interviewed 1,448 Missouri registered voters, matched down to 1,085, yielding a target subsample of 900 likely voters including 450 from each of two treatment groups used for an unrelated split-sample experiment.
Response options as the pollster wrote them
YouGovfor Saint Louis UniversityYouth medical careFeb 2026 gender-affirming counseling for people under 18
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transitional medical care like...
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transitional medical care like... ...gender affirming counseling
Wording notes: battery item under a single 'gender transitional medical care' stem
Response options as the pollster wrote them
YouGovfor Saint Louis UniversityYouth medical careFeb 2026 hormone therapy / puberty blockers for people under 18
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transitional medical care like...
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transitional medical care like... ...hormone therapy or medication that can temporarily prevent the effects of puberty
Wording notes: describes puberty blockers as 'temporarily' preventing puberty
Response options as the pollster wrote them
YouGovfor Saint Louis UniversityYouth medical careFeb 2026 gender-affirming surgery for people under 18
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transitional medical care like...
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transitional medical care like... ...gender affirming surgery
Response options as the pollster wrote them
YouGovfor The EconomistGeneral acceptanceNov 21–24, 2025 whether society has gone too far in accepting transgender people
Which of the following statements comes closer to your feelings?
Base: 1,511 registered voters
Wording notes: three-option too far / about right / not far enough frame
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Our society has gone too far in accepting people who are transgender
- Our society has been about right when it comes to accepting people who are transgender
- Our society has not gone far enough in accepting people who are transgender
- Not sure
YouGovfor The EconomistBathrooms & facilitiesNov 21–24, 2025 which public bathroom transgender people should use
Do you think transgender people should use the public bathrooms that correspond with their assigned sex at birth or with their current gender identity?
Base: 1,511 registered voters
Wording notes: wording adds 'public' relative to the 2021 version of this item, otherwise identical
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Assigned sex at birth
- Current gender identity
- Not sure
YouGovfor The EconomistSportsNov 21–24, 2025 trans women on women's sports teams
Should transgender women be allowed to play on women's sports teams?
Base: 1,511 registered voters
Wording notes: single-sided yes/no rather than the two-alternative forced choice used in 2021 and April 2023no level of competition specified (not limited to school or elite sport)restrictive answer is the No default, which tends to produce higher restriction than the balanced two-option version
Response options as the pollster wrote them
YouGovfor The EconomistNondiscriminationNov 21–24, 2025 whether the U.S. should do more to protect transgender people from discrimination
Do you think the U.S. should do more or less to protect transgender people from discrimination?
Base: 1,511 registered voters
Wording notes: more/less frame with a status-quo middle offered
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- More
- Less
- Doing the right amount right now
- Not sure
YouGovfor The EconomistYouth medical careNov 21–24, 2025 banning gender-affirming medical care for minors
Would you support or oppose banning transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming medical care?
Base: 1,511 registered voters
Wording notes: restrictive direction is the support sidepollster prints net Support and net Oppose rowsthe term gender-affirming medical care is left undefined
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly support
- Somewhat support
- Support (net)
- Somewhat oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Oppose (net)
- Not sure
YouGovfor The EconomistAdult medical careNov 21–24, 2025 banning gender-affirming medical care for adults
Would you support or oppose banning adults from accessing gender-affirming medical care?
Base: 1,511 registered voters
Wording notes: restrictive direction is the support sidepollster prints net Support and net Oppose rowsthe term gender-affirming medical care is left undefined
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly support
- Somewhat support
- Support (net)
- Somewhat oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Oppose (net)
- Not sure
YouGovfor Deseret News and the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young UniversityContact & populationAug 6–18, 2025 knowing someone who identifies as transgender
Do you personally know anyone who identifies as transgender? Check all that apply.
Base: YouGov interviewed 3,317 respondents, matched down to a final sample of 3,000.
Wording notes: paired with an identically structured item about knowing someone gay or lesbian (Q62)
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Yes, an immediate family member
- Yes, a close friend
- Yes, an acquaintance or coworker
- No
- Prefer not to say
YouGovfor Sex MattersBathrooms & facilitiesMay 8–9, 2025 which toilet facilities transgender women should use (four-option version)
In the following questions a transgender woman is someone who was biologically male at birth, but now identifies as a woman. A transgender man is someone who was biologically female at birth, but now identifies as a man.
Which toilet facilities do you think transgender women should use?
Wording notes: preamble defines transgender woman as 'biologically male at birth'adds 'unisex toilets' and 'whichever they prefer' options not present in earlier two-option versions
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- The women's toilets
- The men's toilets
- Unisex toilets
- Whichever toilets they prefer to use
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersBathrooms & facilitiesMay 8–9, 2025 which toilet facilities transgender men should use
In the following questions a transgender woman is someone who was biologically male at birth, but now identifies as a woman. A transgender man is someone who was biologically female at birth, but now identifies as a man.
And which toilet facilities do you think transgender men should use?
Wording notes: parallel to the transgender-women item
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- The women's toilets
- The men's toilets
- Unisex toilets
- Whichever toilets they prefer to use
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersPolitical salienceMay 8–9, 2025 awareness of the For Women Scotland Supreme Court ruling
In April the UK Supreme Court issued a ruling about the definition of a woman and sex in UK equality law. How aware, if at all, are you of this story?
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- I am aware of it and know a lot about it
- I am aware of it and know a little about it
- I am aware of it, but don't know anything about it
- I was not aware of this story at all
YouGovfor Sex MattersNondiscriminationMay 8–9, 2025 approval of the Supreme Court ruling that 'sex' in the Equality Act means biological sex
The Supreme Court ruled that when the Equality Act provides rights based on people's sex, it means their biological sex. From what you have seen or heard, do you think the Court made the right or wrong decision in this case?
Wording notes: describes the ruling in the Court's own terms without stating the effect on transgender people
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- The right decision
- The wrong decision
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersNondiscriminationMay 8–9, 2025 whether the ruling clarified the law on women's rights as applied to transgender people
Do you think the Supreme Court ruling has made the law around women's rights and how they apply to transgender people clear or not?
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Has made it clear
- Has not made it clear
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersPolitical salienceMay 8–9, 2025 expected impact of the ruling on the respondent personally
What impact, if any, do you think the Supreme Court's ruling will have on... You personally
Wording notes: grid item
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Very positive
- Fairly positive
- Will make no real difference
- Fairly negative
- Very negative
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersPolitical salienceMay 8–9, 2025 expected impact of the ruling on friends and family
What impact, if any, do you think the Supreme Court's ruling will have on... Your friends and family
Wording notes: grid item
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Very positive
- Fairly positive
- Will make no real difference
- Fairly negative
- Very negative
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersPolitical salienceMay 8–9, 2025 expected impact of the ruling in workplaces
What impact, if any, do you think the Supreme Court's ruling will have on... Workplaces
Wording notes: grid item
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Very positive
- Fairly positive
- Will make no real difference
- Fairly negative
- Very negative
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersSportsMay 8–9, 2025 expected impact of the ruling on sport and leisure activities
What impact, if any, do you think the Supreme Court's ruling will have on... Sport and leisure activities
Wording notes: grid item
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Very positive
- Fairly positive
- Will make no real difference
- Fairly negative
- Very negative
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersSportsMay 8–9, 2025 English sports governing bodies barring transgender women from women's teams
In the following questions a transgender woman is someone who was biologically male at birth, but now identifies as a woman. A transgender man is someone who was biologically female at birth, but now identifies as a man.
Last week the governing bodies for several major sports in England, including football, cricket and netball announced that transgender women will no longer be eligible to play in women's teams in England. Generally speaking, do you think this is...
Wording notes: preamble defines transgender woman as 'biologically male at birth'cites the governing bodies' announcement as a fait accompli
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- The right decision
- The wrong decision
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersLegal documents & IDsMay 8–9, 2025 sex/gender shown on driving licences and passports
Thinking about the information that is shown on official documents like driving licences and passports, do you think they should show...
Wording notes: 'biological sex at birth' versus 'the gender that the person identifies as'
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- The person's biological sex at birth
- The gender that the person identifies as
- Neither
- Don't know
YouGovfor Sex MattersLegal documents & IDsMay 8–9, 2025 basis for male/female status in a government digital ID app
The Government is currently developing digital services that will enable people to share official information about themselves via an app on their phone. If the new app can be used as proof that someone is male or female what do you think this should be based on?
Wording notes: ties the question to a live government programme
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- The person's biological sex at birth
- The gender that the person identifies as
- Neither
- Don't know
YouGovfor The EconomistPolitical salienceparaphrasedMar 22–25, 2025 whether lawmakers are spending too much or too little time on transgender issues - the rare item where Democrats and Republicans converge
[Are lawmakers spending] too much, too little, or about the right amount [of time] on transgender issues?
Base: 1,819 started the survey after screenouts; 130 deleted for breakoffs, 27 for completion time under 5 minutes, 10 for attention-check failures, 52 for data quality control; reporting based on the remaining 1,600
Wording notes: measures perceived legislative attention, which is directionally ambiguous - a respondent may say 'too much' because they oppose restrictions or because they oppose accommodationsexplicit middle option offered
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Too much
- Too little
- About the right amount
- Not sure
YouGovfor The EconomistGeneral acceptanceparaphrasedMar 22–25, 2025 society gone too far / not far enough in accepting transgender people
Do you think society has gone too far, not far enough, or about right in accepting people who are transgender?
Base: 1,819 started the survey after screenouts; 130 deleted for breakoffs, 27 for completion time under 5 minutes, 10 for attention-check failures, 52 for data quality control; reporting based on the remaining 1,600
Wording notes: three-way balanced construction with explicit middlereferent is 'society', not government policy
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Gone too far
- Not gone far enough
- About right
- Not sure
YouGovfor The EconomistSportsparaphrasedMar 22–25, 2025 federal defunding of universities that allow transgender women on women's teams - a direct test of the February 2025 executive order's enforcement mechanism
[Do you support or oppose the federal government defunding universities that allow transgender women to compete on women's sports teams?]
Base: 1,819 started the survey after screenouts; 130 deleted for breakoffs, 27 for completion time under 5 minutes, 10 for attention-check failures, 52 for data quality control; reporting based on the remaining 1,600
Wording notes: tests a coercive federal enforcement mechanism rather than the underlying sports policy, so the 14-point gap between this item (50-36) and the underlying sports item (64-20) measures resistance to federal coercion specifically
Response options as the pollster wrote them
YouGovfor The EconomistSportsparaphrasedMar 22–25, 2025 transgender student athletes on teams matching gender identity vs. sex assigned at birth
[Should transgender student athletes be allowed to play on sports teams that match their gender identity, or on teams that match their sex assigned at birth?]
Base: 1,819 started the survey after screenouts; 130 deleted for breakoffs, 27 for completion time under 5 minutes, 10 for attention-check failures, 52 for data quality control; reporting based on the remaining 1,600
Wording notes: no level of competition specified'sex assigned at birth' framing (more affirming than 'birth gender')
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Teams matching gender identity
- Teams matching sex assigned at birth
- Not sure
YouGovfor The EconomistSportsMar 22–25, 2025 trans student athletes on teams matching gender identity
Do you support or oppose allowing transgender student athletes to play on sports teams that match their gender identity, rather than the sex they were assigned at birth?
Base: 1,819 started the survey after screenouts; 130 deleted for breakoffs, 27 for completion time under 5 minutes, 10 for attention-check failures, 52 for data quality control; reporting based on the remaining 1,600
Wording notes: uses 'sex they were assigned at birth'permissive direction stated first
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly support
- Somewhat support
- Somewhat oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Not sure
YouGovfor The EconomistSportsMar 22–25, 2025 defunding universities over trans athlete participation
Do you support or oppose the federal government defunding universities that allow transgender women to play on women's sports teams?
Base: 1,819 started the survey after screenouts; 130 deleted for breakoffs, 27 for completion time under 5 minutes, 10 for attention-check failures, 52 for data quality control; reporting based on the remaining 1,600
Wording notes: bundles a funding penalty with the underlying athletics questionrestrictive direction stated as the supported option
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly support
- Somewhat support
- Somewhat oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Not sure
YouGovfor The EconomistContact & populationMar 22–25, 2025 personally knowing a transgender person
Do you personally know someone who is transgender? Select all that apply.
Base: 1,819 started the survey after screenouts; 130 deleted for breakoffs, 27 for completion time under 5 minutes, 10 for attention-check failures, 52 for data quality control; reporting based on the remaining 1,600
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Yes, someone I know well
- Yes, an acquaintance
- No
YouGovfor The EconomistGeneral acceptanceMar 22–25, 2025 whether society has gone too far in accepting transgender people
Which of the following statements comes closer to your feelings?
Base: 1,819 started the survey after screenouts; 130 deleted for breakoffs, 27 for completion time under 5 minutes, 10 for attention-check failures, 52 for data quality control; reporting based on the remaining 1,600
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Our society has gone too far in accepting people who are transgender
- Our society has been about right when it comes to accepting people who are transgender
- Our society has not gone far enough in accepting people who are transgender
- Not sure
YouGovfor The EconomistPolitical salienceMar 22–25, 2025 whether lawmakers focus too much on transgender legislation
Compared to other issues, do you think that lawmakers are focusing too much or too little on legislation relating to transgender issues?
Base: 1,819 started the survey after screenouts; 130 deleted for breakoffs, 27 for completion time under 5 minutes, 10 for attention-check failures, 52 for data quality control; reporting based on the remaining 1,600
Wording notes: drops 'in your state' relative to the 2022-2023 version, so it is a national rather than state item'too much / too little' is directionally ambiguous
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Focusing too much
- Focusing about the right amount
- Focusing too little
- Not sure
YouGovfor The EconomistGeneral acceptanceMar 2025 – Mar 4, 2025 whether society has gone too far in accepting transgender people
Which of the following statements comes closer to your feelings?
Base: 1,491 registered voters
Wording notes: three-option too far / about right / not far enough frame
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Our society has gone too far in accepting people who are transgender
- Our society has been about right when it comes to accepting people who are transgender
- Our society has not gone far enough in accepting people who are transgender
- Not sure
YouGovfor The EconomistBathrooms & facilitiesFeb 2–4, 2025 requiring bathroom use by sex assigned at birth
Support for Policies -- Requiring transgender people to use bathrooms that match their sex assigned at birth, rather than their gender identity
Would you support or oppose the following?
Base: 1,423 registered voters
Wording notes: restrictive direction is the support sidefielded during the first weeks of the second Trump administration, in a battery of that administration's actions
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly support
- Somewhat support
- Somewhat oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Not sure