Item 14 in a battery rating specific actions taken by President Biden; adjacent items covered the bipartisan infrastructure bill (Q12), reversing Trump immigration and border policies (Q13), and the enhanced child tax credit (Q15).
Repealing the Trump-era ban on most transgender Americans serving in the U.S. military. Do you approve, disapprove, or is it something you do not care about?
Wording notes: attributes the ban to Trump, making the item partly a referendum on Trump as well as on the policy | offers an explicit not something I care about option, which lowers both approve and disapprove | the qualifier most transgender Americans reflects the ban's actual scope but softens it
loaded_terms — Trump-era ban is factually accurate but partisan-cued, so the item measures reaction to Trump as well as to transgender military service; the explicit low-salience option is a design choice that suppresses both directional shares
Subgroup figures (12)
party
| Group | Approve | Disapprove | Not something I care about | Unsure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democrat | 87% | 7% | 4% | 2% |
| Republican | 5% | 77% | 12% | 5% |
| Independent | 44% | 42% | 9% | 5% |