mixed-mode probability
Curia Market Research
Curia Market Research 'Gender Affirming Treatment' Poll for Family First New Zealand · Apr 17–21, 2024 · New Zealand national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Curia Market Research commercial
- Sponsor
- Family First New Zealand
- Commissioned by
- Family First New Zealand
- Fielded
- Apr 17–21, 2024
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 1,000
- Sample frame
- mixed-mode probability
- Mode
- mixed mode - 750 respondents by telephone (random selection of 10,000 nationwide landline and mobile numbers) and 250 via online panel; part of a wider omnibus survey
- Margin of error
- +/- 3.1 percentage points (maximum, for a result of 50%)
- Weighting
- weighted to reflect the overall NZ adult population in terms of gender, age, and area
- Geography
- New Zealand national
Sources
Verification note. Question wording, toplines, methodology page and current-party-vote crosstabs read directly from the Curia results PDF. A parental-notification question quoted in the Family First media release does not appear in this results PDF and is therefore not recorded here.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (6)
whether primary age children should be taught they can choose their gender
Do you believe that primary age children should be taught that they can choose their "gender" and that it can be changed through hormone treatment and surgery if they want it to be?
Wording notes: scare quotes around "gender" | 'choose their gender' framing
tilts_restrictive — same construction as the 2023 wave: scare-quoted "gender", elective 'choose', and hormones/surgery attached to primary-age children
Subgroup figures (18)
opt-in law for primary school teaching of gender identity or sexual orientation
Would you support or oppose a law that prohibits primary schools from teaching any sexual issues, such as gender identity or sexual orientation, in the classroom as part of the curriculum in primary schools - that's ages 5 up to 10 or 11 unless parents specifically opt their children into these classes.
Wording notes: classifies gender identity as a 'sexual issue' | adds a parental opt-in clause absent from the 2023 wording, so the trend is not clean
loaded_terms — 'any sexual issues' sexualises gender identity; the added opt-in clause also softens the ban relative to the 2023 version while being reported as the same trend
Subgroup figures (12)
NZ ban on puberty blockers for under-16s, modelled on NHS England
The UK health service (the NHS) has stopped the use of puberty blockers, which begin the gender transition process, for children under 16 as it deemed they are too young to consent.
The UK health service (the NHS) has stopped the use of puberty blockers, which begin the gender transition process, for children under 16 as it deemed they are too young to consent. Do you support or oppose a similar ban in New Zealand on the use of puberty blockers for young people 16 or younger?
Wording notes: cites the NHS as an authority endorsing the restriction before asking | asserts blockers 'begin the gender transition process' | asserts children under 16 are 'too young to consent'
tilts_restrictive — the preamble supplies a respected health authority's conclusion and two contested factual claims in support of the restriction, with no counterpoint before the response scale
Subgroup figures (18)
ban on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery for under-18s
Some people have proposed banning puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and physical sex-change surgeries for children under the age of 18 who identify as transgender. Would you support or oppose this kind of ban?
Wording notes: bundles three distinct interventions into a single ban
double_barreled — a single response has to cover blockers, hormones and surgery; the PDF itself notes respondents may only support banning some of them, and the preceding NHS preamble primes a restrictive answer
Subgroup figures (18)
Youth medical careforced choice
whether youth gender treatment should centre on blockers/hormones or on mental health
If a young person says they want to change their gender, should the treatment be primarily based on providing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, or should the treatment primarily focus on dealing with the gender dysphoria and any other underlying mental health issues.
Primarily mental health
53%
Primarily blockers/hormones
10%
Unsure
37%
Wording notes: presents medical transition and mental health care as mutually exclusive | 'underlying mental health issues' implies gender dysphoria is a symptom of something else
tilts_restrictive — the forced choice excludes the actual clinical model of combined care, and the word 'underlying' embeds the contested claim that gender dysphoria masks another condition
Subgroup figures (18)
Adult medical careagree/disagree
taxpayer funding of gender-affirming surgery or hormones for adults
Do you think the taxpayers should fund surgery or hormone treatments for adults who wish to change their gender?
Wording notes: 'taxpayers should fund' framing | 'wish to change their gender' frames care as elective
tilts_restrictive — invoking the taxpayer as payer and describing adult care as a wish rather than treatment both depress support, and the item sits at the end of a restriction-framed battery
Subgroup figures (12)