Data for Progress

In response to President Trump's recent executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion and transgender inclusion across the federal government, LGBTQ+-inclusive language and information sources have been changed or removed from government materials and websites. Knowing this, do you support or oppose each of the following?

In response to President Trump's recent executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion and transgender inclusion across the federal government, LGBTQ+-inclusive language and information sources have been changed or removed from government materials and websites. Knowing this, do you support or oppose each of the following? - Changing federal government references from "LGBTQ" to "LGB" to exclude transgender and queer Americans

Wording notes: item text states the purpose as 'to exclude transgender and queer Americans' | preamble characterizes the executive orders as 'targeting'

tilts_affirming — both the preamble ('targeting') and the item ('to exclude') supply an adversarial characterization of the policy before asking about it

Have you experienced any of the following as a result of anti-transgender policies and rhetoric in the last year? Please select all that apply.

Wording notes: attributes the experiences to 'anti-transgender policies and rhetoric' in the stem, so the item measures attributed rather than raw incidence

loaded_terms — The stem asks respondents to report experiences 'as a result of anti-transgender policies and rhetoric', which both supplies the causal attribution and uses the advocacy framing; incidence here cannot be read as incidence independent of the respondent's own causal judgment.

Do you personally know someone who is:

Do you personally know someone who is: - Transgender

Wording notes: asked as one row of a five-item LGBTQ contact battery

neutral — factual contact item

Which of the following comes closer to your view, even if neither is exactly right?

Wording notes: affirming option uses the 'families and doctors, not politicians' frame that DFP/Navigator message-testing identified as strongest

tilts_affirming — the choice is framed as government intrusion vs. family autonomy rather than as child protection vs. access, which is the framing that maximizes the affirming share

Do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements?

Do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements? - Families should have the ability to ensure their transgender child can receive medically necessary and developmentally appropriate care

Wording notes: 'medically necessary and developmentally appropriate' asserts the contested clinical premise inside the item

tilts_affirming — the statement builds in the conclusion that the care is medically necessary and appropriate, which is the exact point in dispute

Do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements?

Do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements? - Doctors who provide transgender youth medical care should lose their license to practice medicine

Wording notes: reverse-worded item - the restrictive position stated affirmatively

neutral — states the maximalist restrictive penalty plainly and serves as a counterweight to the affirming items in the same battery

Below are descriptions of people who may be affected by transgender medical care bans. For each, please state whether you think they should or should not be allowed to receive transgender medical care.

Below are descriptions of people who may be affected by transgender medical care bans. For each, please state whether you think they should or should not be allowed to receive transgender medical care. - An 18-year-old who has been prescribed transgender medical care from their doctor since age 13

Wording notes: vignette design | sympathetic case selection

tilts_affirming — the three vignettes are all constructed as sympathetic cases (long-standing care, early social transition, parental support); no unsympathetic or ambiguous case is offered

Do you support or oppose allowing transgender people who meet eligibility standards to serve in the military?

Wording notes: 'who meet eligibility standards' pre-answers the readiness objection

tilts_affirming — the qualifier 'who meet eligibility standards' removes the main argument against, raising support relative to an unqualified version

Do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements?

Do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements? - Transgender service members threaten our military's readiness

Wording notes: reverse-worded item stating the restrictive claim

neutral — states the administration's stated rationale plainly as a testable proposition

Some lawmakers have argued that teachers who support transgender students, such as by acknowledging changes to a transgender student's name, should be prosecuted.

Some lawmakers have argued that teachers who support transgender students, such as by acknowledging changes to a transgender student's name, should be prosecuted. Do you support or oppose prosecuting teachers who support transgender students?

Wording notes: 'support transgender students' is the pollster's gloss on the conduct being criminalized | no counter-argument (parental notification) offered

tilts_affirming — the conduct is described in its most benign form and the opposing rationale (parental notification rights) is not stated, which minimizes support for prosecution