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Electoral Calculus / Find Out Now transgender poll, April 2025 · Apr 24–28, 2025 · UK national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Find Out Now commercial
- Sponsor
- Electoral Calculus / Find Out Now
- Commissioned by
- The Daily Telegraph
- Fielded
- Apr 24–28, 2025
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 2,684
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- Find Out Now panel
- Mode
- online panel survey of GB adults
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- weighted to be representative by gender, age, social grade, other demographics and past voting patterns
- Geography
- UK national
Sources
Verification note. Question wordings and full percentage tables (Total, Labour, Conservative, Reform) read directly from the Electoral Calculus write-up, which is the poll's own publication venue. Liberal Democrat/Green/SNP columns were not published in the blog table. Fieldwork sentence quoted verbatim from the same page.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (5)
Legal documents & IDs5-point scale
agreement with UK Supreme Court For Women Scotland ruling that trans women are not legally women under the Equality Act
Last week the UK Supreme Court ruled that trans women are not legally women under the Equality Act, so that women-only spaces can exclude trans women (people who were born male but identify as female). Do you agree or disagree with this decision?
Wording notes: parenthetically defines trans women as 'people who were born male but identify as female' | leads with the Court's authority before asking for agreement
tilts_restrictive — the stem states the ruling as settled law and glosses trans women in birth-sex terms before asking agreement, which supplies a restrictive framing before the response scale
Subgroup figures (18)
Bathrooms & facilitiesmultiple response
which single-sex spaces it is acceptable to exclude trans women from
In which of the following spaces do you believe it's acceptable to exclude trans women? Select all that apply.
Women's sports
58%
Women's prisons
52%
Women's toilets
51%
Women's gyms
44%
Rape crisis centres
41%
Lesbian social groups
27%
Wording notes: asks only about exclusion, not inclusion | no 'none of these' option reported in the published table
tilts_restrictive — the response set enumerates only exclusion targets and the preceding item established the ruling as settled, so the item measures breadth of exclusion rather than a balanced choice
Subgroup figures (18)
Legal documents & IDs5-point scale
expected impact of the Supreme Court ruling on women's rights and safety
Do you think the Supreme Court ruling will have a positive or negative impact on women's rights and safety?
Very positive
23%
Very negative
9%
Neither
15%
Don't know
20%
Positive 24%Negative 10%
neutral — symmetric positive/negative scale with an explicit neutral and don't-know option
Subgroup figures (18)
Legal documents & IDs5-point scale
expected effect of the Supreme Court ruling on discrimination against transgender people
Do you think the Supreme Court ruling will lead to an increase or decrease in discrimination against transgender people?
Some increase
24%
Big increase
18%
Some decrease
2%
Big decrease
1%
Neither
34%
Don't know
21%
neutral — symmetric increase/decrease scale with neutral and don't-know options
Subgroup figures (18)
Otherapprove/disapprove
approval of J.K. Rowling's funding of organisations advocating for women-only spaces (gender-critical advocacy figure)
Do you approve or disapprove of author J.K. Rowling's efforts to help fund organisations that advocate for women-only spaces?
Strongly approve
29%
Strongly disapprove
12%
Neither
19%
Don't know
17%
Approve 18%Disapprove 6%
Wording notes: describes the funded organisations only as advocating 'for women-only spaces', not as gender-critical or anti-trans
tilts_restrictive — the object of approval is characterised in its most sympathetic terms ('advocate for women-only spaces') with no mention of the trans-exclusionary dimension the earlier items established
Subgroup figures (18)