probability RDD
Gallup
Gallup poll on transgender restroom policy and military service · May 2016 – May 31, 2016 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Gallup independent
- Sponsor
- Gallup
- Fielded
- May 2016 – May 31, 2016
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 1,017
- Sample frame
- probability RDD
- Mode
- telephone - dual-frame RDD, live interviewer
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Geography
- US national
Sources
Verification note. 2016 toplines (50 birth gender / 40 gender identity / 10 no opinion) read from the trend table in Gallup's 2017 release, which carries the identical question wording. n=1,017 and 'mid to late May' fielding from secondary reporting; exact field dates not retrieved, so month precision. Fielded roughly two months after North Carolina HB2 and days after the May 13, 2016 federal Title IX guidance letter.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (1)
public restroom policy: birth gender vs. gender identity
In terms of policies governing public restrooms, do you think these policies should -- [ROTATED: require transgender individuals to use the restroom that corresponds with their birth gender (or should these policies) allow transgender individuals to use the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity]?
Require birth gender restroom
50%
Allow gender identity restroom
40%
No opinion
10%
Wording notes: uses 'birth gender' | uses 'transgender individuals', not 'biological males' | alternatives explicitly ROTATED | restrooms only - locker rooms not named | no middle option offered
neutral — symmetric require/allow construction with documented rotation of the two alternatives