Gallup Poll Social Series: Mood of the Nation (January 2025) -- satisfaction with the acceptance of transgender people · Jan 2–15, 2025 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Gallup independent
- Sponsor
- Gallup
- Fielded
- Jan 2–15, 2025
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 1,005
- Sample frame
- probability RDD
- Mode
- telephone -- live interviewer, dual-frame landline and cellphone RDD (minimum quotas of 80% cellphone and 20% landline), conducted for Gallup by ReconMR
- Margin of error
- +/- 4 percentage points for the full sample of 1,005; the transgender item rests on the Form B half sample of 505, for which Gallup publishes no separate margin of error
- Weighting
- weighted to U.S. Census targets; all reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- The item was asked of Form B only. Gallup's January 2025 final topline gives the base as 'BASED ON ~505~ NATIONAL ADULTS IN FORM B' out of a full sample of 1,005. Gallup publishes no separate half-sample margin of error.
Sources
Verification note. Distribution taken from Gallup's own trend table (Datawrapper chart apodF), dataset.csv downloaded this session: 2025 Jan 2-15 = 10/28/23/27/11. Field dates (Jan. 2-15, 2025), interviewer (ReconMR) and n=1,005 are from the Survey Methods statement of the Gallup state-of-the-nation release for that wave. This January 2025 reading was absent from the database entirely -- the only Gallup January 2025 records held were the LGBTQ+ identification aggregate and the separate Jan. 21-27 military-service wave. || Wording, base and the full demographic crosstab were read this session from Gallup's own January 2025 satisfaction topline and tabs PDF (news.gallup.com/file/poll/656150/20250205SatisfactionLists.pdf), item X, 'The acceptance of transgender people in the nation', 'BASED ON ~505~ NATIONAL ADULTS IN FORM B', 2025 Jan 2-15 = 10 / 28 / 23 / 27, total satisfied 38 / total dissatisfied 50. Crosstab table QN15X was re-extracted with fixed-pitch layout and every column checked by summing to 99-101. Field dates and n=1,005 are from the release's Survey Methods statement. The numbers agree with Gallup's Datawrapper trend table apodF, which collapses Don't know (9%) and Refused (2%) into a single 11% 'no opinion'. Partisan pattern: total satisfied 40% among Republicans, 42% among independents, 30% among Democrats -- Republicans are now the most satisfied group, which is only intelligible once the 2026 follow-up shows that dissatisfaction runs in two opposite directions.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
satisfaction with the acceptance of transgender people in the nation (Mood of the Nation state-of-the-nation battery, asked of a random half sample)
Next, we'd like to know how you feel about the state of the nation in each of the following areas. For each one, please say whether you are -- very satisfied, somewhat satisfied, somewhat dissatisfied or very dissatisfied. If you don't have enough information about a particular subject to rate it, just say so.
Next, we'd like to know how you feel about the state of the nation in each of the following areas. For each one, please say whether you are -- very satisfied, somewhat satisfied, somewhat dissatisfied or very dissatisfied. If you don't have enough information about a particular subject to rate it, just say so. How about -- the acceptance of transgender people in the nation?
Somewhat satisfied
28%
Somewhat satisfied
28%
Very dissatisfied
27%
Very dissatisfied
27%
Somewhat dissatisfied
23%
Somewhat dissatisfied
23%
Very satisfied
10%
Very satisfied
10%
No opinion
11%
Don't know
9%
Refused
2%
Wording notes: asked of a random half sample of the January Mood of the Nation sample | satisfaction framing collapses two opposite reasons for dissatisfaction (wanting more acceptance and wanting less) into a single 'dissatisfied' response, which Gallup itself disentangles only with the 2026 follow-up | explicit don't-know escape offered in the stem
unclear — The stem is neutral, but the response scale is directionally ambiguous for this subject: a respondent who wants far less acceptance of transgender people and a respondent who wants far more both record as 'dissatisfied.' Gallup's own 2026 follow-up exists precisely because the headline number cannot be read as support or opposition.
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