probability RDD
Gallup
Gallup Poll Social Series: Mood of the Nation (January 2026) -- satisfaction with the acceptance of transgender people, with new more/less follow-up · Jan 2–17, 2026 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Gallup independent
- Sponsor
- Gallup
- Fielded
- Jan 2–17, 2026
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 1,000
- 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 1,000; Gallup publishes no separate half-sample or follow-up 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 transgender-acceptance item was asked of a random half sample; the more/less follow-up was asked only of the dissatisfied portion of that half sample. Gallup publishes neither base.
Sources
Verification note. Both distributions taken from Gallup's own trend tables, dataset.csv downloaded this session: chart apodF gives 2026 Jan 2-17 = 12/21/18/42/7, and chart UbnRv ('Satisfaction Transgender More Less January Table', subtitled 'Combined responses: Satisfaction with acceptance + follow-up of those dissatisfied') gives 2026 = 33 total satisfied / 38 dissatisfied-want greater acceptance / 14 dissatisfied-want less acceptance / 8 dissatisfied-acceptance about right / 7 no opinion. The UbnRv table carries only a 2026 row, so 2026 is the first year Gallup fielded the disentangling follow-up. Field dates (Jan. 2-17, 2026), interviewer (ReconMR) and n=1,000 are from the Survey Methods statement of the Gallup state-of-the-nation release for that wave. || Both distributions taken from Gallup's own trend tables, dataset.csv downloaded this session: chart apodF gives 2026 Jan 2-17 = 12/21/18/42/7, and chart UbnRv ('Satisfaction Transgender More Less January Table', subtitled 'Combined responses: Satisfaction with acceptance + follow-up of those dissatisfied') gives 2026 = 33 total satisfied / 38 dissatisfied-want greater acceptance / 14 dissatisfied-want less acceptance / 8 dissatisfied-acceptance about right / 7 no opinion. The UbnRv table carries only a 2026 row, so 2026 is the first year Gallup fielded the disentangling follow-up. Field dates (Jan. 2-17, 2026), interviewer (ReconMR) and n=1,000 are from the Survey Methods statement of the Gallup state-of-the-nation release for that wave. No January 2026 satisfaction topline PDF was located on Gallup's file server -- the Jan. 2-17, 2026 state-of-the-nation release carries no PDF link and a site search surfaced none -- so the 2026 figures rest on Gallup's own trend tables rather than on a topline document, and no 2026 crosstab is available. By the pattern of the two prior years the 2026 base is a Form B half sample of roughly 500, but Gallup has not published that figure and it is recorded as null rather than estimated.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (2)
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?
Very dissatisfied
42%
Somewhat satisfied
21%
Somewhat dissatisfied
18%
Very satisfied
12%
No opinion
7%
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.
direction of dissatisfaction -- whether the dissatisfied want more or less acceptance of transgender people (new in 2026); reported combined with the satisfaction item
Asked only of respondents who said they were somewhat or very dissatisfied with the acceptance of transgender people in the nation.
(Asked of those dissatisfied with the acceptance of transgender people) Would you like to see transgender people be more widely accepted in this nation, less widely accepted, or is the acceptance of transgender people in this nation today about right?
Dissatisfied, want transgender people more widely accepted
38%
Dissatisfied, want transgender people less widely accepted
14%
Dissatisfied, but acceptance about right
8%
No opinion
7%
Total satisfied with current acceptance 33%
Wording notes: conditional follow-up asked only of the dissatisfied | reported by Gallup only as a combined five-category distribution with the parent satisfaction item, not as a standalone base | first fielded in 2026 -- no prior reading exists | 'about right' is offered to respondents who had just said they were dissatisfied, an internally odd option Gallup nonetheless records at 8%
neutral — Symmetric more/less/about-right choice; it exists specifically to remove the directional ambiguity in the parent item and is the analytically important half of the pair.