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Harvard CAPS/Harris
Monthly Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll: June 2023 · Jun 14–15, 2023 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Harvard CAPS/Harris commercial
- Sponsor
- Harvard University Center for American Political Studies (Harvard CAPS) and The Harris Poll
- Fielded
- Jun 14–15, 2023
- Population
- registered voters
- Sample size
- 2,090
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- The Harris Poll online panel
- Mode
- online survey, Harris Poll online panel
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- weighted for age within gender, region, race/ethnicity, marital status, household size, income, employment, political party, political ideology, and education
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- Unweighted and weighted base 2,090.
Sources
Verification note. Wording and percentages read directly from the Harvard CAPS-Harris June 2023 topline PDF, Tables 90 and 94. ISS7 and ISS15 (bundled state-attribute items that include 'not allow gender surgery for kids under 18') were located in the PDF but their result rows could not be cleanly parsed and are recorded as a gap.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (2)
age limit on gender surgery and puberty blockers
Do you think that surgery to change gender and puberty blockers should be allowed for minors under 18 or only be allowed for people over 18 years old in your state?
Only be allowed for people over 18 years old
78%
Allowed for minors
22%
Wording notes: bundles surgery and puberty blockers into a single stimulus, though the two have very different prevalence in minors | no 'not sure' option | no mention of parental or clinical involvement
tilts_restrictive — leading with 'surgery to change gender' before 'puberty blockers' anchors the item on the rarest intervention; bundling makes the permissive option require endorsing surgery for minors, which drives the 78% result above items that ask about blockers or hormones separately
Parental rightsfavor/oppose
youth gender care without parental permission
Do you favor or oppose a law in your state that would allow gender changing surgery and puberty blockers for minors without parental permission?
Wording notes: bundles surgery and puberty blockers | 'without parental permission' describes a policy essentially no U.S. state has enacted | no 'not sure' option
tilts_restrictive — the stimulus is a policy almost nobody defends - minors receiving surgery without parental consent - so the 77% opposition is near a floor effect and cannot be read as opposition to parent-consented care, though it has been widely cited that way