How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - Issues related to sex, sexuality and gender identity should be taught in public schools, grades 1-8.
Wording notes: grade band 1-8 spans six-year-olds to fourteen-year-olds, treated as one undifferentiated policy | bundles sex, sexuality and gender identity into a single stimulus | asks about instruction, not about how trans students themselves are treated - a distinction the public debate often collapses
double_barreled — Three distinct subject matters are fused, across an eight-year developmental range. NPR/Ipsos in 2022 showed the age split is decisive - 46% supported teaching middle and high schoolers about sexual orientation and gender identity - so this item's steady 50-56% disagreement cannot be read as opposition to gender-identity content as such. Its value is as a fixed-wording trend line, not as a measure of any specific policy.
Subgroup figures (21)
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| Group | Strongly agree | Somewhat agree | Somewhat disagree | Strongly disagree | Not sure | Strongly/Somewhat agree (Net) | Somewhat/Strongly disagree (Net) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democrat | 26% | 34% | 16% | 14% | 10% | 60% | 30% |
| Republican | 8% | 11% | 14% | 63% | 5% | 19% | 77% |
| Independent | 13% | 20% | 19% | 34% | 14% | 32% | 53% |