To what extent do your support or oppose the following policies?
To what extent do your support or oppose the following policies? Barring transgender people from enlisting and serving openly in the military
Wording notes: no 'don't know' offered; only 'Skipped' (4%) | restrictive polarity - 'support' means supporting the ban | 'enlisting and serving openly' is double-barreled in principle, covering both entry and continued service, though the executive order itself covered both | embedded in a ten-item battery of Trump executive orders, which activates partisan cue-taking
neutral — Accurate description of what EO 14183 did, with a balanced four-point scale. The missing don't-know inflates both sides somewhat, but the battery framing is symmetric across all ten items. Substantively this is the key finding of the executive-order period: barring trans people from the military draws 40% support against 55% opposition - the second-least popular of the ten orders tested, and a striking contrast with the 63% who backed the trans sports ban in the Reuters/Ipsos poll fielded two weeks later.
Subgroup figures (18)
party
| Group | Strongly support | Somewhat support | Somewhat oppose | Strongly oppose | Support (Net) | Oppose (Net) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | 47% | 24% | 20% | 8% | 71% | 27% |
| Democrat | 5% | 11% | 24% | 58% | 16% | 82% |
| Independent | 19% | 17% | 31% | 32% | 37% | 63% |