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Policy Institute at King's College London / Ipsos UK culture wars study · Aug 21–27, 2025 · UK national

Methodology

Pollster
Ipsos academic
Sponsor
The Policy Institute, King's College London
Commissioned by
The Policy Institute, King's College London
Fielded
Aug 21–27, 2025
Population
adults aged 16 and over
Sample size
4,027
Sample frame
probability panel
Panel
Ipsos UK KnowledgePanel
Mode
online, Ipsos UK KnowledgePanel - an online random probability panel recruited offline from every address in the UK, with tablets and internet access supplied to otherwise-offline participants
Margin of error
not disclosed
Weighting
weighted by age, gender, region, Index of Multiple Deprivation quintile, education, ethnicity and number of adults in the household to reflect the profile of the UK population
Geography
UK national

Sources

Verification note. Question wording, response labels, toplines and the age, gender, age-by-sex and party crossbreaks read from the KCL Policy Institute / Ipsos report 'The UK's changing culture wars'. Percentages were recovered from the report's chart data series; every subgroup column sums to 99-101%, which cross-checks the assignment. Methodology paragraph quoted from the report's study-details page. The linked Ipsos public-use tables PDF covers other items in the same wave and does not carry this item's crossbreaks.

Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.

Questions asked (1)

General acceptanceforced choicein a trend series
whether transgender rights in the UK have gone too far, not far enough, or as far as they should

Which of the following statements best matches your view?

Transgender rights have gone too far in the UK
39%
Transgender rights have gone as far as they should go in the UK
27%
Transgender rights have not gone far enough in the UK
19%
Don't know/prefer not to say
15%

Wording notes: 'gone too far' / 'not gone far enough' symmetric three-way frame | the stem itself carries no content; all substance is in the response options

neutral — the three substantive options are symmetric around an explicit middle, and a don't-know is offered; the frame does presuppose that 'transgender rights' is a coherent single object of judgement

Subgroup figures (68)

party

GroupTransgender rights have not gone far enough in the UKTransgender rights have gone as far as they should go in the UKTransgender rights have gone too far in the UKDon't know/prefer not to say
Reform UK supporters5%19%70%6%
Conservative supporters6%30%58%6%
Liberal Democrat supporters27%38%20%14%
Labour supporters30%33%23%14%
Green supporters57%19%13%12%

gender

GroupTransgender rights have not gone far enough in the UKTransgender rights have gone as far as they should go in the UKTransgender rights have gone too far in the UKDon't know/prefer not to say
Male18%26%44%13%
Female19%28%35%17%

age

GroupTransgender rights have not gone far enough in the UKTransgender rights have gone as far as they should go in the UKTransgender rights have gone too far in the UKDon't know/prefer not to say
Age 16-2436%22%19%23%
Age 25-3434%21%26%20%
Age 35-5419%27%38%16%
Age 55+7%31%52%10%

other

GroupTransgender rights have not gone far enough in the UKTransgender rights have gone as far as they should go in the UKTransgender rights have gone too far in the UKDon't know/prefer not to say
Men aged 60+6%26%60%9%
Women aged 60+7%35%47%11%
Men aged 30-5919%26%42%13%
Women aged 30-5919%28%35%19%
Men aged 16-2931%24%25%20%
Women aged 16-2942%19%16%24%

Every figure on this page is transcribed from the source linked above. How to read this data →