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LGBTQ+ Content Bans and Gender-Affirming Medical Care (Trevor Project / Morning Consult) · Feb 18–19, 2022 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Morning Consult commercial
- Sponsor
- The Trevor Project
- Commissioned by
- The Trevor Project
- Fielded
- Feb 18–19, 2022
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 2,210
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- Morning Consult online panel (opt-in)
- Mode
- online self-administered interviews
- Margin of error
- plus or minus 2 percentage points
- Weighting
- weighted to approximate a target sample of adults based on gender, educational attainment, age, race, and region
- Geography
- US national
Sources
Verification note. Field dates, sample, weighting and margin of error read from the methodology slide (p.3) of the March 2022 report PDF. Percentages transcribed from the per-item demographic charts (pp. 17-19), whose row order is printed alongside the values and whose Adults-row components reconcile exactly to the printed Total Support / Total Oppose figures. The release date is the PDF's own cover month (March 2022) rendered as 2022-03-01; the exact day was not retrieved. The fourth item in the summary chart on p.16, 'Parents should have the ultimate say over whether or not their transgender child receives gender-affirming medical care', has NO per-item breakdown page in this PDF, so it is deliberately omitted rather than guessed at from the stacked-bar chart. || Full 20-page Morning Consult analysis deck downloaded and text-extracted; wording, methodology and per-subgroup percentages read directly off the deck. Release date is approximate (deck is dated only 'March 2022'). Percentages for the 'Parents should have the ultimate say' item appear only in a stacked summary chart whose labels could not be unambiguously matched to values on text extraction, so that item is recorded with wording but no results. || Full Morning Consult report PDF downloaded and text-extracted in session. Question wording, the five-point response distributions, and the Total Support / Total Oppose crosstabs by party were read directly off the deck. MISSING: Morning Consult did not publish a margin of error or weighting statement in this deck.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (5)
access to gender-affirming hormone therapy for transgender minors with doctor and parent support
Do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements?
Do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements?: Transgender minors should have access to gender-affirming hormone therapy if it's recommended by their doctor and supported by their parents.
Total Support 55%Total Oppose 28%
Wording notes: conditions access on BOTH doctor recommendation AND parental support, which is a substantially more permissive test than an unqualified access item | sponsored by an LGBTQ youth suicide-prevention organization
tilts_affirming — Building doctor recommendation and parental consent into the stem pre-answers the two objections most often raised by restriction advocates, which raises agreement relative to a bare access item.
Subgroup figures (14)
access to puberty blockers for transgender minors with doctor and parent support
Do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements?
Do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements?: Transgender minors should have access to puberty blockers if it's recommended by their doctor and supported by their parents.
Total Support 52%Total Oppose 30%
Wording notes: conditions access on both doctor recommendation and parental support | 'puberty blockers' named without explanation of the treatment
tilts_affirming — Same doctor-plus-parent conditioning as the hormone item, which raises agreement relative to a bare access item.
Subgroup figures (6)
whether lawmakers should be able to outlaw gender-affirming care for minors against medical advice
Do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements?
Do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements?: Lawmakers should have the ability to outlaw gender-affirming medical care for minors even if such a ban is against the recommendation of doctors and major medical associations
Total Support 33%Total Oppose 45%
Wording notes: the 'even if such a ban is against the recommendation of doctors and major medical associations' clause supplies a counter-argument inside the stem | 22 percent selected don't know/no opinion
tilts_affirming — The appended clause invokes medical consensus against the proposition before the respondent answers, which is a one-sided argument embedded in the stem.
Subgroup figures (8)
banning classroom discussion of LGBTQ topics including gender identity
Do you support or oppose each of the following?
Do you support or oppose each of the following?: Banning classroom discussions about LGBTQ topics, including sexual orientation and gender identity, in school.
Wording notes: explicitly names gender identity inside an otherwise aggregate LGBTQ item | the restriction is the proposition, so 'oppose' is the affirming answer
neutral — States the ban plainly with no argument on either side.
Subgroup figures (12)
parental final say over a transgender child's gender-affirming medical care
Do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements?
Do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements? Parents should have the ultimate say over whether or not their transgender child receives gender-affirming medical care
Wording notes: 'ultimate say' is an absolute framing
unclear — reads neutrally, but 'ultimate say' can be endorsed by respondents on opposite sides of the underlying dispute