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NNNapolitan News Service (RMG Research)
Napolitan News Service Washington Statewide Survey · Jan 2–7, 2026 · US: Washington
Methodology
- Pollster
- Napolitan News Service (RMG Research) independent
- Sponsor
- Napolitan News Service
- Commissioned by
- Napolitan News Service Gold Circle Members
- Fielded
- Jan 2–7, 2026
- Population
- registered voters
- Sample size
- 800
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- RMG Research online panel
- Mode
- online; certain quotas applied and the sample lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage and political party to reflect the national population of Registered Voters
- Margin of error
- ±3.5 percentage points
- Weighting
- lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party
- Geography
- US: Washington
Sources
Verification note. Question wording and percentages transcribed directly from the free Napolitan News Service topline PDF. Full crosstabs are behind the Gold Circle Member paywall and were NOT retrieved, so no party breaks are recorded here except where the free news brief states them in prose. Favor/oppose totals for Q18 (74/15) are sums of the published four-point shares.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (3)
whether schools must notify parents when a child says they want to change gender
If a child informs his or her teacher of a desire to change gender, should the school be required to notify that child's parents?
Wording notes: asked directly after a bloc of parental-rights items about curriculum access and opt-outs, which primes the parental-authority frame | no mention of the safety rationale for non-disclosure policies
tilts_restrictive — the item itself is plainly worded, but its placement at the end of a parental-rights battery and the absence of any reference to the child's safety make the notification answer the path of least resistance
whether trans women should be allowed to compete in women's sports
Should biological males who identify as women be allowed to compete in women's sports events?
Wording notes: 'biological males who identify as women' is the restrictive-side term of art and the only descriptor offered | no counter-framing or competing consideration offered | yes/no rather than a scaled item, which suppresses intensity
loaded_terms — the stem uses only the opponents' description of trans women ('biological males who identify as women') and asks a bare permission question with no countervailing consideration; the referent is also unbounded as to level of competition, age, or medical status
Washington requirement that student athletes' physical exams declare biological sex for girls' sports eligibility
Currently, before being allowed to participate in sports, Washington requires all student athletes to have a physical exam that includes a declaration of the student's biological sex. This exam is used to determine whether a student can participate in girls' sports. Do you favor or oppose this requirement?
Favor (total) 74%
Wording notes: describes the requirement as already in place ('Currently... Washington requires'), which invites status-quo endorsement | the exam is presented as routine sports physical paperwork rather than as an eligibility screen | asked immediately after the trans athlete permission item, which anchors it
tilts_restrictive — status-quo framing plus placement right after a sports-exclusion item; the second sentence supplies the purpose of the exam only after the first has established it as ordinary medical routine