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NNNapolitan News Service (RMG Research)
Napolitan News Service Survey (transgender) · Mar 23–24, 2026 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Napolitan News Service (RMG Research) independent
- Sponsor
- Napolitan News Service
- Commissioned by
- Napolitan News Service Gold Circle Members
- Fielded
- Mar 23–24, 2026
- Population
- registered voters
- Sample size
- 1,000
- 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
- ±3.1 percentage points
- Weighting
- lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party
- Geography
- US national
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. Party and age figures shown here are the ones stated in prose in the two free news briefs ('Just 18% Want Biological Males in Women's Sports' and 'Just 16% Say Trans Women Should Be Housed in Women's Prisons'); the Republican 'Yes' share on the sports item was not stated and is recorded as null.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (5)
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
Subgroup figures (4)
whether trans women competing denies opportunities to cisgender women
Does allowing biological males to compete in women's sports deny opportunities for biological women to compete?
Wording notes: presupposes a zero-sum contest and asks only whether the loss occurs | 'biological males' / 'biological women' framing | no reciprocal item about opportunities denied to trans women
tilts_restrictive — the contested premise of the sports debate is built into the stem, so the affirming answer needs no supporting evidence and the counter-position has no place on the scale
Subgroup figures (3)
whether trans women should be allowed to use women's locker rooms, showers and bathrooms
Should biological males who identify as women be allowed to use the women's locker rooms, showers, and bathrooms?
Wording notes: 'biological males who identify as women' used throughout | bundles locker rooms, showers and bathrooms into a single item, leading with the most intimate setting | no counter-framing offered
loaded_terms — as with the sports item, only the restrictive description of trans women is offered; listing 'locker rooms, showers, and bathrooms' in that order front-loads the most privacy-salient settings before the most common one
Subgroup figures (4)
whether trans women convicted of crimes should be housed in men's or women's prisons
Suppose a biological male commits a crime, is arrested, convicted and is sentenced to jail. If biological men identify as women, should they be housed in a men's prison or a women's prison?
Men's prison
62%
Women's prison
16%
Not sure
23%
Wording notes: 'If biological men identify as women' casts identity as a conditional claim made by a convicted criminal | the crime is left unspecified, so respondents supply the worst case | no third option such as individualized assessment or protective housing
tilts_restrictive — opening with an unspecified crime and a conviction primes a threat frame before gender is mentioned, and omitting any individualized-assessment option forces a binary that no corrections policy actually uses
whether housing trans women in women's prisons puts female inmates at risk
If biological men who identify as women are housed in women's prisons, does that put female inmates at risk?
Wording notes: asks respondents to assess a risk claim with no evidence supplied and no reciprocal item on risk to trans inmates in men's prisons | asked immediately after the housing item, so it inherits its framing
tilts_restrictive — the danger runs in only one direction in this battery; the far better-documented risk to trans women housed in men's facilities is never put to respondents, so the pair measures only one side of the safety question