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Navigator Research (GSG/GBAO)
Navigator Research June #1 2023 (study 39538) - "Anti-Transgender Laws Seen as Attempt to Control Americans' Rights and Freedoms" · Jun 2–5, 2023 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Navigator Research (GSG/GBAO) partisan_d
- Sponsor
- Navigator Research
- Commissioned by
- Navigator Research (Global Strategy Group and GBAO)
- Fielded
- Jun 2–5, 2023
- Population
- registered voters
- Sample size
- 1,373
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- not disclosed
- Mode
- online - respondents recruited from an opt-in online panel vendor and verified against a voter file
- Margin of error
- ±3.1 percentage points
- Weighting
- sample composition matched to the national registered-voter population across demographic variables
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- 1,373 total interviews with a 1,001 base; oversamples of 265 African Americans, 234 Hispanics, 94 AAPI, and 254 pure independents. Q67 and Q68 were each split-sampled into A and B forms.
Sources
Verification note. Full 48-page Navigator topline/banner PDF read directly, including party and race breaks. This is one of the few Navigator waves for which the full annotated topline is posted rather than only a slide deck.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (4)
knowing a transgender person
As far as you know, do any of your friends, family, or co-workers consider themselves transgender?
Wording notes: 'as far as you know' and 'consider themselves transgender' phrasing | no don't-know option
neutral — factual contact item; 'consider themselves' is slightly distancing but is applied to the LGB item identically
Subgroup figures (7)
awareness of state legislation on transgender people
How much have you seen, read, or heard about some states in the U.S. passing or debating laws regarding transgender people?
Some
33%
A little
23%
Nothing
23%
A lot
21%
A LOT/SOME (NET) 54%
Wording notes: identical wording to the June 2024 wave, enabling a two-point trend
neutral — standard awareness item
Subgroup figures (3)
message test - 'protect kids from woke ideology' vs. rights-and-freedoms or trust-families rebuttals
[SPLIT A] Which side do you agree with more? - Those who say we need to protect kids from woke ideology and ban sex change hormones and gender reassignment surgery for kids - Those who say we need to protect the rights and freedoms of transgender youth, their families, and their doctors to seek and provide medically necessary care and to live free from discrimination [SPLIT B] Which side do you agree with more? - Those who say we should trust families and their doctors to make health care decisions for themselves and their children, and not allow politicians and the government to insert themselves into those decisions - Those who say we need to protect kids from woke ideology and ban sex change hormones and gender reassignment surgery for kids
Trust families and their doctors to make health care decisions
56%
Protect kids from woke ideology and ban sex change hormones and gender reassignment surgery for kids
51%
Protect the rights and freedoms of transgender youth, their families, and their doctors
49%
Like the American Medical Association - gender-affirming care is medically necessary, evidence-based, and improves health
49%
Opponents of transgender youth are stirring up panic in order to divide us, score political points, and maintain their power
49%
Protect kids from woke ideology and ban sex change hormones and gender reassignment surgery for kids
44%
Wording notes: restrictive statement uses 'woke ideology', 'sex change hormones', and 'gender reassignment surgery' | no don't-know option - the two sides always sum to 100 | the restrictive statement's position in the pair is rotated between splits
loaded_terms — this is message development rather than opinion measurement: the restrictive side is written in its most inflammatory form and held constant while the progressive rebuttal is varied. The finding - that a rights framing ties at 49-51 but a trust-families framing wins 56-44 - is about message construction, not about underlying opinion.
Subgroup figures (13)
DeSantis vs. Disney over the "Don't Say Gay" law
As you may know, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis passed a "Don't Say Gay" bill prohibiting teachers from talking about sexual orientation or gender identity in schools, which Disney spoke out against.
As you may know, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis passed a "Don't Say Gay" bill prohibiting teachers from talking about sexual orientation or gender identity in schools, which Disney spoke out against. As a result, Ron DeSantis stripped Disney of its long-standing special tax status in Florida and threatened to build a state prison next to Disney World in Florida. Disney is now suing Ron DeSantis as a result. Which side do you agree with more?
Disney is in the right (strongly)
36%
Ron DeSantis is in the right (strongly)
18%
Disney is in the right (somewhat)
14%
Ron DeSantis is in the right (somewhat)
14%
Don't know enough to say
17%
Wording notes: uses the opponents' nickname "Don't Say Gay" rather than the statute's own name | the preamble narrates DeSantis's retaliation, including the prison threat, before asking
tilts_affirming — the preamble stacks the most unsympathetic facts about DeSantis's conduct (stripping tax status, threatening a prison) before the question, and labels the law with its opponents' nickname
Subgroup figures (4)