river/intercept

NBC News/SurveyMonkey

NBC News Stay Tuned Poll · Apr 11–20, 2025 · US national

Methodology

Pollster
NBC News/SurveyMonkey media
Sponsor
NBC News
Fielded
Apr 11–20, 2025
Population
adults
Sample size
19,682
Sample frame
river/intercept
Panel
SurveyMonkey
Mode
online - powered by SurveyMonkey; respondents selected from the more than two million people who take surveys on SurveyMonkey each day
Margin of error
±2.2 percentage points among all adults
Weighting
weighted; reported percentages exclude item non-response and round to the nearest percentage point (full weighting detail not given in the topline)
Geography
US national
Base notes
19,682 adults aged 18 and over, including 2,230 adults aged 18-29

Sources

Verification note. Wording, national total and full age breaks read directly from the NBC News Stay Tuned topline PDFs (Q32 in both the April 25 and April 27 releases). Methodology paragraph read from the April 24 release. No party crosstab is published for this item.

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

Questions asked (2)

Sportsagree/disagreein a trend series
whether transgender women athletes should compete in female sports

Do you agree or disagree that transgender women athletes should be permitted to compete in female sports?

Agree 25%75% Disagree

Wording notes: agree/disagree format is vulnerable to acquiescence bias | binary with no middle, no 'don't know' and no degree qualifiers - results sum to 100 | asks only about trans women, not trans men or trans athletes generally | asked at the very end of the questionnaire, adjacent to vote-choice and party-ID items

tilts_restrictive — A bare agree/disagree with no middle category and no 'don't know' forces the roughly one-fifth of the public with no settled view into one of two camps; because the proposition asserts permission, disagreement is the low-effort answer. Placement inside the partisan-identity block may also prime a partisan frame.

Subgroup figures (8)

age

GroupAgreeDisagree
18-2936%64%
30-4428%72%
45-6418%82%
65+22%78%
Contact & populationmultiple responsein a trend series
self-identification as transgender among U.S. adults

What is your current gender? [SELECT ALL THAT APPLY]

Female
50%
Male
48%
Transgender
1%
Nonbinary
1%
Not listed
0%

Wording notes: select-all-that-apply | asked after a separate 'sex assigned at birth' item

neutral — Standard two-step gender measure.

Subgroup figures (5)

age

GroupTransgenderNonbinary
18-293%4%
30-441%—
45-640%—
65+1%—

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