Transgender Polling Archive
river/intercept

NBC News/SurveyMonkey

NBC News Decision Desk Poll · Jan 27, 2026 – Feb 6, 2026 · US national

Methodology

Pollster
NBC News/SurveyMonkey media
Sponsor
NBC News
Fielded
Jan 27, 2026 – Feb 6, 2026
Population
adults
Sample size
21,995
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
not captured in the extracted portion of the topline
Weighting
weighted; reported percentages exclude item non-response and round to the nearest percentage point
Geography
US national

Sources

Verification note. Wording, sample size and percentages read directly from the topline PDF (Q45 and the methodology paragraph). This wave carried no trans-policy opinion item.

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

Questions asked (1)

Contact & populationmultiple responsein a trend series
self-identification as transgender among U.S. adults

What is your current gender?

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

Wording notes: asked after a separate 'sex assigned at birth' item

neutral — Standard two-step gender measure.

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