probability panel
NORC (AmeriSpeak)
MAP: New Survey Reveals Dramatic Changes for LGBTQ Adults Since November 2024 · May 29, 2025 – Jun 13, 2025 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- NORC (AmeriSpeak) independent
- Sponsor
- Movement Advancement Project
- Commissioned by
- Movement Advancement Project
- Fielded
- May 29, 2025 – Jun 13, 2025
- Population
- LGBTQ adults 18+, with a transgender and nonbinary subsample
- Sample size
- 1,055
- Sample frame
- probability panel
- Panel
- NORC AmeriSpeak
- Mode
- online survey on NORC's AmeriSpeak probability-based panel; households recruited by U.S. mail, email, telephone and in-person field interviewers
- Margin of error
- not published in the brief
- Weighting
- AmeriSpeak panel weights; MAP states all differences shown between all LGBTQ respondents and transgender/nonbinary respondents are statistically significant unless otherwise noted
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- 1,055 LGBTQ adults including 111 transgender and nonbinary adults. A subgroup of n=255 LGBTQ respondents who had moved or considered moving is used for the relocation-factors question.
Sources
Verification note. One of the few probability-based surveys of LGBTQ adults with a trans/nonbinary breakout, though n=111 for that subgroup means those percentages carry a wide error band that MAP does not quantify. Percentages read from MAP's own brief; several are shown only in figure images (Figures 1-4) whose underlying values MAP does not print in text, so those are omitted here rather than estimated from the graphics.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (3)
major life decisions taken since November 2024 in response to LGBTQ-related politics or laws
Since November 2024, the majority (57%) of LGBTQ people - including 84% of transgender and nonbinary people - have made significant life decisions or taken steps in response to LGBTQ-related politics or laws. These include considering or actually moving to a different state; considering or actually finding a different job; attempting to update legal name or gender markers on identity documents; crossing state lines to receive medical care, and much more.
Wording reconstructed from: MAP brief, 'Recent LGBTQ-Related Politics Lead to Major Life Decisions'. Report restatement of a multi-item battery; MAP did not publish the literal stems.
Made significant life decisions or took steps in response to LGBTQ-related politics or laws
57%
Considered moving to a different state
25%
Taken steps to be less visible as an LGBTQ person in their community
24%
Joined or started participating in LGBTQ community or recreational opportunities
21%
Joined or started participating in LGBTQ advocacy or activism
20%
Considered finding a different job or place of work
18%
Taken steps to be more visible as an LGBTQ person in their community
18%
Actually changed jobs or workplaces since November 2024
11%
Actually moved to a different state since November 2024
5%
Wording notes: battery covers only actions taken in response to politics, with no counterfactual or comparison population
unclear — Literal wording unavailable. As restated, the stem attributes the actions to 'LGBTQ-related politics or laws', which is neutral phrasing, but it does not offer respondents a way to say the politics had no bearing on a decision they made anyway.
Subgroup figures (9)
Surveys of trans peopleparaphrasedmultiple response
negative experiences related to being LGBTQ since the November 2024 election
60% of LGBTQ people, including 82% of transgender and nonbinary people, report that they or an immediate family member have had at least one negative experience related to being LGBTQ since the November 2024 election... a majority of transgender and nonbinary respondents report that, since November 2024 alone, they or an immediate family member have been discriminated against or mistreated by another person due to being LGBTQ (56%), or have been harassed online about being LGBTQ (53%).
Wording reconstructed from: MAP brief, 'Mistreatment and Other Negative Experiences Related to Being LGBTQ'. Report restatement.
They or an immediate family member had at least one negative experience related to being LGBTQ since the election
60%
Wording notes: combines the respondent and immediate family members into one referent, which raises the incidence relative to self-only items
unclear — Literal wording unavailable; the 'you or an immediate family member' referent is a real design choice that inflates prevalence relative to self-report items, which MAP does not flag.
Subgroup figures (3)
Political salienceparaphrasedother
whether federal, state and local politics negatively impacted overall well-being in 2025
transgender and nonbinary people are more likely (84%) than LGBTQ people in general (73%) to report that state politics specifically harmed their well-being... while transgender and LGBTQ respondents overall report similar rates of being generally negatively impacted by federal politics this year (88% and 86%, respectively), 48% of transgender respondents say they were negatively impacted 'a lot' compared to 37% of all LGBTQ respondents.
Wording reconstructed from: MAP brief, 'Harms to Health and Well-Being' (discussion of Figure 4). Report restatement.
Federal politics negatively impacted well-being 'a lot'
37%
State politics negatively impacted well-being (net) 73%Federal politics negatively impacted well-being (net) 86%
Wording notes: asks only about negative impact, offering no route to report a positive or null effect other than the bottom of the scale
tilts_affirming — As restated, the item asks how much politics 'negatively impacted' well-being, which presupposes the direction of the effect.
Subgroup figures (3)