probability panel
Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center American Trends Panel Wave 91 (June 2021) · Jun 14–27, 2021 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Pew Research Center independent
- Sponsor
- Pew Research Center
- Fielded
- Jun 14–27, 2021
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 10,606
- Sample frame
- probability panel
- Panel
- Pew Research Center American Trends Panel (address-based recruitment)
- Mode
- self-administered online survey (tablets and internet provided to panelists without home internet)
- Margin of error
- ±1.5 percentage points
- Geography
- US national
Sources
Verification note. Percentages read directly from Pew's Wave 91 'Gender and pronouns' final topline PDF. Party crosstabs were not printed on that topline; registered-voter party figures for TRANSGEND1 in June 2021 come from Pew's June 2024 trend chart.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (4)
whether gender is determined by sex assigned at birth
Which statement comes closer to your views, even if neither is exactly right?
Whether someone is a man or a woman is determined by the sex they were assigned at birth
56%
Someone can be a man or a woman even if that is different from the sex they were assigned at birth
41%
No answer
3%
Wording notes: response options randomized | no middle option
neutral — two symmetric statements, order randomized
Subgroup figures (5)
knows a transgender person
Next, we'd like to ask you about people who are transgender, that is, people who identify as a gender that is different from the sex they were assigned at birth, like a person born male who now identifies as a woman.
Thinking about the people you know, including yourself, do you personally know anyone who is transgender, or not?
Wording notes: definition of transgender supplied in preamble
neutral — factual contact item
knows someone who uses gender-neutral pronouns
Some people who don't identify as either a man or a woman may prefer that others use gender-neutral pronouns such as "they" instead of "he" or "she" when referring to them.
Do you personally know anyone who prefers that others use gender-neutral pronouns such as "they" instead of "he" or "she" when referring to them?
Wording notes: in 2021 asked of all adults; in 2018 asked only of those who had heard about gender-neutral pronouns
neutral — factual contact item
comfort using a gender-neutral pronoun on request
How comfortable, if at all, would you feel using a gender-neutral pronoun to refer to someone if they asked you to do so?
Very comfortable
27%
Very uncomfortable
25%
Somewhat uncomfortable
24%
Somewhat comfortable
23%
No answer
1%
Wording notes: response option order reversed for a random half | no middle/neutral option
neutral — balanced 4-point comfort scale with order rotation