what students should learn about gender identity
Which of the following comes closest to your view about what students should learn in school about gender identity? Students should learn that whether someone is a boy or a girl can be different from the sex they were assigned at birth / Students should learn that whether someone is a boy or a girl is determined by the sex they were assigned at birth / Students should not learn about this in school
Wording reconstructed from: reconstructed from the Pew Feb. 2024 report's stated option labels; the exact topline text was not retrieved
Should not learn about this in school
48%
Gender is determined by sex assigned at birth
26%
Gender can be different from sex assigned at birth
25%
Wording notes: offers an explicit 'should not be taught' option, which draws roughly half the sample
neutral — two substantive positions plus a genuine opt-out; symmetric phrasing