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Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center survey of U.S. teens on gender identity · Sep 18, 2024 – Oct 10, 2024 · US national

Methodology

Pollster
Pew Research Center independent
Sponsor
Pew Research Center
Fielded
Sep 18, 2024 – Oct 10, 2024
Population
teens ages 13-17 living with a parent
Sample size
1,391
Sample frame
probability panel
Panel
Ipsos KnowledgePanel
Mode
online self-administered - Ipsos KnowledgePanel, teens recruited through their parents
Margin of error
not disclosed
Geography
US national
Base notes
Teens were surveyed via a parent who is a member of the Ipsos KnowledgePanel.

Sources

Verification note. Percentages read from the Pew short-read charts. Full verbatim question wording not published in the short read; MOE not stated on the page.

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

Questions asked (3)

Contact & populationparaphrasedotherin a trend series
knows someone who is transgender / nonbinary

Do you know someone who is transgender? Do you know someone who is nonbinary?

Wording reconstructed from: Pew short read, Jan. 24, 2025 - chart labels only; Pew's full topline wording not retrieved

Knows someone who is transgender
36%
Knows someone who is nonbinary
28%

neutral — simple contact/acquaintance item

Identity beliefsparaphrasedforced choicein a trend series
whether gender is determined by sex assigned at birth

Which comes closer to your view, even if neither is exactly right? Whether a person is a man or a woman is determined by the sex they were assigned at birth / A person can be a man or a woman even if that is different from the sex they were assigned at birth

Wording reconstructed from: Pew short read, Jan. 24, 2025 - reconstructed from Pew's standard trend item; verbatim topline not retrieved

Gender is determined by sex assigned at birth
69%
Gender can be different from sex assigned at birth
30%

Wording notes: forced binary choice, no middle option

neutral — both alternatives stated symmetrically

Pronouns & languageparaphrased4-point scalein a trend series
comfort using gender-neutral pronouns for someone who asks

How comfortable, if at all, would you feel using a gender-neutral pronoun, such as "they," to refer to someone if they asked you to?

Wording reconstructed from: Pew short read, Jan. 24, 2025 - chart label paraphrase; verbatim topline not retrieved

Uncomfortable
50%
Comfortable
48%

neutral — standard comfort scale

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