PRRIPRRI 2022 survey (gender-identity trend fielding) · Jan 2022 – Dec 31, 2022 · US national
Verification note. 2022 values (62% only two / 35% many) retrieved from the trend chart in PRRI's May 2023 report; exact field dates, sample size and margin of error not retrieved, so dates are recorded at year precision || WORDING RECOVERY SWEEP AND MATERIAL CORRECTION. Stem and options are PRRI's verbatim Q1 four-point scale, not the two-option forced choice previously recorded. NOTE ON DATE: PRRI's trend labels this fielding 'Sept. 2022'; the database record is dated 2022-01-01, which appears to be wrong. || 2022 baseline figures recovered from the trend statements in PRRI's 2024 AVA report ('Opposition to these laws has declined by 4 percentage points among Americans (53%) since 2022, when the question was first asked'; Democrats 75%, Republicans 36%, independents 50%). Only the OPPOSE side was published in that trend text, so the favor column is absent. Sample size and exact field window for the 2022 wave not retrieved.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Which comes closer to your view: there are only two gender identities, man and woman, or there is a range of many possible gender identities?
Wording reconstructed from: reconstructed from PRRI's description of its trend item
Wording notes: forced binary with no middle option
neutral — both positions stated
[FLIP ORDER 1-4;4-1]
When it comes to gender, do you ...
Wording notes: four-point strength-of-belief scale, not a two-way forced choice | option order flipped for half the sample [FLIP ORDER 1-4;4-1] | 'only two genders, man or woman' vs 'a range of many possible gender identities'
neutral — symmetric ladder: two restrictive options and two affirming options, each split by strength, with order rotation; the design measures intensity as well as direction
How much do you favor or oppose each of the following? [RANDOMIZE]:
Laws that prevent parents from allowing their child to receive medical care for a gender transition
Wording notes: restrictive policy is the 'favor' pole | frames the ban as acting on parents, not on providers
neutral — policy stated plainly in both directions
Laws that would prevent parents from allowing their child to receive medical care for a gender transition [favor or oppose]
Wording reconstructed from: Described in PRRI's 2024 AVA report as the same item first asked in 2022; stem not reproduced.
Wording notes: BAN framing (favor = restrict) | restricted party is parents | no treatment named | no age threshold beyond 'child'
neutral — Same item as 2024. The 2022-to-2024 movement (53% to 49% opposition, with Republicans falling 36% to 30% and Democrats 75% to 70%) is one of the few genuine like-for-like trends on youth medical care in the corpus, and it moved in the restrictive direction in both parties.
| Group | Oppose |
|---|---|
| Democrats | 75% |
| Independents | 50% |
| Republicans | 36% |
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