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PRRI American Values Atlas September 2022 wave (LGBTQ module) · Sep 2022 – Sep 30, 2022 · US national
Data flag. re-sourced: PRRI's own 2022 AVA topline; the 'Sept. 2022' row is 47/29/11/9
Methodology
- Pollster
- PRRI independent
- Sponsor
- PRRI
- Fielded
- Sep 2022 – Sep 30, 2022
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- —
- Sample frame
- probability panel
- Panel
- Ipsos KnowledgePanel
- Mode
- online, self-administered - Ipsos KnowledgePanel (probability, address-based sampling from the USPS Delivery Sequence File), supplemented with Ipsos opt-in panel respondents calibrated to the KnowledgePanel weights to reach minimum sample sizes in smaller states
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- weighted by PRRI to national population parameters; see the topline's methodology section
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- Monthly AVA wave; PRRI publishes only pooled annual n and MOE. This is the first PRRI fielding of the gender-affirming-care item.
Sources
Verification note. Bathroom and nondiscrimination from the 2025 AVA topline trend tables; gender-affirming-care from the 2024 AVA topline Q10d trend table. || WORDING RECOVERY SWEEP. Item text and the Sept. 2022 column read from PRRI's 2025 AVA LGBTQ topline (Q12d), which prints this stem above a trend running back to Aug. 2016. NOTE: the 2025 topline labels the middle categories 'Somewhat favor'/'Somewhat oppose' where the 2021 topline labelled the identical percentages 'Favor'/'Oppose' - PRRI relabelled the scale in its own documents.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (5)
LGBT nondiscrimination protections in jobs, public accommodations and housing (item explicitly names transgender people)
Q12. Do you favor or oppose each of the following?
Laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.
Favor 29%
Wording notes: bundles transgender people with gay, lesbian and bisexual people in one item | three policy domains combined in one question (jobs, public accommodations, housing)
neutral — symmetric favor/oppose scale, no loaded terms; the design limitation is that it is double-barreled across three policy domains and four identity groups, so transgender-specific support cannot be isolated
laws requiring restroom use matching sex assigned at birth ('bathroom bills')
Q12. Do you favor or oppose each of the following?
Laws that require transgender individuals to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth rather than their current gender identity
Favor 23%
Wording notes: uses 'sex at birth' against 'current gender identity' | policy stated as a restriction the respondent favors or opposes
neutral — both poles of the policy are named; 'current gender identity' can imply impermanence but the alternative is stated symmetrically
laws preventing parents from allowing a minor to receive gender-transition medical care
Q10. 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.
Favor 17%
Wording notes: frames the ban as constraining parents rather than minors or providers | does not name specific interventions (puberty blockers, hormones, surgery) | 'medical care for a gender transition' rather than 'gender-affirming care'
tilts_affirming — the parental-authority frame ('prevent parents from allowing') suppresses support for restriction relative to wordings that foreground the minor or the specific medical procedure; PRRI's readings run notably less restrictive than pollsters who ask about 'gender transition medical treatment for minors' directly
belief that there are only two genders vs. a range of gender identities
When it comes to gender, do you ...
Feel strongly that there are only two genders, man or woman
44%
Think there is a range of many gender identities, but do not feel strongly about it
22%
Think there are only two genders, but do not feel strongly about it
18%
Feel strongly that there is a range of many possible gender identities
13%
Skipped/Refused
3%
Only two genders (net) 62%Range of gender identities (net) 35%
Wording notes: strength of view built into the answer set | no middle or 'depends' option
neutral — the two positions are stated in parallel with matched intensity gradations
knows someone who is transgender
Do you know someone who:
is transgender
No
65%
Yes, another acquaintance
21%
Yes, close friend
5%
Yes, family member
5%
Yes, myself
1%
Wording notes: 'Do you know someone who' stem is broader than PRRI's pre-2021 'close friend or family member' wording
neutral — factual contact item