Do you favor or oppose allowing transgender students to participate on the sports teams of the gender they identify with, letting biological males, for example, play girls' sports?
Wording notes: the stem appends an interpretive clause - 'letting biological males, for example, play girls' sports' - which recharacterizes the policy before the respondent answers | 'biological males' used to denote trans girls
tilts_restrictive — the trailing clause is the whole design: it converts a neutral eligibility question into a statement about 'biological males' in 'girls' sports'. When Rasmussen dropped this clause in February 2021 the favor share went UP (29% to 32%) despite the intervening news environment, which is the direction one would expect if the clause suppresses support