Rasmussen Reports national survey on transgender students and gender transition procedures · Aug 2024 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Rasmussen Reports commercial
- Sponsor
- Rasmussen Reports
- Fielded
- Aug 2024
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- —
- Sample frame
- IVR
- Mode
- national telephone and online survey; field work conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Geography
- US national
Sources
Verification note. Percentages (58 oppose incl. 47 strongly, 30 support, 12 unsure) taken from The Washington Stand's report of the Rasmussen release, retrieved in session. NOT VERIFIED against Rasmussen's own release: rasmussenreports.com puts the numeric detail of these items behind a subscriber wall (confirmed in session on the adjacent June 2024 release via the Wayback Machine, where the survey text is truncated at 'Become a Rasmussen Reader'). MISSING: exact field dates, sample size, margin of error, and the fielded stem. Mode and vendor recorded from Rasmussen's standard methodology note on the archived adjacent release.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
children under 18; 'gender transition procedures' enumerated as puberty blockers, hormone drugs and surgeries; ACCESS/support framing but with restrictive-coded vocabulary
[Do you support or oppose] gender transition procedures - such as puberty blockers, hormone drugs, and surgeries - for children under 18
Wording reconstructed from: The Washington Stand's description of the Rasmussen Reports release, Aug. 15, 2024; Rasmussen's own question wording page is subscriber-gated.
Strongly oppose
47%
Not sure
12%
Oppose (net) 58%Support (net) 30%
Wording notes: 'procedures' and 'hormone drugs' are restrictive-coded terms | bundles blockers, hormones and surgeries | explicit under-18 threshold | explicit not-sure option, taken by 12% | support framing rather than ban framing, so the 58% is opposition to the care, not support for a prohibition
loaded_terms — Rasmussen's house style consistently frames these items in movement-conservative vocabulary ('transgender agenda' is the headline on the adjacent release), and the treatment list is bundled to surgery. Worth keeping in the file for exactly that reason, but the paywalled toplines mean the wording cannot be checked, which is itself the finding.