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Redfield & Wilton Strategies US national poll for Newsweek - criminalising misgendering · Jul 6, 2023 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Redfield & Wilton Strategies commercial
- Sponsor
- Newsweek
- Commissioned by
- Newsweek
- Fielded
- Jul 6, 2023
- Population
- eligible voters
- Sample size
- 1,500
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- not disclosed
- Mode
- not disclosed in Newsweek's write-up; Redfield & Wilton fields online panel surveys
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- not disclosed
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- 1,500 eligible voters in the United States.
Sources
Verification note. Percentages and the 6 July 2023 field date come from Newsweek's write-up of the R&W tables as returned by search. Only age crosstabs were reported; the total, the response-option labels and the verbatim stem were not retrieved, and the sample size for this wave is unknown. || RESOLVED - the missing Total row, the response-option labels and the verbatim statement are all now recovered, and TWO additional items are captured. newsweek.com was retrieved in full via curl this session. CONFIRMED: 'The poll of 1,500 eligible voters in the United States was conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies, for Newsweek, on July 6', which supplies the sample size the previous record lacked. The verbatim statement is quoted by Newsweek in quotation marks: 'referring to someone by the wrong gender pronoun (he/him, she/her) should be a criminal offense'. THE TOTAL, previously missing, is 19 percent agree, 65 percent disagree, 12 percent neither agree nor disagree, 4 percent don't know - which reverses the impression left by the stored age-only rows: Americans overall reject criminalising misgendering more than three to one, and it is only the 25-34 and 35-44 bands that tilt the other way. The 18-24 band (33 agree / 48 disagree) is also added. Two pronoun-behaviour items from the same fielding are newly captured with full distributions. STILL MISSING: mode, weighting and margin of error, which Newsweek does not publish. WHAT TO TRY NEXT: Redfield & Wilton's own research archive tables for the 6 July 2023 USA poll.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (3)
whether misgendering should be a criminal offense
Referring to someone by the wrong gender pronoun (he/him, she/her) should be a criminal offense
Wording notes: tests a maximalist policy (criminal offense) that no U.S. jurisdiction has enacted | does not distinguish deliberate from accidental misgendering
loaded_terms — asking about criminalising speech with no intent qualifier tests an extreme version of the policy; agreement here is often read as endorsement of far milder measures
Subgroup figures (7)
whether the respondent would use she/her for a transgender woman on request
[stem not published] whether the respondent would call someone who was previously male "she/her" if requested
Wording reconstructed from: Newsweek's description of the Redfield & Wilton results, quoting the response labels
Would call them she/her if requested
37%
Depends on the person
28%
Would continue to use he/his
17%
Don't know
17%
Wording notes: describes the person as 'previously male' rather than as a transgender woman | offers a conditional 'depends on the person' option taken by more than a quarter
loaded_terms — 'someone who was previously male' frames the person by birth sex rather than by current identity, which is not symmetric with how the requested pronoun is described
whether the respondent would use he/him for a transgender man on request
[stem not published] whether the respondent would refer to someone born female who wanted to be referred to as "he/him" that way
Wording reconstructed from: Newsweek's description of the Redfield & Wilton results
Would follow the request and use he/him
38%
Depends on the person
27%
Would refuse
18%
Wording notes: describes the person as 'born female' rather than as a transgender man
loaded_terms — same birth-sex framing as the companion item