Methodology
- Pollster
- Siena College Research Institute academic
- Sponsor
- Siena College Research Institute
- Fielded
- Apr 15–17, 2024
- Population
- registered voters
- Sample size
- 806
- Sample frame
- mixed-mode probability
- Panel
- Cint (proprietary online panel component)
- Mode
- mixed mode - dual-frame landline and cell phone telephone with live interviewer, some cell interviews initiated by text to a furnished URL, plus proprietary online panel (Cint)
- Margin of error
- +/- 4.1 percentage points including the design effects resulting from weighting
- Weighting
- weighted to match estimates for New York State's population using the Census Bureau's 2023 American Community Survey on age, region, race/ethnicity, education and gender, and weighted to match current patterns of party registration using data from the New York State Board of Elections
- Geography
- US: New York
- Base notes
- 517 respondents contacted through a dual-frame landline and cell phone mode (including 50 cell interviews initiated via text and completed through a furnished URL); 289 respondents drawn from a proprietary online panel (Cint)
Sources
Verification note. Question wording, preamble and rotation note copied verbatim from the Siena crosstab PDF (Q29); strongly/somewhat support and oppose figures and all party, gender, ideology, region, age and income breaks read directly from the same crosstab table. Topline and party figures independently cross-checked against the narrative text of the Siena press release (66-27% overall; Democrats 52-38, Republicans 83-15, independents 77-16). Note Siena reposted this release and crosstab in July 2025 under an updated-methodology filename; the fielding is unchanged.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
requiring high school athletes to compete only with others of the sex they were assigned at birth
Now, I'm going to mention some proposals that are being discussed in Congress and some state legislatures. For each, I'd like you to tell me if you strongly support, somewhat support, somewhat oppose or strongly oppose each of the proposals. {Q29-Q35 ROTATED]
Requiring high school athletes to only compete with others of the same sex that they were assigned at birth
Wording notes: item is a bare policy label with no counter-argument or opposing frame | does not use the word 'transgender' anywhere in the item | restriction is the thing being supported, so 'support' is the restrictive direction | asked within a rotated battery of seven unrelated proposals
tilts_restrictive — The item never names transgender people, so respondents endorse an abstract 'same sex assigned at birth' rule rather than an exclusion applied to an identified group; the single-statement support/oppose format supplies no opposing consideration, and the restrictive policy occupies the agree side, both of which tend to inflate measured support relative to a two-sided forced choice such as the OVBC or Ipsos constructions.
Subgroup figures (51)
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