Siena College Research Institute, May 2025: poll record

Siena College Research Institute

Siena College Poll (New York State), May 2025 · May 12–15, 2025 · US: New York

Methodology

Pollster: Siena College Research Institute academic
Sponsor: Siena College Research Institute
Fielded: May 12–15, 2025
Population: registered voters
Sample size: 805
Sample frame: mixed-mode probability
Panel: Cint (proprietary online panel component)
Mode: telephone + text-to-web + online panel - 805 respondents: 308 contacted through a dual frame (landline and cell phone) mode, 196 of them completing via text to web, and 301 drawn from a proprietary online panel (Cint); telephone interviews in English, youngest-person-in-household selection
Margin of error: +/- 4.3 percentage points, including design effects resulting from weighting
Weighting: weighted to Census Bureau 2023 ACS estimates for New York State on age, region, race/ethnicity, education and gender, and to current NYS Board of Elections party registration patterns
Geography: US: New York

Sources

Verification note. Q29 wording, response options and crosstab columns read directly from the SNY0525 crosstabs PDF (page 6); methodology paragraph from the May 2025 release PDF.

Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.

Questions asked (1)

Sportsforced choicein a trend series

statewide mandate vs. local control on transgender girls in girls' school sports

Which of the following views comes closest to your position regarding transgender girls and sports in schools:

All school districts should prohibit transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams

46%

All school districts should decide themselves whether or not to prohibit transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams

23%

All school districts should be required to allow transgender girls to play on girls sports teams

22%

Don't know/Refused

Wording notes: offers an explicit local-control middle option | restrictive option listed first in the crosstab ordering

neutral — three policy positions (statewide prohibition / local option / statewide requirement to allow) are each stated in full and symmetric form; no loaded terms

Subgroup figures (32)

party

Group	All school districts should prohibit transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams	All school districts should decide themselves whether or not to prohibit transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams	All school districts should be required to allow transgender girls to play on girls sports teams	Don't know/Refused
Dem	32%	26%	31%	11%
Rep	68%	18%	11%	3%
Ind / Oth	54%	22%	15%	9%

ideology

Group	All school districts should prohibit transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams	All school districts should decide themselves whether or not to prohibit transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams	All school districts should be required to allow transgender girls to play on girls sports teams	Don't know/Refused
Liberal	21%	23%	45%	12%
Moderate	49%	29%	15%	8%
Conservative	68%	14%	11%	6%

gender

Group	All school districts should prohibit transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams	All school districts should decide themselves whether or not to prohibit transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams	All school districts should be required to allow transgender girls to play on girls sports teams	Don't know/Refused
Male	50%	22%	21%	7%
Female	44%	23%	23%	10%

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