Methodology
- Pollster
- SurveyMonkey/Momentive commercial
- Sponsor
- Axios
- Commissioned by
- Axios
- Fielded
- Jul 2021
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- —
- Sample frame
- river/intercept
- Panel
- SurveyMonkey Audience / Momentive river sample
- Mode
- online - SurveyMonkey/Momentive river sample of adults recruited from users completing SurveyMonkey surveys; specific field dates and sample size not published with this release
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- not disclosed
- Geography
- US national
Sources
Verification note. Total and full party crosstab read directly from the underlying Datawrapper dataset embedded in the Axios story (chart CLWKH, published 2021-07-22); question stem taken from the chart headline. Neither Axios nor SurveyMonkey/Momentive published field dates, sample size, weighting or margin of error for this wave: the SurveyMonkey write-up page (axios-2021-olympics) reports other Olympics items from the same poll but carries no methodology statement, and the trans-athlete item does not appear on that page at all. Fielding month inferred only from the chart publication date (2021-07-22) and story date (2021-07-26) - day-level dates NOT recoverable.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
how transgender athletes should compete at the Olympics
Do you think that transgender athletes should compete against...
Wording reconstructed from: Datawrapper chart headline (chart id CLWKH) supplied by Axios from Momentive data; this is the chart's rendering of the stem, truncated with an ellipsis, not a topline transcription. Response options are verbatim from the chart's row labels.
Compete against others of the gender they were assigned at birth
39%
Compete against others of the gender with which they identify
20%
Not be allowed to compete
14%
Don't know
23%
Wording notes: offers an explicit 'not be allowed to compete at all' option, which most trans-athlete items omit | uses 'the gender they were assigned at birth' rather than 'birth sex' | explicit Don't know option offered
neutral — both affirming and restrictive alternatives are stated in parallel and a Don't know option is offered; the three-way format (identity / assigned-at-birth / barred entirely) separates exclusionary opinion from birth-sex-team opinion, which most two-way items conflate
Subgroup figures (12)