river/intercept
SMSurveyMonkey/Momentive
The 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll (April 2025) · Apr 11–21, 2025 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- SurveyMonkey/Momentive commercial
- Sponsor
- The 19th News
- Commissioned by
- The 19th News
- Fielded
- Apr 11–21, 2025
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 5,032
- Sample frame
- river/intercept
- Panel
- SurveyMonkey
- Mode
- online - self-administered SurveyMonkey survey, respondents intercepted after completing other SurveyMonkey surveys
- Margin of error
- error estimate of plus or minus 1.5 percentage points (non-probability survey)
- Weighting
- weighted for age, race, sex, education and geography using the Census Bureau's American Community Survey to reflect the demographic composition of the United States aged 18 and over
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- National sample of U.S. adults 18+, selected from the more than two million people who take surveys on SurveyMonkey each day.
Sources
Verification note. PARTIALLY VERIFIED. Field dates, sample size and error estimate confirmed. Topline percentages retrieved from search-result summaries of The 19th's write-up and from the Alabama Reflector syndication; both 19thnews.org and alabamareflector.com returned HTTP 402/403 to direct fetch, and SurveyMonkey's Curiosity page for this specific April 2025 wave was not located. The literal question wording and the full response-option list were NOT obtained - the wording stored here is reconstructed from the reported response categories and must be treated as a paraphrase. Party breakdowns beyond the Democratic figure were not retrieved. TO CLOSE: locate the SurveyMonkey Curiosity topline for the April 11-21, 2025 wave. || Field dates, n=5,032 and +/-1.5 confirmed via search of The 19th's methodology note. The article page returns HTTP 402 to automated fetching, so the single percentage recorded below is from a search-engine summary and the wording is a paraphrase. Note a possible attribution conflict: secondary coverage pairs '59% support the right of transgender adults to access gender-affirming care' and '37% for minors' with 2025 19th/SurveyMonkey polling, but the September 2025 wave separately reports 50% and 37% - those two figures are recorded on the September record only, and the 59% is left out here rather than guessed at. || RESOLVED. 19thnews.org returns HTTP 402 to the fetch tool but serves normally to curl with a browser user agent; the article and its methodology paragraph were retrieved in full this session. CONFIRMED verbatim: 'This 19th News|SurveyMonkey poll was conducted online from April 11-21, 2025, among a national sample of 5,032 U.S. adults 18+. Respondents were selected from the more than two million people who take surveys on SurveyMonkey each day. Results for this non-probability survey have an error estimate of plus or minus 1.5 percentage points. Data have been weighted for age, race, sex, education and geography using the Census Bureau's American Community Survey.' Field dates, n and error estimate all match the stored record. NEWLY RECOVERED and added: the 59 percent total supporting access to gender-affirming care for transgender adults (the previous record had only the men/women split), the Republican figure on politicians not focusing on trans issues (57 percent, up from 53 percent), and the 2023 trend value (44 percent). The literal question stems are still NOT published by The 19th - question_text below remains a reconstruction from the reported response categories, which is why question_text_verbatim is false throughout. A future attempt wanting exact wording should look for SurveyMonkey's own Curiosity write-up of this April 2025 wave.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (7)
whether politicians should focus on transgender issues at all, vs. protecting trans rights vs. restricting gender-affirming care
[Which should politicians focus on regarding transgender issues?] Politicians should not be focusing on transgender issues at all / Politicians should focus on protecting transgender people's rights / Politicians should focus on restricting access to gender-affirming care
Wording reconstructed from: Reconstructed from The 19th's description of the response categories; the literal SurveyMonkey item stem was not retrieved
Politicians should not be focusing on transgender issues at all
49%
Wording notes: the 'do not focus' option is a salience response competing against two directional policy options, so the three shares are not directly comparable quantities | the restrictive option is narrowed to gender-affirming care while the affirming option is broad ('rights'), an asymmetry that may inflate the affirming share
unclear — Cannot be assessed properly without the literal stem. On the reported categories alone, the two directional options are not parallel in scope (broad 'rights' vs. narrow 'gender-affirming care'), which is a structural asymmetry worth flagging.
Subgroup figures (1)
confidence that politicians are informed enough about gender-affirming care for minors to make fair policy
[Are politicians informed enough about gender-affirming care for transgender minors to make fair policy?]
Wording reconstructed from: Paraphrase from The 19th's write-up; literal stem not retrieved
Politicians are informed enough about gender-affirming care for transgender minors to make fair policy
31%
Politicians are informed enough
24%
Politicians are informed enough
24%
Wording notes: measures perceived competence of policymakers rather than policy preference
unclear — Literal wording not available; the construct (perceived policymaker competence) is unusual and valuable but cannot be graded without the stem.
support for access to gender-affirming care, adults and youth, by respondent sex
[Do you support access to gender-affirming care for transgender adults? / for transgender youth?]
Wording reconstructed from: Paraphrase from The 19th's write-up; literal stem not retrieved
Wording notes: only the sex breakdown was published in the retrieved coverage; no total was reported for this wave
unclear — Literal wording not available.
Subgroup figures (4)
whether politicians should focus on transgender issues
Should politicians be focusing on transgender issues?
Wording reconstructed from: paraphrase from news coverage; the 19th News release page is paywalled to automated fetching
Politicians should not be focusing on transgender issues at all
49%
Wording notes: offers a 'should not focus at all' option, which competes with both directional options
unclear — verbatim wording unavailable; the presence of a 'not at all' option materially shapes the distribution
what politicians should do about transgender issues
[Which should politicians focus on regarding transgender issues?] Politicians should not be focusing on transgender issues at all / Politicians should be protecting transgender rights / Politicians should be restricting transgender rights
Wording reconstructed from: Reconstructed from The 19th's reported response categories ('should not focus on trans issues, versus protecting trans rights or restricting gender-affirming care'); SurveyMonkey's literal stem was not published
Politicians should not be focusing on transgender issues at all
49%
Politicians should not be focusing on transgender issues at all
44%
Politicians should not be focusing on transgender issues at all
43%
Wording notes: a 'stop talking about it' option competes with both directional options
neutral — the three options are symmetric in structure and the no-focus option is offered to everyone
Subgroup figures (4)
support for transgender adults' access to gender-affirming care
[Do you support or oppose the right of transgender adults to access gender-affirming care?]
Wording reconstructed from: Reconstructed from The 19th's description ('the majority of Americans (59 percent) support the right of transgender adults to access gender-affirming care'); the literal stem was not published
Support access for transgender adults
59%
Wording notes: 'gender-affirming care' used without definition in the item as reported
unclear — the literal stem was not published; 'gender-affirming care' is a contested term whose effect depends on how the item defined it
Subgroup figures (2)
support for transgender youth access to gender-affirming care
[Do you support or oppose access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth?]
Wording reconstructed from: Reconstructed from The 19th's reported gender breakdown; the literal stem was not published
Wording notes: only the gender breakdown was published; no total was reported for the youth item
unclear — the literal stem was not published
Subgroup figures (2)