Methodology
- Pollster
- The Dallas Morning News media
- Sponsor
- The Dallas Morning News
- Fielded
- Oct 2025
- Population
- transgender Texans
- Sample size
- 90
- Sample frame
- river/intercept
- Mode
- self-selected journalistic survey; recruitment method not published
- Margin of error
- not applicable; this is a self-selected sample, not a probability poll
- Weighting
- none - raw counts only
- Geography
- US: Texas
- Base notes
- 90 respondents; item bases vary (83 and 84 on two items), so denominators are recorded per result.
Sources
Verification note. RESOLVED on the counts. dallasnews.com was retrieved in full via curl this session (the previous attempt was blocked by the paywall). CONFIRMED and now recorded with actual numbers where the previous record had blank percentages: 77 of 90 respondents have picked a 'backup state' they might move to, and 27 of those picked one since November; 76 of 90 had talked with in-state friends or family about moving; 57 of 90 had begun saving money to move if needed; 88 of 90 felt less safe in public spaces this year; 82 of 84 said policies related to the trans community had increased their anxiety this year; and 26 of 83 said they had enough money to move out of the state. Percentages below are computed from those published counts and their stated denominators, which are given in the n field. STILL MISSING: verbatim question wording, recruitment method and exact field dates - The News describes the project only as a survey of trans Texans published October 9, 2025. THE PRIOR WARNING STANDS AND IS REINFORCED: this is a self-selected journalistic survey of 90 people, not a probability poll, and the figures are descriptive of respondents only. They must never be read as estimates for transgender Texans as a population.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
contemplation of leaving Texas, safety and anxiety
[stem not published] items on whether the respondent has identified a 'backup state', discussed moving with in-state friends or family, begun saving money to move, has enough money to move, feels less safe in public spaces, and whether trans-related policies increased their anxiety
Wording reconstructed from: The Dallas Morning News's own description of its survey items; no questionnaire published
Felt less safe in public spaces this year
97.8%
Said trans-related policies had increased their anxiety this year
97.6%
Have picked a 'backup state' they might move to
85.6%
Had talked with in-state friends or family about moving
84.4%
Had begun saving money to move if needed
63.3%
Said they had enough money to move out of the state
31.3%
Picked their backup state since November 2024
30%
Wording notes: self-selected respondents; counts, not population estimates | item bases differ (90, 84, 83), so shares are not directly comparable across items
unclear — no wording published, and a self-selected sample recruited through trans community channels will over-represent the most engaged and most alarmed
