The Maine Department of Corrections currently allows inmates to live in the prison of the gender they identify with rather than their sex at birth if they receive a gender dysphoria diagnosis and a team of medical personnel and other staff determine it's in the inmate's best interest. Generally speaking, do you agree or disagree with this policy set by the Maine Department of Corrections or do you not have an opinion about this?
Wording notes: stem describes the clinical gatekeeping in the existing policy (dysphoria diagnosis, staff determination), which is favorable context | elsewhere in the release the pollster notes the policy triggered a federal funding cut, though that is not in the item stem
neutral — the stem is a factual description of the existing policy including its safeguards, with an explicit no-opinion option offered
Subgroup figures (3)
party
| Group | NET agree/support | NET disagree/oppose |
|---|---|---|
| Democrat | 76% | — |
| Republican | — | 93% |
| Independent | — | 56% |