self-rated understanding of what being transgender means
How well do you feel you understand what it means for someone to identify as transgender?
Moderately well
36%
Very well
18%
Not too well
18%
Not well at all
15%
Extremely well
13%
neutral — the same wording YouGov still used in 2022-2024, giving a decade-long comprehension trend
Subgroup figures (15)
personally knowing a transgender person
Do you personally know someone who identifies as transgender?
No
71%
Yes, someone else
22%
Yes, me
2%
Not sure
5%
neutral — baseline contact measure; 22% reported knowing a transgender person in early 2015
Subgroup figures (12)
access to sex-designated facilities matching gender identity
Do you think that transgender people should be allowed to use public restrooms, dressing rooms and locker rooms designated for a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth?
Wording notes: earliest US transgender facility-access item in this sweep, fielded more than a year before North Carolina HB2 | bundles restrooms, dressing rooms and locker rooms into one item | phrases access as using facilities 'designated for a different gender', which frames the trans person as the one crossing a line
tilts_restrictive — the 'designated for a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth' construction adopts the birth-sex designation as the baseline and describes the affirming option as a departure from it; bundling locker rooms with restrooms also raises objection relative to restroom-only items
Subgroup figures (9)
