YouGovYouGov Omnibus transgender survey · Jun 2015 – Jun 3, 2015 · US national
Verification note. Crosstab PDF downloaded and parsed; Total and Party ID columns read directly and verified. No methodology page in the document, so weighting and margin of error are not stated in the source. Q9 is coded trans_respondent_experience only in the sense that it asks about a respondent's own household; it is asked of the general public, not of trans people.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Do you personally know anyone who is transgender?
Wording notes: no Not sure option offered
neutral — fielded days after Caitlyn Jenner's Vanity Fair cover, so awareness was unusually high
| Group | Yes | No |
|---|---|---|
| Democrat | 23% | 77% |
| Independent | 20% | 80% |
| Republican | 12% | 88% |
Once a person has been diagnosed with gender identity disorder, should insurance companies be required to cover the costs of treatment?
Wording reconstructed from: YouGov Omnibus crosstab PDF, June 1-3 2015, table 6
Wording notes: uses the diagnostic label 'gender identity disorder', which the DSM-5 had already replaced with 'gender dysphoria' in 2013 | frames coverage as a legal requirement on insurers rather than as access
loaded_terms — 'gender identity disorder' is an outdated pathologizing label that was superseded two years before fielding; combined with the 'required to' framing this is a harder test than a plain coverage item
| Group | Yes | No | Not sure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Democrat | 39% | 34% | 27% |
| Independent | 24% | 44% | 32% |
| Republican | 12% | 68% | 20% |
If you had a child who told you he or she was transgender, would you be very upset, somewhat upset, not very upset, or not upset at all?
Wording notes: measures the negative pole only ('how upset'), with no supportive end to the scale | gendered stem 'he or she'
tilts_restrictive — the scale runs from very upset to not upset at all, so it cannot record active support; YouGov's later versions of this item (2023) use a supportive/unsupportive scale instead, which makes the two non-comparable
| Group | Very upset | Upset | Not very upset | Not upset at all | Unsure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democrat | 12% | 16% | 18% | 35% | 19% |
| Independent | 20% | 19% | 13% | 24% | 23% |
| Republican | 36% | 29% | 16% | 7% | 12% |
If your spouse told you he or she was transgender, would you be very upset, somewhat upset, not very upset, or not upset at all?
Wording notes: negative-pole-only scale | asked immediately after the equivalent child item
tilts_restrictive — same one-sided scale as the child version; the child/spouse pair is informative because distress is far higher for a spouse (48% very upset) than for a child (21%)
| Group | Very upset | Upset | Not very upset | Not upset at all | Unsure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democrat | 40% | 21% | 11% | 12% | 17% |
| Independent | 44% | 24% | 5% | 10% | 18% |
| Republican | 70% | 17% | 5% | 2% | 6% |
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