YouGovYouGov Omnibus - LGBTQ Laws · Mar 26–28, 2016 · US national
Verification note. All wording, response options, percentages and the full methodology statement extracted directly from YouGov's own topline PDF. The topline notes '20 questions not reported', so this is a partial instrument.
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Do you think transgender people should use the bathrooms that correspond with their birth gender or with their current gender?
Wording notes: 'birth gender' vs 'current gender' contrast | no policy framing - asks about behavior rather than law | high not-sure share (26%)
neutral — symmetric two-alternative construction with an explicit not-sure option
Do you favor or oppose a law that would require transgender people to use the bathroom which corresponds with the gender of their birth?
Wording notes: favor = restriction, inverting the usual direction | paired with Q7 as a behavior-vs-law comparison on the same sample
neutral — standard symmetric four-point favor/oppose with the policy stated plainly
| Group | Favor (net) |
|---|---|
| Republican | 55% |
| Independent | 40% |
| Democrat | 27% |
Do you think that cities and municipalities should be able to make their own laws about who can use which bathrooms, or should there be one law for the entire state?
Wording notes: does not name transgender people explicitly - euphemised as 'who can use which bathrooms' | asked directly after a parallel preemption item about anti-gay employment discrimination, so the referent is established by context
unclear — the euphemistic referent makes it ambiguous whether respondents answered about transgender access specifically or about bathroom regulation generally; included here because it is the preemption item in a transgender bathroom battery fielded during the HB2 fight
Do you think that transgender people are more or less likely than other people to sexually assault women and children?
Wording notes: directly measures the predator stereotype that anchored the 2016 bathroom-bill campaign | asks respondents to compare transgender people to 'other people' on propensity to commit sexual assault - a social-distance/stigma item rather than a policy item | offers a 'less likely' pole that has no natural constituency, which may compress the distribution
loaded_terms — the item presupposes the comparison is a live question and names 'women and children' as the victim class, importing the rhetorical frame of the bathroom-bill campaign into the stem; it is nonetheless valuable precisely as a measure of how far that frame had penetrated
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