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HuffPost/YouGov: Transgender · Oct 25–26, 2018 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- YouGov commercial
- Sponsor
- HuffPost
- Commissioned by
- HuffPost
- Fielded
- Oct 25–26, 2018
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 1,000
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- YouGov Panel
- Mode
- Web-based interviews; respondents selected from YouGov's opt-in Internet panel using sample matching against a stratified random sample drawn from the American Community Survey
- Margin of error
- ±3.4% (adjusted for weighting)
- Weighting
- Weighted to U.S. adult population targets on gender, age, race, education and prior presidential vote; full weighting statement in the source PDF.
- Geography
- US national
Sources
Verification note. Crosstab PDF downloaded and parsed. This edition prints its tables column-major; Q9 was read that way and every column verified to sum to 100-101%. The other eight items in this survey (understanding, contact, discrimination, acceptance, Trump policy effects) are present in the PDF but their table layouts could not be disambiguated safely from the extracted text and are NOT recorded here rather than risk mis-assigned numbers.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (1)
federal redefinition of sex to exclude transgender people
Would you approve or disapprove of narrowing the definition of gender to eliminate federal recognition of transgender people?
Approve 37%38% Disapprove
Wording notes: fielded three days after the New York Times reported a leaked HHS memo proposing to define sex as immutable and determined at birth | states the consequence ('eliminate federal recognition of transgender people') in the item itself | very large Not sure share (26%) indicating low crystallisation
neutral — the item names the policy's effect rather than only its mechanism, which is more informative than a bare 'define sex as biological' wording and cuts against the restrictive side relative to the framing the administration itself used; the 26% Not sure is the headline caveat
Subgroup figures (15)