YouGovThe Economist/YouGov Poll · Oct 6–8, 2019 · US national
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Level of discrimination -- Transgender people
How much discrimination do the following people face in America today?
Wording notes: battery item
neutral — standard balanced four-point discrimination scale
| Group | A great deal | A fair amount | Not much | None at all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democrat | 65% | 23% | 6% | 6% |
| Independent | 33% | 33% | 22% | 12% |
| Republican | 16% | 34% | 33% | 16% |
Do you support or oppose allowing transgender people to serve in the military?
Wording notes: drops 'openly' relative to the 2017-2018 version, so it is a different item
neutral — plain support/oppose with a Not sure
| Group | Support | Oppose | Not sure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Democrat | 77% | 13% | 11% |
| Independent | 42% | 26% | 31% |
| Republican | 26% | 58% | 17% |
Do you support or oppose a law that would prohibit discrimination in hiring and employment based on sexual orientation or gender identity?
Wording notes: bundles sexual orientation and gender identity in one item, so it does not isolate transgender protections | fielded the week the Supreme Court heard Harris Funeral Homes / Bostock
neutral — plain support/oppose; the bundling is a measurement limitation rather than a slant
| Group | Support | Oppose | Not sure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Democrat | 71% | 19% | 10% |
| Independent | 44% | 26% | 30% |
| Republican | 40% | 36% | 24% |
Do you think transgender people should use the bathrooms that correspond with their birth gender or with their current gender identity?
Wording notes: uses 'birth gender' here; later fieldings of the same tracker say 'assigned sex at birth'
neutral — two-sided forced choice with an explicit Not sure; the term change in later waves is a comparability caveat
| Group | Birth gender | Current gender identity | Not sure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Democrat | 20% | 61% | 19% |
| Independent | 36% | 30% | 34% |
| Republican | 67% | 17% | 16% |
Asked of half of respondents
Would it make you feel uncomfortable if you saw someone who identifies as male, but you know was born female, enter and use the men's restroom?
Wording notes: split-half pair with the trans-woman version (Q36) | describes the person as 'someone who identifies as male, but you know was born female' rather than as a transgender man | measures personal discomfort rather than policy preference
tilts_restrictive — the 'but you know was born female' construction cues the respondent to treat birth sex as the operative fact and presupposes the respondent would know; the design is nonetheless valuable because the two halves are otherwise identical
| Group | Yes, I would feel uncomfortable | No, it would not matter | Prefer not to say |
|---|---|---|---|
| Democrat | 25% | 69% | 5% |
| Independent | 44% | 40% | 15% |
| Republican | 66% | 19% | 14% |
Asked of half of respondents
Would it make you feel uncomfortable if you saw someone who identifies as female, but you know was born male, enter and use the women's restroom?
Wording notes: split-half pair with the trans-man version (Q34) | party crosstab not extracted
tilts_restrictive — mirror of Q34; discomfort is 5 points higher for the transgender-woman version, which is the point of the split
Do you approve or disapprove of firing a teacher for refusing to use a transgender student's new pronouns?
Wording notes: asks about the sanction (firing) rather than about the underlying pronoun policy, which is a much harder test | prompted by a specific Virginia news story asked about in the preceding item
neutral — wording is even-handed, but by asking about dismissal rather than about whether teachers should use a student's pronouns it measures views on employment sanctions, and should not be read as opposition to pronoun use as such
| Group | Strongly approve | Somewhat approve | Somewhat disapprove | Strongly disapprove | Not sure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democrat | 24% | 24% | 14% | 14% | 24% |
| Independent | 10% | 10% | 19% | 32% | 29% |
| Republican | 7% | 8% | 15% | 55% | 15% |
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