YouGovYouGov Daily Survey: Transgender Issues · Aug 25–31, 2021 · US national
Verification note. Toplines PDF downloaded and read directly. This release is TOPLINES ONLY - no crosstabs were published with it, so no party breaks are available for any item. This is a US fielding of the facility-access battery YouGov normally runs in Great Britain.
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Do you think a person should or should not be able to legally self-identify as a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth?
neutral — balanced should/should not with an explicit Don't know
Statement: A transgender woman is a woman
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
Wording notes: bare agree/disagree with no strength scale | acquiescence-prone format
neutral — unbalanced agree/disagree statement rather than a two-sided choice
Battery item: Take part in women's sporting events?
Do you think transgender women should or should not be allowed to...
Wording notes: asks separately about transgender women and transgender men, which most US pollsters do not do | British-origin wording ('toilets', 'refuges') used in a US sample
neutral — symmetric should/should not; the parallel men/women design is itself the point of the battery and shows consistently higher permissiveness toward transgender men
Battery item: Take part in men's sporting events?
Do you think transgender men should or should not be allowed to...
Wording notes: asks separately about transgender women and transgender men, which most US pollsters do not do | British-origin wording ('toilets', 'refuges') used in a US sample
neutral — symmetric should/should not; the parallel men/women design is itself the point of the battery and shows consistently higher permissiveness toward transgender men
Battery item: Use women's changing rooms?
Do you think a transgender woman who has not had gender reassignment surgery should or should not be allowed to...
Wording notes: introduces surgical status as a condition on facility access | term 'gender reassignment surgery' rather than 'gender-affirming surgery'
neutral — the surgical-status condition is the experimental manipulation; support drops about 6-7 points versus the unconditional item, which is the finding
Battery item: Use men's changing rooms?
Do you think a transgender man who has not had gender reassignment surgery should or should not be allowed to...
Wording notes: introduces surgical status as a condition on facility access | term 'gender reassignment surgery' rather than 'gender-affirming surgery'
neutral — the surgical-status condition is the experimental manipulation; support drops about 6-7 points versus the unconditional item, which is the finding
Do you believe that allowing transgender women to use spaces reserved for women, such as women's toilets or changing rooms, does or does not present any genuine risk of harm to women?
Wording notes: imports the 'risk of harm to women' frame directly from British gender-critical campaigning | no parallel item asks about risk of harm to transgender people
loaded_terms — the item presupposes that 'risk of harm to women' is the relevant frame for facility access and offers no counterpart about harm to trans people; the phrase 'genuine risk of harm' is a campaigning formulation rather than a neutral description, though the two response options themselves are symmetric
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