knowing a transgender person
Do you personally know anyone who identifies as transgender? Select all that apply.
No
70%
Yes, an acquaintance
17%
Yes, a family member
8%
Yes, a close friend
8%
Yes, me
2%
neutral — standard contact battery
YouGov
YouGov Daily Survey: Transgender Issues (March 2022) · Mar 11–15, 2022 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- YouGov commercial
- Sponsor
- YouGov
- Fielded
- Mar 11–15, 2022
- Population
- adult citizens
- Sample size
- 1,000
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- YouGov panel
- Mode
- online interviews with U.S. adult citizens
- Margin of error
- approximately 3.3 percentage points
- Weighting
- weighted by gender, age, race, education, news interest, and 2020 presidential vote
- Geography
- US national
Sources
- Original release(opens another site)
- Topline PDF(opens another site)PDF, external
- Crosstabs(opens another site)PDF, external
Verification note. All wording and total percentages transcribed directly from the YouGov topline PDF. The crosstab PDF was not parsed in this session, so no party breaks are recorded. Grid percentages were reconstructed by column from the PDF text layer and checked to sum to 99-101 per row.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (15)
whether gender is determined by sex assigned at birth
Which statement comes closer to your views, even if neither is exactly right?
Whether someone is a man or a woman is determined by the sex they were assigned at birth
57%
Someone can be a man or a woman even if that is different from the sex they were assigned at birth
43%
Wording notes: no 'not sure' option offered
neutral — symmetric two-sided construction using 'sex they were assigned at birth' in both alternatives
society gone too far / not far enough in accepting transgender people
Which of the following statements comes closer to your feelings?
Our society has not gone far enough in accepting people who are transgender
33%
Our society has gone too far in accepting people who are transgender
28%
Our society has been about right when it comes to accepting people who are transgender
19%
Not sure
20%
Wording notes: middle option offered
neutral — symmetric three-point construction with an explicit midpoint and a not-sure option
bathroom and locker room access
We will now ask you to share your opinion on a number of different issues relating to transgender people in the United States. Do you support or oppose...
Allowing transgender people to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity, rather than the gender they were assigned at birth?
Support 36%43% Oppose
Wording notes: items 3, 4 and 5 of the grid are worded so that 'support' means supporting discrimination, reversing the usual polarity
neutral — straightforward support/oppose framing of the policy
transgender military service
We will now ask you to share your opinion on a number of different issues relating to transgender people in the United States. Do you support or oppose...
Allowing transgender people to serve in the military?
Support 49%33% Oppose
Wording notes: items 3, 4 and 5 of the grid are worded so that 'support' means supporting discrimination, reversing the usual polarity
neutral — straightforward support/oppose framing of the policy
employment discrimination
We will now ask you to share your opinion on a number of different issues relating to transgender people in the United States. Do you support or oppose...
Allowing employers to fire people or refuse to hire people for being transgender?
Support 20%65% Oppose
Wording notes: items 3, 4 and 5 of the grid are worded so that 'support' means supporting discrimination, reversing the usual polarity
loaded_terms — the item asks respondents to 'support' allowing firing or refusal of service, a reversed polarity relative to the rest of the battery that may prime opposition
health care provider refusal
We will now ask you to share your opinion on a number of different issues relating to transgender people in the United States. Do you support or oppose...
Allowing doctors or other health care providers to refuse to treat people because they are transgender?
Support 18%68% Oppose
Wording notes: items 3, 4 and 5 of the grid are worded so that 'support' means supporting discrimination, reversing the usual polarity
loaded_terms — the item asks respondents to 'support' allowing firing or refusal of service, a reversed polarity relative to the rest of the battery that may prime opposition
insurance coverage refusal
We will now ask you to share your opinion on a number of different issues relating to transgender people in the United States. Do you support or oppose...
Allowing health insurance companies to refuse to pay for health care services for people who are transgender?
Support 23%58% Oppose
Wording notes: items 3, 4 and 5 of the grid are worded so that 'support' means supporting discrimination, reversing the usual polarity
loaded_terms — the item asks respondents to 'support' allowing firing or refusal of service, a reversed polarity relative to the rest of the battery that may prime opposition
school sports participation
We will now ask you to share your opinion on a number of different issues relating to transgender people in the United States. Do you support or oppose...
Allowing transgender student athletes to play on sports teams that match their gender identity, rather than the gender they were assigned at birth?
Support 29%49% Oppose
Wording notes: the 'Schools banning books' item is worded so that 'support' means supporting a ban
neutral — policies are described in concrete, non-valenced terms; the puberty-blocker item supplies a short factual gloss on the treatment
puberty blockers for teenagers
We will now ask you to share your opinion on a number of different issues relating to transgender people in the United States. Do you support or oppose...
Allowing parents to provide their transgender teenagers with puberty-blocking drugs, which can temporarily prevent the effects of puberty that may not align with their gender identity?
Support 29%44% Oppose
Wording notes: the 'Schools banning books' item is worded so that 'support' means supporting a ban
neutral — policies are described in concrete, non-valenced terms; the puberty-blocker item supplies a short factual gloss on the treatment
travel to another state for care
We will now ask you to share your opinion on a number of different issues relating to transgender people in the United States. Do you support or oppose...
Allowing parents to transport their child to another state to receive gender-affirming medical care if doing so is illegal in their own state?
Support 40%34% Oppose
Wording notes: the 'Schools banning books' item is worded so that 'support' means supporting a ban
neutral — policies are described in concrete, non-valenced terms; the puberty-blocker item supplies a short factual gloss on the treatment
parental notification of pronoun requests
We will now ask you to share your opinion on a number of different issues relating to transgender people in the United States. Do you support or oppose...
Requiring K-12 schools to inform parents if their child requests to go by different pronouns while at school?
Support 52%23% Oppose
Wording notes: the 'Schools banning books' item is worded so that 'support' means supporting a ban
neutral — policies are described in concrete, non-valenced terms; the puberty-blocker item supplies a short factual gloss on the treatment
gender identity instruction
We will now ask you to share your opinion on a number of different issues relating to transgender people in the United States. Do you support or oppose...
Allowing schools to teach about gender identity in the classroom?
Support 40%41% Oppose
Wording notes: the 'Schools banning books' item is worded so that 'support' means supporting a ban
neutral — policies are described in concrete, non-valenced terms; the puberty-blocker item supplies a short factual gloss on the treatment
book bans
We will now ask you to share your opinion on a number of different issues relating to transgender people in the United States. Do you support or oppose...
Schools banning books with stories about transgender youth?
Support 32%48% Oppose
Wording notes: the 'Schools banning books' item is worded so that 'support' means supporting a ban
neutral — policies are described in concrete, non-valenced terms; the puberty-blocker item supplies a short factual gloss on the treatment
reaction if own child came out as transgender
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?
Somewhat Upset
28%
Not upset at all
27%
Not very upset
23%
Very upset
21%
Wording notes: response scale runs only from 'upset' to 'not upset' - no positive reaction offered | uses 'he or she'
tilts_restrictive — the scale presupposes that being upset is the natural reaction and offers no option for a pleased or affirming response
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