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YouGov survey on housing transgender women prisoners · Jan 27–30, 2023 · UK national
Methodology
- Pollster
- YouGov commercial
- Sponsor
- YouGov
- Fielded
- Jan 27–30, 2023
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 2,094
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- YouGov panel
- Mode
- online panel survey
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- weighted to be representative of UK adults (2019 general election vote, EU referendum vote, gender, age, social grade, country and region)
- Geography
- UK national
- Base notes
- Party breaks are 2019 general election vote (Con weighted n=668, Lab 490, Lib Dem 176). Scotland subsample weighted n=178.
Sources
Verification note. Wording and all figures read directly from YouGov's published data tables PDF and cross-checked against YouGov's write-up (59% men's prison for a pre-surgical trans woman convicted of rape or sexual assault; 31% for a post-surgical one; Con 70% vs Lab 50%). Fielded in the immediate aftermath of the Isla Bryson case in Scotland.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (2)
non-violent offence, post-surgical trans woman
When considering a transgender woman who has been given a prison sentence for a non-violent, non-sexual crime, in the following instances, where do you think they should be housed?
A transgender woman who has had full gender reassignment surgery
A women's prison
54%
A men's prison
20%
Don't know
26%
Wording notes: splits the scenario by surgical status | splits the scenario by offence type
neutral — the two prison options are stated symmetrically; the offence-type and surgical-status conditions are the deliberate experimental structure and are applied in all four cells
Subgroup figures (39)
party
gender
age
education
other
non-violent offence, pre-surgical trans woman
When considering a transgender woman who has been given a prison sentence for a non-violent, non-sexual crime, in the following instances, where do you think they should be housed?
A transgender woman who has not had full gender reassignment surgery
A men's prison
48%
A women's prison
24%
Don't know
29%
Wording notes: splits the scenario by surgical status | splits the scenario by offence type
neutral — the two prison options are stated symmetrically; the offence-type and surgical-status conditions are the deliberate experimental structure and are applied in all four cells
Subgroup figures (39)
party
gender
age
education
other