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SLU/YouGov Poll, August 2023 · Jul 27, 2023 – Aug 8, 2023 · US: Missouri
Methodology
- Pollster
- YouGov academic
- Sponsor
- Saint Louis University (SLU/YouGov Poll)
- Commissioned by
- Saint Louis University
- Fielded
- Jul 27, 2023 – Aug 8, 2023
- Population
- likely voters
- Sample size
- 900
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- YouGov
- Mode
- online - YouGov opt-in panel, matched and weighted to Missouri likely-voter targets
- Margin of error
- ±4.02 percentage points
- Weighting
- YouGov weighted on gender, age, race and education to known characteristics of Missouri voters from the American Community Survey PUMS file, public voter file records, the 2020 Current Population Survey Voting and Registration supplement, the 2020 National Election Pool exit poll, and the 2020 CES, including 2020 presidential vote
- Geography
- US: Missouri
- Base notes
- Some items asked of reduced split samples; the transgender items reported here are full-sample (n=900).
Sources
Verification note. Percent-favor figures and party breaks read directly from SLU's own 'Missouri Voters' Opinions on LGBTQ+ Issues' summary PDF, which reprints the toplines wave by wave. Oppose/Not-sure splits for the youth-medical battery taken from SLU's August 2023 write-up page. || Favor/oppose/not-sure splits and party breaks read from SLU's own August 2023 write-up pages ('Transgender Medical Care' and 'Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Schools') and from SLU's 'Missouri Voters' Opinions on LGBTQ+ Issues' summary PDF. NOTE: the summary PDF renders the youth-care stem as 'gender transitional medical care'; SLU's write-up and the February 2026 topline both print 'gender transition medical care', which is used here.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (12)
gender-affirming counseling for people under 18
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transitional medical care like...
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transitional medical care like... ...gender affirming counseling
Wording notes: battery item under a single 'gender transitional medical care' stem | groups counseling with medical interventions
neutral — symmetric favor/oppose stem; 'gender transitional medical care' is a mildly nonstandard construction but not directional
Subgroup figures (3)
hormone therapy / puberty blockers for people under 18
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transitional medical care like...
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transitional medical care like... ...hormone therapy or medication that can temporarily prevent the effects of puberty
Wording notes: describes puberty blockers as 'temporarily' preventing puberty
neutral — symmetric stem; the 'temporarily prevent the effects of puberty' descriptor tracks clinical framing rather than a restrictive one
Subgroup figures (3)
gender-affirming surgery for people under 18
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transitional medical care like...
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transitional medical care like... ...gender affirming surgery
Wording notes: does not specify age floor within 'younger than 18'
neutral — symmetric favor/oppose stem with no evaluative adjectives
Subgroup figures (3)
transgender student athletes on teams matching gender identity
Do you favor or oppose the following policies...
Do you favor or oppose the following policies... ...allowing transgender student athletes to play on sports teams that match their gender identity, rather than the gender they were assigned at birth
Wording notes: uses 'the gender they were assigned at birth'
neutral — affirming-side framing ('gender identity', 'assigned at birth') paired with a symmetric favor/oppose stem
Subgroup figures (7)
discussing gender identity issues in elementary school
Do you favor or oppose public schools being allowed to...
Do you favor or oppose public schools being allowed to... ...discuss gender identity issues with students in elementary schools
Wording notes: 'gender identity issues' left undefined
neutral — symmetric stem; the design deliberately varies only school level across items
Subgroup figures (3)
discussing gender identity issues in middle school
Do you favor or oppose public schools being allowed to...
Do you favor or oppose public schools being allowed to... ...discuss gender identity issues with students in middle schools
Wording notes: 'gender identity issues' left undefined
neutral — symmetric stem
Subgroup figures (3)
discussing gender identity issues in high school
Do you favor or oppose public schools being allowed to...
Do you favor or oppose public schools being allowed to... ...discuss gender identity issues with students in high schools
Wording notes: 'gender identity issues' left undefined
neutral — symmetric stem
Subgroup figures (3)
banning books about transgender youth in public schools
Do you favor or oppose public schools being allowed to...
Do you favor or oppose public schools being allowed to... ...ban books with stories about transgendered youth
Wording notes: uses the nonstandard term 'transgendered'
loaded_terms — 'transgendered' is a deprecated/nonstandard adjectival form; the favor/oppose structure itself is symmetric
Subgroup figures (3)
gender-affirming counseling for people under 18
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transition medical care like...
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transition medical care like...gender affirming counseling?
Wording notes: battery item under a single 'gender transitional medical care' stem | groups counseling with medical interventions
neutral — symmetric favor/oppose stem; 'gender transitional medical care' is a mildly nonstandard construction but not directional
Subgroup figures (3)
hormone therapy / puberty blockers for people under 18
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transition medical care like...
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transition medical care like...hormone therapy or medication that can temporarily prevent the effects of puberty?
Wording notes: describes puberty blockers as 'temporarily' preventing puberty
neutral — symmetric stem; the 'temporarily prevent the effects of puberty' descriptor tracks clinical framing rather than a restrictive one
Subgroup figures (3)
gender-affirming surgery for people under 18
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transition medical care like...
Do you favor or oppose allowing someone younger than 18 to receive gender transition medical care like...gender affirming surgery?
Wording notes: does not specify age floor within 'younger than 18'
neutral — symmetric favor/oppose stem with no evaluative adjectives
Subgroup figures (3)
banning books about transgender youth in public schools
Do you favor or oppose public schools being allowed to...
Do you favor or oppose public schools being allowed to: ban books with stories about transgender youth?
Wording notes: SLU's own two publications of this item disagree on whether the wording was 'transgender' or 'transgendered' youth
neutral — symmetric favor/oppose stem; the only concern is the 'transgendered' variant printed in the summary PDF, which the write-up does not reproduce
Subgroup figures (3)