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YouGov - Where Americans stand on 20 transgender policy issues · Jan 22–27, 2024 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- YouGov commercial
- Sponsor
- YouGov
- Fielded
- Jan 22–27, 2024
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 2,000
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- YouGov panel
- Mode
- online
- Margin of error
- approximately ±3 percentage points
- Weighting
- weighted to be representative of U.S. adults
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- two surveys of 1,000 U.S. adults each, fielded January 22-27 and January 23-26, 2024
Sources
Verification note. IMPORTANT CAVEAT: the retrieved YouGov article published only NET SUPPORT margins (support minus oppose) for each of the 20 policies, not the underlying support and oppose percentages. The values in `results` are therefore net margins in percentage points, labelled as such in the `response` field - they are NOT the share of respondents choosing an answer. The underlying toplines and any party crosstabs were not retrieved. Item labels are YouGov's short descriptors, not verbatim question wording.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (11)
requiring prisons to house transgender prisoners by sex assigned at birth
Do you support or oppose each of the following policies?
Requiring prisons to house transgender prisoners according to their sex assigned at birth
Wording reconstructed from: YouGov's short policy descriptor as printed in the article's net-support chart; the full item stem was not published on the retrieved page
Net support (support minus oppose), percentage points
21%
Wording notes: restriction-direction item: support means restricting placement by gender identity
neutral — plain support/oppose stem on a concrete policy
transgender women's access to women's refuges and shelters
Do you support or oppose each of the following policies?
Allowing transgender women to access women's refuges
Wording reconstructed from: YouGov's short policy descriptor as printed in the net-support chart
Net support (support minus oppose), percentage points
0%
Wording notes: one of only four items in the battery where opinion was evenly divided (net 0)
neutral — plain support/oppose stem
amending gender markers on identity documents
Do you support or oppose each of the following policies?
Allowing transgender people to amend the gender on their identity documents
Wording reconstructed from: YouGov's short policy descriptor as printed in the net-support chart
Net support (support minus oppose), percentage points
-2%
Wording notes: one of the four evenly divided items; net -2
neutral — plain support/oppose stem
defining legal gender by sex assigned at birth
Do you support or oppose each of the following policies?
Defining a person's legal gender by their sex assigned at birth
Wording reconstructed from: YouGov's short policy descriptor as printed in the net-support chart
Net support (support minus oppose), percentage points
16%
Wording notes: restriction-direction item; anticipates the January 2025 federal 'two sexes' executive order by a year
neutral — plain support/oppose stem
banning employment discrimination against transgender people
Do you support or oppose each of the following policies?
Banning discrimination against transgender people in employment
Wording reconstructed from: YouGov's short policy descriptor as printed in the net-support chart
Net support (support minus oppose), percentage points
33%
Wording notes: second-highest net support of the 20 items
neutral — plain support/oppose stem
hate-crime protections covering transgender people
Do you support or oppose each of the following policies?
Including transgender people in hate-crime protections
Wording reconstructed from: YouGov's short policy descriptor as printed in the net-support chart
Net support (support minus oppose), percentage points
36%
Wording notes: highest net support of the 20 items
neutral — plain support/oppose stem
transgender military service
Do you support or oppose each of the following policies?
Allowing transgender people to serve in the military
Wording reconstructed from: YouGov's short policy descriptor as printed in the net-support chart
Net support (support minus oppose), percentage points
22%
neutral — plain support/oppose stem
age restrictions on drag shows
Do you support or oppose each of the following policies?
Imposing age restrictions on drag shows
Wording reconstructed from: YouGov's short policy descriptor as printed in the net-support chart
Net support (support minus oppose), percentage points
18%
Wording notes: 'age restrictions' is a substantially softer framing than the outright drag bans state legislatures debated in 2023, and produces markedly higher support
neutral — plain support/oppose stem, but note the age-restriction framing is not equivalent to a performance ban
government employees using a person's preferred pronouns
Do you support or oppose each of the following policies?
Government employees using a transgender person's preferred pronouns
Wording reconstructed from: YouGov's short policy descriptor as printed in the net-support chart
Net support (support minus oppose), percentage points
6%
Wording notes: contrast with the separate 'pronoun requirements' item, which drew net -3
neutral — plain support/oppose stem
requiring people to use a transgender person's preferred pronouns
Do you support or oppose each of the following policies?
Requiring people to use a transgender person's preferred pronouns
Wording reconstructed from: YouGov's short policy descriptor as printed in the net-support chart
Net support (support minus oppose), percentage points
-3%
Wording notes: compulsion framing ('requiring') produces the lowest net support of the 20 items
neutral — plain support/oppose stem; the compulsion element is the substance of the policy, not a wording artifact
gender-neutral restrooms
Do you support or oppose each of the following policies?
Providing gender-neutral restrooms
Wording reconstructed from: YouGov's short policy descriptor as printed in the net-support chart
Net support (support minus oppose), percentage points
7%
neutral — plain support/oppose stem