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YouGov Survey: Transgender Issues · Dec 5–10, 2024 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- YouGov commercial
- Sponsor
- YouGov
- Fielded
- Dec 5–10, 2024
- Population
- adult citizens
- Sample size
- 1,115
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- YouGov Panel
- Mode
- Web-based interviews; YouGov online opt-in panel, sample matching; respondents selected from YouGov's opt-in panel to be representative of adult U.S. citizens
- Margin of error
- ±4% (adjusted for weighting)
- Weighting
- Weighted to U.S. adult citizen targets including 2024 presidential vote; see the YouGov methodology statement in the release PDF.
- Geography
- US national
Sources
Verification note. Release PDF (toplines plus crosstabs) downloaded and machine-parsed; Total and Party ID columns read directly and checked to sum to 99-101%. Fielded one month after the 2024 election. The 20-item policy grid repeats one framing of each issue from the January 2024 randomized-pair study, which makes the two directly comparable.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (6)
including transgender people in hate-crime laws
Views on Transgender Policies -- Including protections for transgender people in hate-crime laws
Would you support or oppose. . . ?
Wording notes: one framing per issue, unlike the January 2024 fielding which randomized between a permissive and a restrictive framing of the same issue | no strength-of-opinion scale
neutral — wording is identical to one half of the January 2024 randomized pair, so the two fieldings are directly comparable for that framing; support for the restrictive framings is markedly higher here than in January 2024
Subgroup figures (9)
whether gender incongruence is biological or social in origin
Some people say their gender identity does not match the sex that they were assigned at birth. Do you think this is the result of. . . ?
A mix of both
35%
Social factors
23%
Biological factors
16%
Not sure
27%
neutral — offers a genuine 'mix of both' middle
Subgroup figures (12)
whether transgender identity is a new phenomenon
Do you think that people feeling as if they are a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth is. . . ?
Something that has occurred in various time periods
50%
A relatively new phenomenon
26%
Not sure
24%
Wording notes: response option shortened from 'various cultures and time periods' (2023, January 2024) to 'various time periods'
neutral — two substantive alternatives; note the option-text change breaks strict comparability with earlier fieldings
Subgroup figures (9)
perceived level of discrimination against transgender people
How much discrimination do you think there is against people who are transgender in the United States today?
A lot
50%
A little
29%
None
6%
Not sure
15%
neutral — identical wording to earlier fieldings
Subgroup figures (12)
whether society has gone too far in accepting transgender people
Which of the following statements comes closer to your feelings?
Gone too far
35%
Not gone far enough
32%
About right
15%
Not sure
19%
neutral — same wording as the Economist/YouGov tracker
Subgroup figures (12)
agreement that a transgender woman is a woman
Identity of Transgender Men/Women -- A transgender woman is a woman
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
Wording notes: bare agree/disagree with no strength scale
neutral — unbalanced agree/disagree statement; agreement is slightly higher for the trans-man version in every fielding
Subgroup figures (9)