Majority Reject New Gender-Switch Passport Rules
Editor’s Note: Analysis of responses to Question 1, including comparison of phone and online responses, indicates that the wording may have caused confusion among many respondents. Recent research by the Williams Institute estimates that 0.6% of Americans are transgender.
National Survey of 1,000
American Adults
Conducted September 19-20,
2021
By Rasmussen Reports
1*
In your day-to-day life, do you identify with a gender other than the one you
were born with biologically?
2*
Federal education officials say a male student who identifies as a female and
participates on a girls’ sports team has the right to change and shower in the
girls’ locker room without restrictions. Do you favor or oppose allowing
transgender people to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of the gender they
identify with?
3*
The U.S. State Department recently instituted a policy allowing Americans to
select the gender they would like printed on their U.S. passport, even if it
does not match the gender on supporting documentation such as a birth
certificate, previous passport, or state ID. Do you approve or disapprove of
this policy change?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling
Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence
