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Okay, this comes on behalf of the HRC, and they note this is the methodology.
Already a pretty fucked ratio for the medium. The questions also never get specific about what "equality" entails. It's very general "rights and protections", "access to healthcare", employment discrimination", and "discrimination in schools". Nothing about bathrooms; nothing about gender-affirming care. Basically just "transgender people should be allowed to exist in society".
I'm sure even people who make fun of transgender people behind their backs in a hushed tone would say that they deserve to be able to go to school.
SSRS is okay enough as pollsters go; I just don't think this shows much of anything, because 85% of Americans might begrudgingly say trans people deserve to be able to see a doctor, but certainly 85% do not support actual healthcare trans people need. It's not real equality; it's at best a strictly egalitarian idea of equality where "well I can't do it either (by my arbitrary definitions of "not using the opposite-sex bathroom" and "changing my primary sexual characteristics and/or hormones to those of the opposite sex"), so we're equal," is equality.
Yeah 80% the demo selection here is not representative of the population as a whole it doesn’t smell like, and I think a lot of people read the terms like equality very differently. Seems like it is possibly a pretty misleading survey.