The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that states can restrict transgender women and girls from participating in women’s and girls’ sports.

Across most demographic groups, majorities of Americans said they would be uncomfortable with transgender athletes competing on sports teams that do not match their sex at birth.

 

Some groups of Americans were more likely than others to express discomfort with this:

  • Older adults were more likely than younger adults to express discomfort.
  • Men were more uncomfortable with this than women were.
  • White adults were more uncomfortable with this than Hispanic, Black and Asian adults were.
  • LGBTQ adults were more divided on this issue than other demographic group.

 

We surveyed 10,357 U.S. adults from Nov. 17 to 30, 2025, and 5,097 U.S. adults from Feb. 10 to 17, 2025. Everyone who took part in these surveys is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel. The surveys represent the views of the full U.S. adult population.

Here are the questions for the November survey, the detailed responses and the survey methodology. Here are the February survey questions, the detailed responses and the survey methodology.