This is what I notice everytime I look at the data.

I am quite confused what the poster believes will be the basis of a more accurate result if the question asked about ‘cis gender’ women? In my mind, that is just not believable. If anything, that really does signal to female people that they are answering a survey for an ideologically driven collection agency.

Plus the fact that is is confusing to both those who don’t understand the terminology and those who do understand with a depth of knowledge that it means some male people with DSDs are considered cis women by some activists so this makes the use of it in questionnaires inappropriate for clear results.

Any manager seeing a project using a question about ‘cis’ going out to the general population (including university) should be demanding clear and accurate common use language. It would be an absurd argument to defend use of the term cis as being commonly understood by the general public.

When the JL Partners/Sex Matters poll came out I remember being surprised at how many people didn't even think a gender neutral option should be offered and that everyone should just use the facilities allocated for their sex.

It seems that those of us who are happy to advocate for a gender neutral space in addition to single-sex are more supportive of trans-identifying people than one-third of the general public. The TRAs should be thanking us really!

The language in the questions has changed as well, hasn't it? Making it much clearer that a "transwoman" is biologically male.

It was language obfuscation and No Debate that let this madness get as far as it did. And all the "I'll inform on her before they come for me." Very Cultural Revolution.

I refuse to dignify that with a response.

... I've been trying to come up with a sensible answer, but I think I'll settle for:

UGH 👿!!

Fuck that!

What is clear though is several things.

The majority of female people don’t agree that male people should have access into female single sex provisions.

That there has been a consistent trend between two polls now that show the majority 18-24 year old also don’t agree male people should have access to female single sex provisions.

And that there is a swing towards disagreeing that male people should have access to female single sex provisions as the age group gets younger. ie. Less under 20 year olds believe male people should have access to female single sex provisions than the slightly older age group.

We have seen this direction of trend for a couple of years. I suspect it is because this age group have had experiences that have been negative in this regard and they certainly would be the age group that saw the removal of single sex toilets in some schools. Remember the protests across the country that rolled through the secondary schools and colleges a few years ago about the change that the student were rejecting.

It does throw a different light onto the claims that ‘we are all going to die out and the younger generation are so much more accepting’ into the pile of wrongly assumed shit that ill-informed extreme trans activists say.

Whut? I'm sure there's a logic to this, but I'm not seeing it right now

ooh HEPI! Thanks for this!

Interesting... it is, however, likely that a male activist screaming abuse into the face of a large man would get a fist in his face for his trouble! Much safer to scream abuse at small women. Interesting...

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TRAs have used that as a gotcha many times to attempt to gaslight women that they need to be “kind” like other women, as only men object to men in women’s spaces.

The questions were:

Q6. Do you think that biological males who identify as women should be allowed to use women’s changing rooms?

Question 6: the responses were:
Yes: 31% (male 26%) (female 33%) (16-19 - 29%) (20-21 - 32%)
No: 55% (male 63%) (female 50%) (16-19 - 58%) (20-21 - 53%)
Don't know: 14% (male 11%) (female 17%) (16-19 - 13%) (20-21 - 15%)

Q7. Do you think that biological females who identify as men should be allowed to use men’s changing rooms?

Question 7: the responses were:
Yes: 34% (male 31%) (female 36%) (16-19 - 34%) (20-21 - 35%)
No: 52% (male 58%) (female 47%) (16-19 - 53%) (20-21 - 51%)
Don't know: 14% (male 11%) (female 17%) (16-19 - 13%) (20-21 - 14%)

I like how for both questions, men were more decisive, and more opposed to trans people in opposite-sex spaces. It's funny how TRAs are always complaining about the evil women who hate trans people, when in fact men are even more "hateful".

When polling from different collection organisations asking clear questions come up with rather close response rates, it is a pretty good indicator of what the public think.

HEPI "A BREED APART? WHAT DO YOUNG UNDERGRADUATES THINK OF CONTROVERSIAL AND DIVISIVE ISSUES?"

https://www.hepi.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/A-breed-apart-What-do-young-undergraduates-think-of-controversial-and-divisive-issues.pdf

https://www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/a-breed-apart-what-do-young-undergraduates-think-of-controversial-and-divisive-issues/

The data:
https://www.hepi.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/A-breed-apart-polling-data.xlsx

p6: Transwomen and transmen

The questions were:
Q6. Do you think that biological males who identify as women should be allowed to use women’s changing rooms?

Question 6: the responses were:
Yes: 31% (male 26%) (female 33%) (16-19 - 29%) (20-21 - 32%)
No: 55% (male 63%) (female 50%) (16-19 - 58%) (20-21 - 53%)
Don't know: 14% (male 11%) (female 17%) (16-19 - 13%) (20-21 - 15%)

Q7. Do you think that biological females who identify as men should be allowed to use men’s changing rooms?
Question 7: the responses were:
Yes: 34% (male 31%) (female 36%) (16-19 - 34%) (20-21 - 35%)
No: 52% (male 58%) (female 47%) (16-19 - 53%) (20-21 - 51%)
Don't know: 14% (male 11%) (female 17%) (16-19 - 13%) (20-21 - 14%)

Comment from the report:

When asked for their views on the changing-room facilities that transwomen and transmen should be expected to use, roughly one-third of students say people should use the changing room assigned to their gender identity while one-half disagree (presumably assuming they should use the facility assigned to their sex at birth or a gender-neutral space). Although we asked about transwomen and transmen separately, the results were similar for these two groups.

In contrast, a 2026 JL Partners poll for Sex Matters found just one-in-five (19%) adults think people ‘should be allowed to use whichever facilities they prefer’. In the same poll, over one-third of respondents said people ‘should use the facilities of their sex at birth’ (36%) and another third said ‘they should not use facilities of the opposite sex but there should be an alternative’ (34%).

These results suggest students may be a little more favourable than the public overall towards those who wish to use the changing facility for their gender rather than the one for their sex at birth – but it is notable that both a majority of students and a majority of the whole adult population pick other options.

Most of the answers from the 18-24 year old age group for the Sex Matters March 2026 research are not far off this - ie: with the 'yes they should be allowed' in the same % range in both data sets.

The question was: A transgender person is someone who says they are the other sex, that is, a person born male who identifies as a woman, or a person born female who identifies as a man. How do you think transgender people should be accommodated in toilets…

They should be allowed to use whichever facilities they prefer (18-24 yr age group responded):
At work - 38%,
In gyms and leisure centres - 30%,
At university - 30%,
In a bar or entertainment venue - 33%,
In public toilets - 30%
In hospital - 30%

They should not use facilities for the opposite sex but there should be an alternative (18-24 yr age group responded):
At work - 38%,
In gyms and leisure centres - 42%,
At university - 35%,
In a bar or entertainment venue - 32%,
In public toilets - 33%
In hospital - 32%

They should use the facilities of their sex at birth (18-24 yr age group responded) :
At work - 18%,
In gyms and leisure centres - 21%,
At university - 23%,
In a bar or entertainment venue - 26%,
In public toilets - 28%
In hospital - 28%

Unsure. (18-24 yr age group responded) :
At work - 12%,
In gyms and leisure centres - 12%,
At university - 12%,
In a bar or entertainment venue - 12%,
In public toilets - 12%
In hospital - 11%

Note: Sorry, I did this just now under a time constraint, any errors, please point them out.

I am already there!

SQUEE!