A new policy enacted in some Florida public schools requires teachers to notify parents before using a student’s requested name or gender pronouns. Just over half of Americans say they support requiring K-12 schools to inform parents if their child requests to go by different pronouns while at school. Roughly one in four oppose requiring this. On this question, the gap between Democrats and Republicans is smaller than on many other questions about trans youth.

Over the past two years, numerous states have banned trans youths from competing in school-sponsored athletics. About half of Americans (49%) oppose rather than support (29%) allowing transgender student athletes to play on sports teams that match their gender identity, rather than the gender they were assigned at birth.

Americans who report knowing someone who is transgender are more likely to support transgender athletes being allowed to play on the team that matches their gender identity – about as many support as oppose allowing this. As with most other issues, we find a wide partisan divide on transgender athletes: Half of Democrats support allowing transgender athletes to play on teams matching their gender identity, while three in four Republicans oppose this. Younger Americans are somewhat more likely than older Americans to be supportive of transgender athletes playing on teams matching their gender identity.