A national survey of 1,000 American adults found that 55% of those with elementary and secondary school age children oppose of policies that allow people to use public restrooms intended for use by the gender with which they identify.  The automated telephone survey was sponsored by Rasmussen Reports and conducted by Pulse Opinion Research on May 15 and May 16, 2016.

Of all respondents, 51% oppose the policies. The organization points out that this is significantly lower than the results of a November 2015 survey in which 64% of respondents indicated their opposition to U.S. Education Department directive allowing transgender people to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex.

The May 2016 survey asked respondents to indicate their responses to just two questions:

  1. The federal government has ordered all public schools in America to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of the gender they identify with. Do you favor or oppose allowing transgender students to use the bathrooms of the opposite biological sex?
  2. Who should be responsible for setting bathroom policies in elementary and secondary schools – local government, state government or the federal government?
What's your view?
Who should be responsible for school bathroom policies: Federal, state or local government? Comment below

The majority of survey respondents said that the federal government should not be responsible for setting bathroom usage policies in public schools. Just 24% said this responsibility should fall on the federal government. 25% of those surveyed said the state government should be responsible for setting bathroom policies while 41% said that bathroom policies should be left up to the local government.

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