76% of MA Voters Favor Protecting Transgender People from Discrimination
November 11th, 2009

http://www.masstpc.org/?p=612

NEW POLL Shows Broad and Deep Support for Current Legislation

A new poll shows that 76% of Massachusetts voters, including 81% of women, support passing a law prohibiting discrimination against transgender people in employment, housing, and public accommodations.

The poll, conducted by Lake Research Partners from November 4-8 2009, was released today by a coalition ofMassachusetts organizations* working to pass non-discrimination legislation.  It was based on telephone interviews with 400 likely voters.

Advocates said the poll demonstrates far greater support for the non-discrimination bill (H. 1728/S. 1687) than previously thought. The bill is now being studied by the joint Judiciary Committee of the legislature.

I wonder how it would be taken if the headline instead read,

"24% of MA Voters Favor Discriminating against Transgender People"

Julie

The "cross-tabs" for this, http://www.masstpc.org/publications/legis/poll_public_memo.pdf

Interesting numbers over-all. Though this is a poll of likely mid-term voters. IMO, such voters probably lean towards being more conservative.

I also learned something, I didnt realize that any Republicans remained in Mass.

On a serious note, This type of legislation, nation-wide, is the backdoor to full equality by way of the ballot box and or bill passing.
Good news is that state by state polling shows similar numbers.