Ipsos/Buzzfeed Poll Shows Global Support for Transgender Rights

Citizens in 23 countries polled: Spain and Sweden top list for supporting transgender rights.

Key Points

Spain and Sweden top the list for support for transgender rights.

Spain was the only country where a majority of our sample support allowing people to change their legal gender designation without restriction.

  • Most respondents in two-thirds of these countries said transgender people should be “allowed to use the restroom of the sex they identify with.”

The detailed tables are available for download at the bottom of this page.

The study is based on interviews conducted via Ipsos’ Global Advisor online Omnibus from October 21st-November 4th, 2016 interviews with 17,105 adults across 23 countries.

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