Republicans put three gender options on a survey & you’ll never guess what they are

A Republican super PAC is getting attention for the bizarre third-gender option they put on a survey.

The super PAC “More Jobs, Less Government” – which is supporting Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy in Montana – sent out a survey to test a TV ad attacking Sheehy’s GOP primary opponent, Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT). The survey asked participants to choose their gender from one of three options: Male; Female, Homemaker; and Female, Working Woman.

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The survey, which was first reported on by The 19th, could be a sign that the super PAC will be focusing on traditional gender roles in the coming election cycle.

“I assume they are attempting to measure the differences in the impact of certain messages or unique policy preferences between those two groups of women,” said the president of the polling firm co/efficient, Ryan Munce. “However, that is not how we would design a study seeking to accomplish that objective.”

Another expert said that it could have been a “push poll,” or a poll designed to get a message out more than collect information from respondents. In this case, it may have been signaling that Sheehy supports using the government’s power to make people follow traditional gender roles.

“It’s a way to communicate something, and it’s pretty overt. But it’s also not saying, ‘Agree or disagree, women belong in the home,’” said Kelly Dittmar of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. “This candidate we’re supporting is a remnant of this traditionalism that has been attacked.” 

The ad that the poll was asking about portrays Rosendale as “wrong for Montana” and attacks him for being one of five Republicans to vote against the “Parents Bill of Rights” in the U.S. House this past year. The ad says that the bill is necessary to stop a world where “Children can change their pronouns or get vaccinated without your consent.”

“The answer to an out-of-control education system is not turning more control over to the federal government!” Rosendale wrote on X last year to explain his vote against the bill. The Democratic Senate never took up the bill.

The 19th notes that Sheehy’s wife, Carmen, is a former Marine and that the couple created Bridger Aerospace, a company that fights wildfires.

The winner of the GOP primary in this race will face Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) in the general election in November. One poll from October showed Tester getting 39% of the vote and Sheehy 35%.