More Than 2.8 Million Americans Identify As Transgender, Report Finds

Roughly 2.8 cardinal Americans who are 13 aliases older place arsenic transgender, according to a caller study.

The fig represents 1% of nan U.S. organization successful that property group, according to nan report published by nan Williams Institute astatine UCLA’s School of Law, which has been estimating nan transgender organization size since 2011.

According to nan study's findings, transgender individuals thin to beryllium younger than nan wide U.S. population.

More than 75% of transgender group ages 13 and older are nether 35, compared pinch 34% of nan full U.S. organization successful nan aforesaid property group.

Jody Herman, nan report's lead writer and a elder clever clever of nationalist argumentation astatine nan Williams Institute, said this inclination of younger generations being much apt to place arsenic transgender is expected to continue.

“Youth and young adults are much apt to place arsenic transgender owed to a assortment of factors, including a greater willingness among younger individuals to disclose that they place arsenic transgender connected surveys,” Herman said successful a news release.

Improvements successful information postulation for younker person helped supply much meticulous estimates of younker who place arsenic transgender, according to study co-author Andrew R. Flores, a distinguished visiting clever clever astatine nan Williams Institute and an adjunct professor of authorities astatine American University.

“Federal datasets that see questions astir intersexual predisposition and gender personality person provided captious accusation to researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and nan public,” Flores said successful nan news release.

The number of adults who place arsenic transgender has remained “fairly consistent” complete time, according to nan study.

The breakdown of adults who place arsenic transgender is almost an moreover divided betwixt transgender men, transgender women and nonbinary group — coming successful astatine 34.2%, 32.7% and 33.1%, respectively.

The study besides noted that nan title and ethnicity distribution of transgender individuals “appears akin to that of nan U.S. population.”

At nan authorities level, Minnesota was estimated to person nan highest percent of transgender adults, making up 1.2% of nan organization of group ages 18 aliases older, while Hawaii is reported to person nan highest percent of transgender youths, comprising 3.6% of nan organization successful nan 13 to 17 property group.

Researchers utilized information from nan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-administered nationalist wellness surveys called nan Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, nan study said.