According to a new study, approximately 2.8 million Americans who are 13 years or more identify as a transgender.
The figure represents 1% of the American population in that age group, according to the report published by the Williams Institute of the UCLA Law Faculty, which has been estimating the size of the transgender population since 2011.
According to study findings, transgender people tend to be younger than the general population of the United States.
More than 75% of transgender people of 13 years or more are less than 35 years old, compared to 34% of the entire American population in the same age group.
Jody Herman, main author of the report and main scholar of public policies at the Williams Institute, said that this tendency of younger generations is more likely to identify as transgender continues.
“Young young people and adults are more likely to identify as a transgender due to a variety of factors, including a greater disposition among younger people to reveal that they identify as transgender in surveys,” said Herman in a press release.
The improvements in data collection for young people have helped provide more precise estimates of young people who identify as transgender, according to the co -author of the Andrew R. Flores study, a distinguished visiting scholar at the Williams Institute and Assistant Government Assistant Professor at the American University.
“Federal data sets that include questions about sexual orientation and gender identity have provided critical information to researchers, doctors, policy formulators and the public,” Flores said in the press release.
The number of adults that are identified as transgender has remained “quite consistent” over time, according to the study.
The breakdown of adults that are identified as transgender is almost a uniform division between transgender men, transgender women and non -binary people, which reaches 34.2%, 32.7%and 33.1%, respectively.
The study also pointed out that the distribution of race and ethnicity of transgender individuals “seems similar to that of the American population.”
At the state level, it is estimated that Minnesota had the highest percentage of transgender adults, which represents 1.2% of the population of people 18 years of age or older, while Hawaii has the highest percentage of transgender youth, which includes 3.6% of the population in the age group of 13 to 17 years.
The researchers used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Public Health Surveys administered by the prevention called System of Surveillance of Behavior Risk Factors and Surveillance System of Youth Risk Behavior, the study said.
