How many Americans are trans or nonbinary? Poll shows big difference between age groups
How many Americans say they are transgender or nonbinary?
There is a big difference between age groups when it comes to those who identify as trans or nonbinary (individuals who don’t identify as only male or female), according to poll results released Tuesday, June 7, by Pew Research Center.
According to the poll, adults under 30 were the most likely to say their gender was not the same as the sex that was assigned when they were born. That is out of 1.6% of survey respondents who said they were trans or nonbinary.
The Pew Research poll surveyed 10,188 adult Americans in May and had a margin of error of plus or minus 1.6 percentage points.
Roughly 5% of younger adults answered they were a transgender man or woman (2%) or nonbinary (3%), the poll found.
This compared with 1.6% of adults ages 30 to 49 who answered the same, according to Pew Research Center. Of this group, 0.3% said they were trans and 1.3% said they were nonbinary.
Meanwhile, older adults were the least likely to identify as a gender different from their assigned sex when they were born, the survey found. Roughly 0.3% said they were trans (0.2%) or nonbinary (0.1%).
Additionally, the poll discovered that “a rising share of adults,” nearly 50%, over the past few years “say they know a transgender person,” according to Pew Research Center.
What’s more is that 20% of Americans said they know someone who is nonbinary, the poll found.
The findings come as the U.S. celebrates LGBTQ Pride Month.
LGBTQ Pride is celebrated each June to commemorate New York City’s 1969 Stonewall riots, an event remembered as “a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States,” according to the Library of Congress.
Another poll conducted by Gallup found that 71% of Americans are in support of same-sex marriage, according to results released June 1. This compares with 27% of Americans who answered the same in 1996.
Those largely against same-sex marriage were described as regular churchgoers, according to Gallup.
This story was originally published June 7, 2022 at 5:26 PM with the headline "How many Americans are trans or nonbinary? Poll shows big difference between age groups."
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