(2022-06-30) How Many Adults And Youth Identify As Transgender In The United States

How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States? The percentage and number of adults who identify as transgender in the U.S. has remained steady over time. Our estimate of the number of youth who identify as transgender has doubled from our previous estimate.

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In 2016 and 2017, the Williams Institute used data from the 2014-15 BRFSS to estimate the number of adults (ages 18 and older) and youth (ages 13 to 17) who identify as transgender

In this study, we use data from the 2017 and 2019 YRBS and the 2017- 2020 BRFSS