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KFKFFContact & populationApr 14–19, 2026
share of U.S. adults who describe themselves as trans or transgender
Asked in the demographic block, immediately after RGENDER ('(IF PHONE: Just to confirm,) Do you describe yourself as a man, a woman, or in some other way?') and before the LGBQ sexual-orientation item
Do you currently describe yourself as trans or transgender?
Base: 1,023 reached through the SSRS Opinion Panel (999 online, 24 by phone) and 320 through the prepaid cell phone RDD sample (140 by phone, 180 invited to web by SMS); 1,251 in English and 92 in Spanish; no cases removed by quality checks
Wording notes: two-step gender measure: current gender description asked first, trans status secondrounded to whole percentages, so the published value carries substantial rounding error at a base rate of 1-2 percentcombined with the LGBQ item into KFF's LGBT_Total / LGBTQ_TOT summary variable
Response options as the pollster wrote them
KFKFFContact & populationJul 8–14, 2025
share of U.S. adults who describe themselves as trans or transgender
Asked in the demographic block, immediately after RGENDER ('(IF PHONE: Just to confirm,) Do you describe yourself as a man, a woman, or in some other way?') and before the LGBQ sexual-orientation item
Do you currently describe yourself as trans or transgender?
Base: 1,004 reached through the SSRS Opinion Panel (979 online, 25 by phone) and 279 through the prepaid cell phone RDD sample (135 by phone, 144 invited to web by SMS); 1,212 in English and 71 in Spanish; 1 case removed by quality checks
Wording notes: two-step gender measure: current gender description asked first, trans status secondrounded to whole percentages, so the published value carries substantial rounding error at a base rate of 1-2 percentcombined with the LGBQ item into KFF's LGBT_Total / LGBTQ_TOT summary variable
Response options as the pollster wrote them
KFKFFContact & populationJun 4–8, 2025
share of U.S. adults who describe themselves as trans or transgender
Asked in the demographic block, immediately after RGENDER ('(IF PHONE: Just to confirm,) Do you describe yourself as a man, a woman, or in some other way?') and before the LGBQ sexual-orientation item
Do you currently describe yourself as trans or transgender?
Base: 1,032 reached through the SSRS Opinion Panel (1,005 online, 27 by phone) and 289 through the prepaid cell phone RDD sample (152 by phone, 137 invited to web by SMS); 1,258 in English and 63 in Spanish; no cases removed by quality checks
Wording notes: two-step gender measure: current gender description asked first, trans status secondrounded to whole percentages, so the published value carries substantial rounding error at a base rate of 1-2 percentcombined with the LGBQ item into KFF's LGBT_Total / LGBTQ_TOT summary variable
Response options as the pollster wrote them