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Williams Institute (UCLA)Contact & populationJan 2021 – Dec 31, 2023estimated share and number of adults and youth who identify as transgender
Do you consider yourself to be transgender?
Base: Pooled 2021-2023 BRFSS across the 41 states that used the optional gender identity module in at least one of those years, plus the 2021 and 2023 YRBS. Pooled respondent counts were not printed in the sections retrieved.
Response options as the pollster wrote them
Williams Institute (UCLA)Contact & populationJan 2017 – Dec 31, 2020 estimated share and number of adults and youth who identify as transgender
Do you consider yourself to be transgender?
Base: Pooled 2017-2020 BRFSS across the 43 states that had used the optional gender identity module at least once, plus the 2017 and 2019 YRBS across the 15 states that included the transgender question. Pooled respondent counts were not printed in the sections retrieved.
Wording notes: combines an interviewer-administered adult measure with a self-administered youth measure, which is one reason the adult and youth rates differ so sharply
Response options as the pollster wrote them
Williams Institute (UCLA)NondiscriminationparaphrasedJan 2017 – Dec 31, 2017 general protection of transgender people from discrimination
Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements.
Transgender people should be protected from discrimination.
Base: U.S. arm of a multi-country study; restricted to ages 18-64
Wording notes: abstract 'protected from discrimination' framing without naming domains, which sits between Gallup's abstract 'new civil rights laws' item and PRRI's concrete jobs/housing/accommodations itemagree/disagree construction, subject to acquiescence
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly agree
- Somewhat agree
- Somewhat disagree
- Strongly disagree
- Don't know
Williams Institute (UCLA)Adult medical careparaphrasedJan 2017 – Dec 31, 2017 access to gender-affirming surgery
Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements.
Transgender people should be allowed to have gender-affirming surgery.
Base: U.S. arm of a multi-country study; restricted to ages 18-64
Wording notes: does not specify age, payer or provider - a permissive framing relative to later items that name minors or insurance
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly agree
- Somewhat agree
- Somewhat disagree
- Strongly disagree
- Don't know
Williams Institute (UCLA)General acceptanceparaphrasedJan 2017 – Dec 31, 2017 whether the U.S. should do more to support and protect transgender people
Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements.
I would like the U.S. to do more to support and protect transgender people.
Base: U.S. arm of a multi-country study; restricted to ages 18-64
Wording notes: a 'do more' item, which measures desired direction of change rather than support for a specific policy - it draws 22 points less agreement than the abstract nondiscrimination item in the same battery
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly agree
- Somewhat agree
- Somewhat disagree
- Strongly disagree
- Don't know
Williams Institute (UCLA)General acceptanceparaphrasedJan 2017 – Dec 31, 2017 perceived direction of societal tolerance
Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements.
The U.S. is becoming more tolerant of transgender people.
Base: U.S. arm of a multi-country study; restricted to ages 18-64
Wording notes: a perception item, not an attitude item - agreement does not indicate the respondent's own view
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Strongly agree
- Somewhat agree
- Somewhat disagree
- Strongly disagree
- Don't know
Williams Institute (UCLA)Contact & populationJan 2014 – Dec 31, 2014 self-identification as transgender on the BRFSS optional gender identity module
If the interviewer is asked for a definition of transgender, they respond: Some people describe themselves as transgender when they experience a different gender identity from their sex at birth. For example, a person born into a male body, but who feels female or lives as a woman would be transgender. Some transgender people change their physical appearance so that it matches their internal gender identity. Some transgender people take hormones and some have surgery. A transgender person may be of any sexual orientation - straight, gay, lesbian, or bisexual.
Do you consider yourself to be transgender?
Identify as transgender
0.6%
Yes - consider self transgender
0.5%
- Sample
- 151,456 adults 18+ · not applicable in the usual sense - the report publishes Bayesian credible intervals around each state estimate
- Method
- probability RDD
- Where
- US national and 50-state estimates, based on 19 states that fielded the BRFSS gender identity module
- Source
- Pollster release↗(opens another site)PDF, external
Full record
Base: 151,456 BRFSS respondents in the 19 opt-in states answered the transgender question. The 19 states were Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Wording notes: single-item self-identification measure rather than the two-step sex-assigned-at-birth plus current-gender approachthe definition is read only on request, so respondents who do not ask may interpret 'transgender' differentlyasked by a live interviewer, which is known to depress disclosure relative to self-administered modes
Response options as the pollster wrote them