probability RDD
Gallup
Gallup LGBTQ+ Identification (2025 aggregate) · Jan 2025 – Dec 31, 2025 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Gallup independent
- Sponsor
- Gallup
- Fielded
- Jan 2025 – Dec 31, 2025
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 13,454
- Sample frame
- probability RDD
- Mode
- telephone - dual-frame RDD, live interviewer, fielded by ReconMR; combined random samples from Gallup's 2025 telephone polls
- Margin of error
- ±1 percentage point
- Weighting
- Gallup standard demographic weighting
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- 832 LGBTQ+ adults, MOE ±4 percentage points
Sources
Verification note. Survey Methods paragraph read from the Gallup release. Transgender share of all adults (1.1%) and of LGBTQ+ adults (12.1%) recovered from coverage quoting Gallup's table; Gallup's page text gives the transgender share of the LGBTQ+ population as 12%.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (1)
self-identification as transgender
Which of the following do you consider yourself to be? You can select as many as apply: Straight or heterosexual; Lesbian; Gay; Bisexual; Transgender.
Wording notes: mixes sexual orientation and gender identity in one select-all list | asked as a demographic item
unclear — not an attitude item; combined orientation/identity list likely understates transgender prevalence
Subgroup figures (1)