Transgender Polling Archive
nonprobability quota

The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health · Sep 20, 2021 – Dec 31, 2021 · US national

Methodology

Pollster
The Trevor Project advocacy_left
Sponsor
The Trevor Project
Fielded
Sep 20, 2021 – Dec 31, 2021
Population
LGBTQ young people ages 13-24 - nonprobability social-media-recruited sample, NOT a poll of the general public
Sample size
33,993
Sample frame
nonprobability quota
Mode
online self-administered questionnaire (maximum 143 questions), quantitative cross-sectional design; suicide items drawn from the CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Margin of error
not applicable - nonprobability sample
Weighting
not weighted; targeted recruitment used to secure adequate sample sizes by geography, gender identity and race/ethnicity
Geography
US national
Base notes
48% of the sample was transgender or nonbinary and 45% were LGBTQ youth of color. 114,288 individuals from unique IP addresses began the survey; screening, a mid-survey validity check, honesty checks and mischievous-responder screening produced the final analytic sample.

Sources

Verification note. NONPROBABILITY COMMUNITY SAMPLE recruited through targeted social-media advertising. Methodology and percentages read directly from the report PDF. This is the wave with the fullest anti-transgender-legislation battery.

Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.

Questions asked (2)

Political salienceparaphrasedmultiple responsein a trend series
worry about anti-transgender state and local laws (care, sports, bathrooms)

Anti-Transgender Legislation

93% of transgender and nonbinary youth said that they have worried about transgender people being denied access to gender-affirming medical care due to state or local laws. 91% of transgender and nonbinary youth said that they have worried about transgender people being denied access to the bathroom due to state or local laws. 83% of transgender and nonbinary youth said that they have worried about transgender people being denied the ability to play sports due to state or local laws.

Wording reconstructed from: The Trevor Project 2022 National Survey PDF, p.14, 'Anti-Transgender Legislation' panel. These are the report's restatements of three items; the literal stems were not printed.

Wording notes: items measure worry, not policy opinion | asked only of transgender and nonbinary respondents

unclear — Literal wording unavailable. As restated the items ask about worry regarding denial of access, which presupposes the framing that these laws deny access; that framing is contested by the laws' sponsors.

Subgroup figures (3)

other

GroupWorried about transgender people being denied access to gender-affirming medical care due to state or local lawsWorried about transgender people being denied access to the bathroom due to state or local lawsWorried about transgender people being denied the ability to play sports due to state or local laws
Transgender and nonbinary youth93%91%83%
Surveys of trans peopleparaphrasedother
poor mental health attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, by gender identity

56% of LGBTQ youth reported that their mental health was poor most of the time or always due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including more than 3 in 5 transgender and nonbinary youth (62%) and nearly half of cisgender youth (49%).

Wording reconstructed from: The Trevor Project 2022 National Survey PDF, p.13. Report narrative.

Mental health poor most of the time or always due to COVID-19
56%

neutral — Frequency-scale self-report.

Subgroup figures (2)

other

GroupMental health poor most of the time or always due to COVID-19
Transgender and nonbinary youth62%
Cisgender LGBQ youth49%

Every figure on this page is transcribed from the source linked above. How to read this data →