nonprobability quotasurvey of transgender people, not of the public
The Trevor Project
2023 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People · Sep 2022 – Dec 12, 2022 · US national
Not a public-opinion poll. This surveys transgender people about their own lives, mostly
through nonprobability community samples. It describes a population and is not comparable with polls of the general public.
Methodology
- Pollster
- The Trevor Project advocacy_left
- Sponsor
- The Trevor Project
- Fielded
- Sep 2022 – Dec 12, 2022
- Population
- LGBTQ young people ages 13-24 living in the United States
- Sample size
- 28,524
- Sample frame
- nonprobability quota
- Mode
- online survey recruited through targeted social media advertising (not through Trevor Project's own channels), with targeted recruitment to balance geography, gender identity, and race/ethnicity
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- not disclosed
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- 28,524 analyzed from 35,208 eligible respondents after validity checks; transgender and nonbinary respondents reported as a subgroup throughout
Sources
Verification note. Percentages taken from the Trevor Project's published 2023 survey landing page. NONPROBABILITY social-media-recruited sample of self-identified LGBTQ youth; not projectable to all LGBTQ youth. Several headline figures are published only as fractions ('half', 'nearly 1 in 5') rather than exact percentages, and the survey instrument's verbatim wording was not retrieved.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (2)
discrimination, threats, denial of care and conversion-therapy exposure reported by transgender and nonbinary youth
[Instrument wording not published on the public summary page. Items covered: experience of discrimination because of gender identity; being physically threatened or harmed because of gender identity; being threatened with or subjected to conversion therapy; ability to access wanted mental health care; concern about losing access to gender-affirming hormones.]
Wording reconstructed from: The Trevor Project 2023 survey summary page; item-level verbatim wording not published there
Wording notes: self-selected respondents recruited by ads targeted at LGBTQ youth
unclear — verbatim wording unavailable; the sample frame is advocacy-recruited, which is the dominant methodological caveat
Subgroup figures (3)
suicide attempts by whether household members respect pronouns, school gender-neutral bathroom access, and access to gender-affirming clothing
[Instrument wording not published on the public summary page. Reported as past-year suicide attempt rates cross-tabulated against pronoun respect at home, access to gender-neutral bathrooms at school, and access to gender-affirming clothing.]
Wording reconstructed from: The Trevor Project 2023 survey summary page
unclear — verbatim wording unavailable
Subgroup figures (4)