nonprobability quotasurvey of transgender people, not of the public

The Trevor Project

2025 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People · Jan 2025 – Dec 31, 2025 · 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: Jan 2025 – Dec 31, 2025
Population: LGBTQ+ young people ages 13-24 living in the United States
Sample size: 16,000
Sample frame: nonprobability quota
Mode: online survey recruited through targeted ads on social media
Margin of error: not disclosed
Weighting: not disclosed
Geography: US national
Base notes: transgender and nonbinary respondents reported as a subgroup throughout

Sources

Verification note. Percentages from the Trevor Project's published 2025 survey summary (released May 6, 2026). FIELD DATES NOT RETRIEVED - recorded as calendar-year 2025 with year precision; the exact fielding window and the exact analytic n (published only as 'over 16,000') must be confirmed against the full report. NONPROBABILITY social-media-recruited sample.

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

Questions asked (2)

Surveys of trans peopleparaphrasedotherin a trend series

discrimination, threats, conversion-therapy exposure and access to gender-affirming care reported by transgender and nonbinary youth

[Instrument wording is not published on the public summary page. Items covered: discrimination because of gender identity; being physically threatened or harmed because of gender identity; being threatened with or subjected to conversion therapy; current use of hormones or puberty blockers; concern about losing access to hormone care; access to gender-neutral school bathrooms; whether household members respect the respondent's pronouns.]

Wording reconstructed from: The Trevor Project annual national survey summary page

Wording notes: self-selected respondents recruited by ads targeted at LGBTQ youth

unclear — verbatim wording unavailable; the advocacy-recruited sample frame is the dominant methodological caveat

Subgroup figures (10)

age

Group	Attempted suicide in the past year	Taking gender-affirming hormones
Transgender and nonbinary young people ages 13-17	13%	10%

lgbtq_status

Group	Seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year	Attempted suicide in the past year	Felt discriminated against because of gender identity	Physically threatened or harmed because of gender identity	Threatened with or subjected to conversion therapy	Unable to access the mental health care they wanted	Concerned about losing access to hormone care	Experienced difficulties accessing gender-affirming care
Transgender and nonbinary young people	40%	11%	48%	23%	16%	43%	87%	75%

Political salienceparaphrasedotherin a trend series

self-reported effect of recent anti-LGBTQ+ laws and politics on trans and nonbinary youth

[Instrument wording is not published on the public summary page. Items covered: whether recent politics and anti-LGBTQ+ laws negatively affected the respondent's wellbeing, feeling unsafe, and whether the respondent or their family considered moving to a different state.]

Wording reconstructed from: The Trevor Project annual national survey summary page

Wording notes: asks respondents to attribute their own distress to a named political cause, which invites acquiescence

unclear — verbatim wording unavailable; attribution-style items of this kind typically return very high agreement

Subgroup figures (5)

lgbtq_status

Group	Reported stress or anxiety because of recent anti-LGBTQ+ laws and policies	Felt unsafe because of these policies	Said the policies negatively affected their mental health	Considered relocating to a different state	Felt unsafe accessing medical care
Transgender and nonbinary young people	94%	86%	83%	38%	29%

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