probability RDD
Williams Institute (UCLA)
How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States? (August 2025 update) · Jan 2021 – Dec 31, 2023 · US national, regional and 50-state plus DC estimates
Methodology
- Pollster
- Williams Institute (UCLA) academic
- Sponsor
- The Williams Institute
- Fielded
- Jan 2021 – Dec 31, 2023
- Population
- adults 18+ (BRFSS) and high school students ages 13-17 (YRBS)
- Sample size
- —
- Sample frame
- probability RDD
- Mode
- BRFSS: telephone (landline and cellular), interviewer-administered. YRBS: self-administered in-school questionnaire.
- Margin of error
- credible intervals published per estimate
- Weighting
- survey weights plus advanced statistical modeling (multilevel regression with poststratification)
- Geography
- US national, regional and 50-state plus DC estimates
- Base notes
- 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.
Sources
Verification note. Population estimate, not an opinion poll. Figures read from the report's executive summary and the Williams Institute publication page. The report notes its adult estimate 'does not significantly differ from our prior estimates for adults' despite rising from 0.5% to 0.8%, and that the youth estimate rose sharply (1.4% to 3.3%) partly because more states and years of YRBS data are now available.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (1)
estimated share and number of adults and youth who identify as transgender
Do you consider yourself to be transgender?
Identify as transgender (over 2.8 million)
1%
neutral — See the 2014 record.
Subgroup figures (9)