How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States?

The Williams Institute ^ | Aug 2025 | Jody L. Herman and Andrew R. Flores

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Executive Summary

In this report, we use the best available data to provide new estimates of the size and characteristics of the U.S. population, aged 13 and older, who identify as transgender. Data come from the 2021- 2023 Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and the 2021 and 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS).

Key Findings

• Over 2.8 million adults (aged 18 and older) and youth (aged 13 to 17) identify as transgender in the United States, or 1.0% of those aged 13 and older.
• Among U.S. adults, 0.8% (over 2.1 million people) identify as transgender. Among youth aged 13 to 17 in the U.S., 3.3% (about 724,000 youth) identify as transgender.
• Of the 2.1 million adults who identify as transgender, 32.7% (698,500) are transgender women, 34.2% (730,500) are transgender men, and 33.1% (707,100) are transgender nonbinary adults.

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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 2ndpeter2vvs6thru9; fakenews; fakestudies; genesischapter19; godlessreprobates; homosexualagenda; lgbt; lgbtq; luke17; romans1; sodomandgomorrah; trans; transgender

[SaveFerris]

They told me that they had one guy
where the DMV accidentally marked
him as female

So he checks the female box until
he can get the DMV to correct things

They seemed to indicate that it’s a
genuine error - I’ll ask when I’m
there again.

But the others, yeah they’re apparently
“gender confused”

[Elsie]

Thanks, I’m glad someone has a wee bit of sympathy for me, since I was born at a very early age.

[mairdie]

Clapping! Adorable!