According to the most recent national estimates, there are 1.6 million people in the United States who are trans and 43 percent of them are under the age of 18.
1.5 percent of 13- to 17-year-olds and 1.3 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds were trans, according to the analysis.
It was found that the estimate of trans people 13 to 25 doubled since the previous report was published.
There is a shift in the data. Older adults may feel more constrained due to the fact that young people have the language and social acceptance to explore their genders. The numbers vary from state to state, raising questions about cultural drivers such as the role of peer influence or the political climate of the community.
Dr. Goepferd is the medical director of the gender health program at Children's Hospital Minnesota. Generationally, gender has become a part of a person's identity that is more accepted to explore.
Many teenagers don't want or need surgery to transition to another gender, as was typical of older generations, according to Dr. Goepferd, who is non-binary.
The surveys created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not ask younger teenagers about their gender identity. A quarter of the adults who said they were trans identified as gender non conforming, meaning they did not identify as a trans man or woman.
Dr. Goepferd said that there is gender diversity in the culture. We as a society need to make space for that because it doesn't mean that we need to treat it medically all the time.
43 percent of the trans population is made up of teenagers and adults under the age of 25.
Teens and adults who are trans.
The ages of teens and adults in the US.
The new data was analyzed by researchers at the Williams Institute, a research center at the University of California, Los Angeles law school.
The study found that teenagers made up a large portion of the population. Younger teenagers made up just 7.6 percent of the total US population. The 18 to 24 year olds made up 11 percent of the total population but 24 percent of the trans population.
Older adults had a disproportionate small share of the population. Only 10 percent of the total number of trans people nationwide are over the age of 65.
Data from two national sources were used by The Williams Institute. A variety of medical and behavioral information, such as smoking habits, H.I.V. status, nutrition and exercise, are collected in the surveys.
The high school survey used to ask if the student was trans. The question was included in high school surveys in 15 states and in adult surveys in 41 states over the course of the last three years.
This data was used by the Williams Institute to arrive at its estimates of the trans population.
Jody Herman is a senior scholar at the Williams Institute and the lead author of the report. We need more and better data all the time.
The Census Bureau started asking about sexual orientation and gender identity last year. National suicide statistics don't have information about sexuality or gender identity.
There is no one who knows how many people died of suicide in the past year, and no one who knows how many people are trans.
The government doesn't collect that data in death records. We are trying to change it.
The Williams Institute did not have survey data for younger teenagers when they published their previous report. Roughly 0.7 percent of teens in the country are considered to be trans.
The estimate has doubled with the addition of the high school survey data.
It's not clear if that jump is a result of the previous estimate being incorrect or a true increase in the number of trans adolescents.
The question of why this is happening is confusing.
The makeup of the two groups was the same. Half of both groups were white, slightly less than the number of white people in the general population, and a disproportionately large number of Latino.
Data shows the distribution of trans people by state. New York has the largest estimated population of trans teens at 3 percent. In North Carolina and Missouri, a small number of people identify as trans.
Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont and Wisconsin were included in the survey. The researchers created a model of how state and individual characteristics affect the likelihood of being trans. They used that model and demographic data from the census to make estimates for the other 35 states.
There are 1.6 million people in the United States who are trans.
When gay and lesbian people came out in large numbers for the first time, experts who worked with them agreed that certain social factors would play a part in their identities.
Phillip Hammack is the director of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As we saw more visibility around labeling oneself as gay, lesbian, bisexual back in the 90's, I think we saw something like that.
The Williams Institute analyzed recent Gallup polling data and found that young adults make up a large portion of the total L.G.B.T.Q. population in the United States.
Teenagers are questioning their gender identities as a result of using social media.
The internet is definitely a part of it, according to Indigo Giles, a college student in Austin who has protested against the state of Texas.
M x. Giles said they found a community of like minded people on the internet. They said that people who have been having these feelings for a long time, but haven't had the words to say to them, finally can see that others feel the same.
It may be more difficult for older people to explore their gender identities.
A person who was interviewed by Dr. Hammack talked about how difficult it was to come out in their fifties because they were so young. He said that people who identified as masculine or butch lesbians have told him that it wasn't available when he was younger.
Lower access to health care, along with high rates of violence and suicide, may be one reason for the smaller proportion of older trans people.
They said that we don't have trans elders because they didn't survive
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