National Center for Transgender Equality releases trans survey
BY ERIN REED | The early results of the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey are in, and they are stunning: For transgender individuals who have transitioned and are living as another gender, only 3 percent report lower satisfaction rates, with 79 percent stating they are “a lot more satisfied” after transitioning.
That number is even higher for trans people receiving gender-affirming care — 98 percent of trans individuals taking hormones are more satisfied with their lives.
These numbers challenge prevailing narratives in anti-trans media that trans people experience significant degrees of regret or resentment towards their transition, including those published in the New York Times last weekend.
The survey managed to get responses from over 90,000 trans people — more than three times the responses of the 2015 survey. This number represents a significant fraction of the estimated 1.6 million trans people in the U.S., and immediately becomes the largest dataset on trans people in history.
