One in 8 Americans are Nonbinary or Trans, or Have a Family Member Who Is
The Economist, found that 3 percent viewed themselves as transgender or nonbinary, and a further 9 percent said someone in their family was.
The survey was weighted 33% Democratic, 31% Republican.Combined, the results would suggest that there is a transgender or nonbinary person in roughly one in every four households in the U.S.With transgender rights and inclusion a hot topic and culture-war battleground, the results of the YouGov survey, along with a prior poll of the same number of U.S.
adults conducted on behalf of Newsweek, suggest many have been influenced by discussion in the media and in politics to think transgender individuals represent a larger proportion of the populous.The YouGov poll found that a combined 12 percent of respondents said they had a transgender or nonbinary person in their family, including if that person was themselves.
Assuming that there are 2.6 people per U.S. household on average, according to 2020 U.S. census data, that would mean that there is one transgender or nonbinary person for every four households.It also showed that 10 percent of those asked had a close friend who was transgender or nonbinary, 23 percent knew someone who was either, and a further 58 percent had no relations to a transgender or nonbinary individual.A June 2022 study by the UCLA Williams Institute found that in the U.S., around 0.5 percent of adults identify as transgender—equivalent to 1.3 million people—with the number being slightly higher, 0.6 percent, among those aged 13 and above.
