Roughly 5% of Americans aged 18 to 29 identify as transgender or nonbinary, a Pew Research Center survey released Tuesday finds, more than any other adult age group.
About 2% of respondents ages 18 to 29 said they are transgender, and 3% said they are nonbinary.
That’s significantly higher than the 0.6% of respondents of all ages who said they are transgender and 1% who said they are nonbinary.
Some 1.6% of respondents 30 to 45 said they are transgender or nonbinary, and 0.3% of respondents 50 or over.
Pew found 44% of respondents knew someone personally who is transgender, up from 37% in 2017, and 20% of respondents said they know someone personally who is nonbinary.
Pew surveyed over 10,000 people from May 16 to 22.
In 2020, 5.6% of U.S. adults identified as LGBTQ, up from 4.5% in 2017, according to a Gallup survey. Among members of Generation Z, those born between 1997 and 2002, 15.9% identified as LGBTQ. A vast majority of LGBTQ respondents in this age group, 72%, said they are bisexual.
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