Transgender Action Online

Samantha

News Staff

From: Seattle, WA, USA

Registered: 2023-05-06

Posts: 13

How many trans people are in the US

https://www.politifact.com/article/2023 … s-and-why/

How many trans people are in the US — and why Americans often overestimate

PolitiFact | Surveys show that people overestimate what percentage of the population is transgender.

By

    Grace AbelsPolitiFact

Published July 13

State legislators introduced hundreds of 2023 bills targeting transgender Americans and affecting access to health care, education policy and sports. To hear the political discourse, it sounds at times as if the United States’ transgender population is large, booming and influential.

“Trans ideology is coming after our children,” tweeted U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on July 11.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy misleadingly described being transgender as a “social contagion” and a mental illness that is spreading “like wildfire across this country.”

The Twitter account Gays Against Groomers alerted its 343,000 followers July 5 to a notable figure: “New data finds that there has been a 4000% spike in students that identify as non-binary in New Jersey.” Last year, it reported in another tweet that a follower said “40% of her child’s friends identify as non-binary or trans” and then emphasized the 40%.

But is the U.S. transgender population really exploding? And what does data tell us about how many trans people there are in the U.S.?

PolitiFact reporters Louis Jacobson, Sevana Wenn, and Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa contributed to this story.

Last edited by SarahEL (2023-07-17 21:58:40)