The Pew Research Center conducted a survey last year that found 1% of US adults are nonbinary and 0.6% are trans men or trans women.
I discuss Pew's survey at length in the latest article on my blog, Meticulous Musings.
http://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/11/gender-identity-in-united-states.html
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My article contains additional information about Pew's survey that haven't previously been published.
One of these is that Pew's study found there are about as many trans men as trans women among US adults.
Both trans men and trans women comprise 0.3% of US adults.
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Pew also broke down its gender identity for several age groups, which it illustrated in the graph below.
Nonbinary Binary Trans Total
All Adults 1.0% 0.6% 1.6%
Ages 18-29 3.0% 2.0% 5.1%
Ages 30-49 1.3% 0.3% 1.6%
Ages 50+ 0.1% 0.2% 0.3%
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As you can see, transgender and nonbinary identity is more common among each younger age group.
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Just over 5% of US adults under 30 identify as either nonbinary, a trans woman, or a trans man, a significantly higher total than for older age groups.
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I also asked Pew for its data for 18 to 25 year olds, which Gallup described as Gen Z adults.
A total of 6.9% of this age group identifies as either nonbinary (4.1%) or binary transgender (2.8%).
That means more than 1 in 15 Gen Z adults identifies as nonbinary or transgender.
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@jasonbeets
Interesting.
Not being considered as a bias, though, is the change in societal definition of those terms with each generation. They have.
When Pew asks such questions to a member of a generation where such distinctions were nonexistant, you have a skewing of data. GenZ grew up with them with current definitions.
When the questions are identicaly worded and presented to each generation, you're still going to get them read differently by the respondents.
True.
But what the data does indicate is that the mental models people have for gender are different for different age groups, which is itself an interesting result.
I believe more people in the older generations would identify as nonbinary or transgender if they came of age at a time when those ideas were available and widespread.
@jasonbeets
I do believe we're talking about the same thing, but your term for it is "mental model"...a thing that is formed by the society one was raised in, and that's different for each generation. Well done.
