1.4 Million Adults Identify As Transgender In America, Study Says : The Two-Way : NPR

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  • 1.4 Million Adults Identify As Transgender In America, Study Says : The Two-Way : NPR
    http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/30/484253324/1-4-million-adults-identify-as-transgender-in-america-study-says


    A map of the U.S. shows the number of adults who identify as transgender by state. Darker colors indicate a higher percentage.
    Williams Institute

    The numbers fluctuate by state, but they also double the findings from a decade ago: An estimated 1.4 million people – around 0.6 percent of U.S. adults — identify as transgender, according to a new study.
    […]
    The fully urban District of Columbia has the highest percentage of adults who identify as transgender, with 14,550 people — around 2.77 percent of the federal district’s population.

    Several states have 100,000 or more people who identify as transgender, according to the researchers: California, with 218,000; Florida, with 100,300; and Texas, with 125,350.

    The highest percentages of adults identifying as transgender per state were found in Hawaii, California, Georgia, and New Mexico — all with 0.8 percent — followed by Texas and Florida with 0.7 percent, according to the study.

    Five states were found to have the lowest percentages of transgender-identified adults, all with 0.3 percent: North Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota.

    • L’étude How Many Adults Identify as Transgender in the United States ?
      http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/How-Many-Adults-Identify-as-Transgender-in-the-United-St

      et sa méthodologie dans le résumé

      This report utilizes data from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to estimate the percentage and number of adults who identify as transgender nationally and in all 50 states.
      […]
      To estimate the population by state, we relied on multilevel regression and post-stratification.

      Dans le détail de la méthodologie, il s’agit d’un module optionnel (par état) de l’enquête nationale de la CDC.

      Since this question is included in an optional module, some states did not ask this question while others did. The 19 states that did ask this question include: Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

      In total, 0.52% of BRFSS respondents in these states identified as transgender, and 151,456 respondents answered this question.

      Et les détails sur le questionnaire

      The BRFSS contains optional module questionnaires in addition to its standard questionnaire for each state.9 The 2014 BRFSS had 19 optional modules that states were able to opt-into. One of the modules contained the following question:
      Do you consider yourself to be transgender?
      • Yes
      • No

      [If Yes] Do you consider yourself to be male-to-female, female-to-male, or gender non-conforming?
      If the interviewer is asked for a definition of transgender, they respond:
      Some people describe themselves as transgender when they experience a different gender identity from their sex at birth. For example, a person born into a male body, but who feels female or lives as a woman would be transgender. Some transgender people change their physical appearance so that it matches their internal gender identity. Some transgender people take hormones and some have surgery. A transgender person may be of any sexual orientation – straight, gay, lesbian, or bisexual.