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The Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy, also known as WISOGILPP or usually shortened to Williams Institute, is a public policy research institute based at the UCLA School of Law focused on sexual orientation and gender identities issues.
The demographics of sexual orientation and gender identity in the United States have been studied in the social sciences in recent decades. A 2025 Gallup poll concluded that 9.3% of adult Americans identified as LGBTQ+. [1] A different survey in 2016, from the Williams Institute, estimated that 0.6% of U.S. adults identify as transgender. [2]
The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, a sexual orientation law think tank, released a study in April 2011 [117] estimating based on its research that 1.7 percent of American adults identify as gay or lesbian, while another 1.8 percent identify as bisexual. Drawing on information from four national and two state-level population-based ...
While at UCLA (1997-2007), Rubenstein founded the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, a think tank "dedicated to conducting rigorous, independent research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy" [1] [7] In 2000, he was chosen as that year's Honoring with Pride honoree by the American ...
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Rights to restrooms that match one's gender identity have also been recognized in the workplace and are actively being asserted in public accommodations. In Iowa, for example, discrimination in public accommodations on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity has been prohibited by law since 2007 through the Iowa Civil Rights Act. [334]
This isn’t entirely surprising. State standards for sex ed are hardly comprehensive. Even the most inclusive sexual health curriculums fail to adequately address female anatomy and sexual pleasure. These are the realities of sex ed standards, state-by-state. Graphics by Alissa Scheller. Source: Guttmacher Institute, April 2015
[39]-- have an executive order, administrative order, or personnel regulation prohibiting discrimination in public employment only based on either sexual orientation or gender identity: An additional 2 states -- Alaska and Missouri [40]-- and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands have executive orders prohibiting discrimination in ...