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A February 2021 Gallup poll reported that 5.6% of US adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. 86.7% said that they were heterosexual or straight, and 7.6% refused to answer. More than half of all LGBT adults identify as bisexual (54.6%), while around a quarter (24.5%) identify as gay, 11.7% as lesbian, and 11.3% as transgender.
New laws targeting LGBTQ+ people are proliferating in GOP-led states, but often absent from policy decisions is a clear understanding of how many people will be directly affected. There has been ...
As of 2021, 77 transgender, non-binary, intersex, and genderqueer officials served in public elected positions. [1] This represented a nearly fivefold increase from 2018, when only 16 openly transgender individuals had been elected to office in the United States. [2]
The 1950s and 1960s saw some of the first transgender organizations and publications, but law and medicine did not respond favorably to growing awareness of transgender people. The most famous American transgender person of the time was Christine Jorgensen, who in 1952 became the first widely publicized person to have undergone gender-affirming ...
In 2024, Sarah McBride was elected as the nation's first openly transgender member of Congress. There are 14 openly LGBTQ members of the current (119th) Congress, all of whom are Democrats. One is a senator and the rest are House representatives.
Approximately 1.3 million adults and 300,000 youths identify as transgender in the U.S., and among them, it’s clear that a level of panic is ensuing.
A new analysis finds more than 5,000 transgender American kids were operated on. Over 5,700 American children had trans surgery between 2019 and 2023, medical group claims: ‘Treated like guinea ...
Many transgender people experience gender dysphoria, ... which was designed by the American transgender woman Monica Helms in 1999, ...