About 5% of young adults in the U.S. say their gender is different from their sex assigned at birth
1.6% of U.S. adults are transgender or nonbinary. Also, a rising share of Americans say they know someone who is transgender.
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1.6% of U.S. adults are transgender or nonbinary. Also, a rising share of Americans say they know someone who is transgender.
Most favor protecting trans people from discrimination, but fewer support policies related to medical care for gender transitions; many are uneasy with the pace of change on trans issues.
Currently, 55% of U.S. adults express at least some support for the Black Lives Matter movement, unchanged from a year ago.
Black adults are about five times as likely as whites to say they’ve been unfairly stopped by police because of their race or ethnicity.
A new Pew Research Center survey finds that 1.6% of U.S. adults are transgender or nonbinary – that is, their gender is different from the sex they were assigned at birth.
Veterans and non-veterans in the United States largely align when it comes to the decision to pull all troops out of Afghanistan.
52% of US adults say it is very or somewhat important that companies and organizations make public statements about political or social issues.
About four-in-ten Black and Asian adults say people have acted as if they were uncomfortable around them because of their race or ethnicity since the beginning of the outbreak, and similar shares say they worry that other people might be suspicious of them if they wear a mask when out in public, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Americans who recently protested are more likely to live in an urban area and to identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party.
While the CDC has pointed to some possible factors that may be contributing to this pattern, the public is divided in its perceptions.
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