5 key findings about LGBTQ+ Americans
As the United States celebrates Pride month, here are five key findings about LGBTQ+ Americans.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
As the United States celebrates Pride month, here are five key findings about LGBTQ+ Americans.
1.6% of U.S. adults are transgender or nonbinary. Also, a rising share of Americans say they know someone who is transgender.
There is no public consensus on whether greater social acceptance of transgender people is good or bad for society.
Americans’ comfort levels with using gender-neutral pronouns to refer to someone have remained static since 2017.
A majority of LGB adults report that they have used an online dating site or app, roughly twice the share of straight adults who say the same.
Only 19% of those who identify as bisexual say all or most of the important people in their lives are aware of their sexual orientation.
The share of Americans who favor same sex marriage has grown in recent years, though there are still demographic and partisan divides.
While eight-in-ten Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say that whether someone is a man or a woman is determined by the sex they were assigned at birth, most Democrats and Democratic leaners (64%) take the opposite view and say a person’s gender can be different from the sex they were assigned at birth.
Americans’ views toward those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) have changed substantially in recent years.
While a growing number of LGBT politicians have been elected to public office and attitudes toward the LGBT community have become much more favorable over the past decade, survey data suggest that being gay or lesbian remains an obstacle for candidates running for president.
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