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.
The new survey covers topics such as whether the public thinks society is moving too quickly or not quickly enough on gender identity issues.
The public is sharply divided along partisan lines on topics ranging from what should be taught in schools to how much influence parents should have over the curriculum.
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.
A majority of Americans say the country still hasn’t gone far enough in giving women equal rights with men.
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.
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.
Take our quiz to find out how your views on gender and gender equality stack up against those of the American public.
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