Overview

• About 1% of Americans aged 13 and older identify as transgender, including roughly 0.8% of adults and 3.3% of teens 13–17, or an estimated 724,000 youth.
• Younger cohorts are disproportionately represented, with people under 35 comprising about three-quarters of the transgender population and 18–24-year-olds at 2.72%.
• The estimate uses CDC BRFSS and YRBS data from 2021–2023 plus state health records and modeling, and researchers caution that methodological changes complicate strict trend comparisons.
• Rates are broadly similar across regions; Minnesota has the highest adult rate at 1.2% and Hawaii the highest youth rate at 3.6%.
• The report flags Trump administration efforts to remove gender-identity questions from CDC, DOJ and Census surveys as a threat to future data, and notes the estimates were cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in a recent ruling.