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There were not enough transgender Americans in our survey to explore their answers to this question by gender.

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The Center conducts high-quality research to inform the public, journalists and decision-makers. was a great year for the girls, as tons of women in the spotlight came out and showed us their authentic selves. It seems like lesbians, sapphics, queer, and trans women keep winning!

The ATP is a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly. Learn more about Pew Research Center. Queer adults are included in the total results of LGBTQ adults in this survey and in the lesbian or gay, bisexual, and transgender totals if they indicated they also identify with these terms.

Links to other sources are available in the text. Today, 96% of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer adults in the United States say they have told someone that they are or might be LGBTQ. Respondents indicated whether they are a man, a woman or nonbinary — or describe their gender in some other way.

They were asked separately to indicate their sexual orientation, if they are transgender and if they consider themselves queer. October 8, By Jenn Hatfield.

For Women's History Month, we celebrate the accomplishments of queer women who moved the needle forward for generations to come through their activism, grit, and in many cases by just being. These types of analyses allow us to provide a composite snapshot of American identity.

Here are the questions used for this analysisthe topline and the survey methodology. The number of queer respondents who do not identify as lesbian or gay, bisexual, or trans is too small to analyze separately. Interviews were conducted either online or by telephone with a live interviewer.

We asked transgender adults about their experience coming out as trans. Gender was collected for analysis and not as a screening question. We also asked LGBTQ Americans how much social acceptance they see of people who are woman or gay, bisexual, nonbinary, or transgender in the U.

Note: Here are the questions used for this analysisthe topline and the survey methodology. Many of gay who have come out to some of the people in their lives say those people have been accepting. In this analysis, findings for lesbian, gay and bisexual adults do not include those who are transgender.

Lesbian or gay adults are typically the most likely to say that people in each of these groups have been accepting, while transgender adults are generally the least likely to say this. Lesbian or gay adults are the most likely to say they were aware of their identity at a young age.

Like the ATP, the OP and KP are probability-based online survey web panels recruited primarily through national, random sampling of residential addresses. Transgender adults are of any sexual orientation. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.

LGBTQ adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other factors. Why did we do this? Short Reads.