2022 U.S. Trans Survey
Early Findings from the 2022 USTS
92,329
The sample included 92,329 respondents, including 84,170 adults, from all fifty states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and U.S. military bases overseas. Building upon the success of the prior study, the 2022 USTS is now the largest survey ever conducted to examine the experiences of binary and nonbinary transgender people in the United States.
94%
Nearly all respondents (94%) who lived at least some of the time in a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth (“gender transition”) reported that they were either “a lot more satisfied” (79%) or “a little more satisfied” (15%) with their life.
75%
Three-quarters (75%) of voting eligible respondents reported that they had voted in the 2020 presidential election, compared to 67% in the U.S. population.
47%
Nearly half (47%) of respondents had thought about moving to another state because their state government considered or passed laws that target transgender people for unequal treatment (such as banning access to bathrooms, health care, or sports), and 5% had actually moved out of state because of such state action.
About the 2022 survey
Learn more about the largest-ever survey of transgender people in the United States.
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In their own words
Obtaining hormone therapy through the informed consent model and having access to surgery has definitely changed my life for the better. It certainly didn’t fix all of my problems instantly, but it fixed a lot of problems that my dysphoria caused. Now that I’ve been on HRT and had surgery, I can live my day to day life without pain, dissociation, and misery.
Taylor
When I was younger, I was always afraid that I would never be accepted as transgender while currently having a job. I thought that people like me couldn't have jobs working with the public or could actually be "out" in the workforce, from the fear of being misunderstood and discriminated against.
Milo
My whole life has been affected by the fact that my family was very accepting of me. I'm not exactly sure why, but both of my parents always supported my gender and sexual expression even before it was popular to do so. They would intervene at school and in the neighborhood, so I never had the problems that most people had growing up. As I get older (I'm over 50), I realize how important this was.
Amanda
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