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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Eat Disord. 2020 Jan 14;53(4):513–524. doi: 10.1002/eat.23226

Table 1.

Sample demographics by gender identity

Demographic Characteristic Gender Identity
Cisgender Men N = 4526 Cisgender Women N = 8820 Transgender or Genderqueer N = 238
n (%) n (%) n (%)
Sexual Orientation
 Heterosexual 4071 (90.0) 7648 (86.7) 29 (12.2)
 Gay or lesbian 183 (4.0) 152 (1.7) 30 (12.6)
 Bisexual 157 (3.5) 637 (7.3) 53 (22.3)
 I am not sure yet 80 (1.8) 221 (2.5) 13 (5.5)
 Prefer other identifier 35 (0.1) 162 (1.8) 47.5 (47.1)
Racea
 American Indian/Alaska Native 124 (2.7) 241 (2.7) 11 (4.5)
 Asian 564 (12.2) 905 (10.0) 22 (9.0)
 Black or African American 325 (7.0) 500 (5.5) 13 (5.3)
 Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 18 (0.4) 34 (0.4) 1 (0.4)
 White 3593 (77.4) 7453 (82.6) 201 (82.0)
 Prefer other identifier 116 (2.5) 171 (1.9) 15 (6.1)
Ethnicitya
 Hispanic or Latinx 255 (6.6) 415 (5.6) 16 (7.4)
 Hmong 104 (2.7) 235 (3.2) 3 (1.4)
 Somali 54 (1.4) 71 (1.0) 1 (0.5)
 None of the above 3997 (88.6) 7942 (90.3) 209 (88.6)
 Prefer not to answer 147 (3.8) 171 (2.3) 8 (3.7)
Self-reported Anorexia Nervosa
 Past year 12 (0.3) 55 (0.6) 1 (0.4)
 Lifetime 26 (0.6) 322 (3.7) 11 (4.7)
 Total 38 (0.8) 377 (4.3) 12 (5.1)
Self-reported Bulimia Nervosa
 Past year 12 (0.3) 38 (0.4) 1 (0.4)
 Lifetime 17 (0.4) 188 (2.1) 3 (1.3)
 Total 29 (0.6) 226 (2.6) 4 (1.7)
EAI 34 (0.7) 170 (1.9) 8 (3.4)
Age [M(SD)] (range=18–76) 24.0 (7.4) 23.6 (7.3) 22.5 (7.3)
BMI [M(SD)] (range=14–120) 25.6 (5.6) 25.7 (6.4) 26.2 (7.0)

Note.

a

=Participants may select more than one option, thus summed values may exceed total sample size or 100%