Table 2.
Number and population proportion of adults who self-reported transgender identity or gender diversity.
| Survey location; time period, age (Reference) | Case definition | Source of numerator | Numerator |
Size of denominator | Percentage |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | RMAB | RFAB | Total | RMAB | RFAB | ||||
| Stockholm County, Sweden, 2014, ≥22 years (Åhs et al., 2018) | Desire to undergo treatment Feeling as person of different sex Desire to be treated as person of different sex |
Stockholm Public Health Cohort (SPHC) study questionnaire | 121 770 779 |
60 309 218 |
61 461 561 |
50,157; 21,586 males and 28,571 females | 0.5% 2.3% 2.8% |
0.6% 2.1% 2.0% |
0.4% 2.5% 3.5% |
| Massachusetts, US, 2007-2009, 18-64 years (Conron et al., 2012) | Self-identity as transgender | Massachusetts Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) 2007-2009 | 131 | NA | NA | 28,176 | 0.5% | NA | NA |
| Nationwide, US, 2014, ≥18 years (Crissman et al., 2017) | Self-identity as transgender | Annual cross-sectional telephone survey in all US states and 3 territories | TGD: 807 Trans: 691 |
Trans: 363 |
Trans: 212 |
151,456 (62,086 cisgender males, 88,679 cisgender females) | TGD 0.5% Trans: 0.5% |
0.6% |
0.2% |
| Nationwide, Netherlands, 2013, 15-70 years (Kuyper & Wijsen, 2014)* | Incongruent gender identity Ambivalent gender identity |
Sexual Health Survey | 77** 315** |
45** 186** |
32** 128** |
8,064 total (4052 males, 4012 females) | 1.0% 3.9% |
1.1% 4.6% |
0.8% 3.2% |
| Taiwan University, Taiwan 2003-2004, first-year college students (Lai et al., 2010) | Self-reported gender dysphoria | Adult Self-Report Inventory-4, DSM-IV referenced rating | 225 | 49 | 176 | 5010 total (2585 males, 2425 females) | 4.5% | 1.9% | 7.3% |
| Nationwide, US, 2010, 23-28 years (Reisner, Conron, et al., 2014) | Self-identity as transgender | Growing Up Today Study (GUTS) | 26 | 10 | 16 | 7,831 (2,605 males, and 5,226 females) | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.3% |
| Flanders, Belgium, 14-80 years, 2011-2012 (Van Caenegem et al., 2015)* | Incongruent gender identity Ambivalent gender identity |
Sexual Health Survey | 11** 37** |
5** 17** |
6** 20** |
1,799 (894 males, 905 females) | 0.6% 2.0% |
0.7% 2.2% |
0.6% 1.9% |
| San Francisco, US, 18-71 years, 2013 (Tate et al., 2013) | One question about gender (Study 1) Two questions about sex recorded at birth and gender identity (Studies 2 and 3) |
San Francisco State University, Department of Psychology Survey | Study 1: 2 Study 2: 6 (2 transgender, 4 non-binary) Study 3: 12 (6 transgender, 6 non-binary) |
Study 1: NA Study 2: NA Study 3: 3 transwomen |
Study 1: NA Study 2: 2 transmen Study 3: 3 transmen |
Study 1: 238 Study 2: 364 (259 cisgender females, 99 cisgender males) Study 3: 388 (192 cisgender females, 184 cisgender males) |
Study 1: 0.8% Study 2: 1.6% Study 3: 3.1% |
Study 1: NA Study 2: NA Study 3: 1.6%‡ |
Study 1: NA Study 2: 0.8‡ Study 3: 1.6‡ |
*
Includes a small proportion of adolescents, but the reported data do not allow evaluating results by age.
**
Calculated based on reported percentages and denominator sizes.
‡
Results exclude non-binary participants whose sex recorded at birth is not known.
NA = Not available.