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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Adolesc Health. 2021 Jul 13;69(6):991–998. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.06.001

Table 3. K-12 Harassment.

N=9711

How old were you when you started to live full-time in a gender that
is different from the one assigned to you at birth?
In
childhood,
age 3 – 9
n=165
In adolescence,
age 10 – 17
n=1196
In adulthood,
age 18 and
over
n=8350
n (%) n (%) n (%) x 2 p
K-12 Harassment
  I was verbally harassed because people thought I was trans 84 (50.9) 735 (61.5) 1991 (23.8) 759.1 <.001
  I was physically attacked because people thought I was trans 44 (26.7) 312 (26.1) 1098 (13.1) 155.6 <.001
  I experienced unwanted sexual contact because people thought I was trans 29 (17.6) 170 (14.2) 510 (6.1) 127.8 <.001
  Any type (verbal, physical or sexual) 87 (52.7) 741 (62.0) 2043 (24.5) 749.3 <.001