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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 10.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Public Health. 2020 Mar 17;5(4):e196–e203. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30032-3

Table 4:

Reasons for not changing gender marker on identity documents

Number of respondents (n=14370)

Gender options do not fit my gender identity 5896 (40·3%)
Have not tried yet 6445 (43·4%)
Request was denied 231 (1·6%)
Not ready 3894 (26·2%)
Cannot afford it 4874 (34·2%)
Do not know how 3915 (26·7%)
Believe I am not allowed 3951 (26·7%)
Worried I might not be able to get benefits or services 3607 (25·0%)
Worried it would out me 3208 (21·1%)

Data are in n (%). Frequencies (n) are unweighted; proportions (%) are weighted to the age and race and ethnicity distribution of the US population from the American Community Survey. Respondents could select all that apply.