Close to half of the trans-identifying people polled in a recently released U.S. survey reported having “serious psychological distress” in the previous month.
About 44% of those surveyed said they had experienced serious psychological distress in the last 30 days, according to the U.S. Transgender Survey from the National Center for Transgender Equality, which was conducted in 2022 from October 19 through December 5.
Nearly a third had also been homeless at some point, a preliminary analysis of the survey’s findings released Wednesday revealed.
The survey, which says it is the largest of trans-identifying people in the country to date, polled 92,329 people who identify as transgender or non-binary, including more than 7,000 teens who were 16 and 17, although most of the questions did not include the minors.
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For several reasons, the survey cannot be taken to be representative of the U.S. trans-identifying population as a whole. One issue is that it did not poll a random sample, and another is that it skews young — 43% of the adults polled were age 24 or younger.
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