There are about 1.6 million transgender people in the United States who are 13 years of age and older, and about 43 percent of them are between 13 and 24 years old, a new report said.

The document, released this week by the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is based on data from two studies conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2017-2020, as well as based on an improved statistical modeling.

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Researchers have found that the percentage and number of adults in the United States who self-identify as transsexual remain stable over time.

However, the number of transgender people aged 13 to 25 has doubled since the previous report published in 2017, although the study used a different methodology.

The sharp rise in the number of transgender people may be due to better access to data on young people who self-identify as transgender.

The data show that younger people are "significantly more likely" to self-identify as transsexual than older people, the report said: 1.4 percent in the 13-17 age group and 0.3 percent in the 65-year-old category. years up.

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Overall, the number of adults in the United States who identify themselves as transgender (1.3 million) represents 0.5 percent of the total adult population in the United States.

Among American youth between the ages of 13 and 17, 17,300,000 identify themselves as transsexual, or 1.4 percent of the total US population in this age group, adds BTA.

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