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# Study: More Americans than ever know someone who is trans or gender non-conforming
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/study-more-americans-than-ever-know-someone-who-is-trans-or-gender-non-conforming/
- Published: 2021-07-29T10:11:42.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-28T18:11:57.000Z
- Description: A new report from the Pew Research Center found 42% of Americans know somebody who is trans compared to 37% in 2017.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Gender non-conforming, LGBTQ, Non-binary, Trans, Transgender, US

A new report from the [Pew Research Center](https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/27/rising-shares-of-u-s-adults-know-someone-who-is-transgender-or-goes-by-gender-neutral-pronouns/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) found 42% of Americans know somebody who is trans compared to 37% in 2017 when the study was last conducted. An additional 26% of respondents said they know somebody who goes by gender-neutral pronouns such as ‘they/them’, compared to 18% in 2017.

Over 50% of those under 30 said that they knew someone who identified as trans or gender non-conforming. There were also political disparities among respondents, with 48% (up 11% since 2017) of Democrats saying they knew a trans or gender non-conforming person compared to 35% (up 25% since 2017) of Republicans.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/trans-flag-march-600-400.jpg)

Democrats were also more likely to agree that someone can identify with a different gender to that which they were assigned at birth. Overall, 54% of respondents said: *“Someone can be a man or a woman even if that is different from the sex they were assigned at birth.”*

In response to the findings, the Pew Research Center highlighted that while *“governments…have moved toward putting more legal protections in place for transgender people and formally recognising non-binary identities”*, there are still *“a record number of state-level bills have sought to limit definitions of gender to the sex people are assigned at birth.”*

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/trans-rightss-1.jpg)