More than 2.8 million Americans identify as transgender, report finds

Roughly 2.8 million Americans who are 13 or older identify as transgender, according to a new study from the Williams Institute at UCLA Law.

Roughly 2.8 million Americans who are 13 or older identify as transgender, according to a new study.

The figure represents 1% of the U.S. population in that age group, according to the report published by the Williams Institute at UCLA’s School of Law, which has been estimating the transgender population size since 2011.

According to the study's findings, transgender individuals tend to be younger than the overall U.S. population.

More than 75% of transgender people ages 13 and older are under 35, compared with 34% of the entire U.S. population in the same age group.

Jody Herman, the report's lead author and a senior scholar of public policy at the Williams Institute, said this trend of younger generations being more likely to identify as transgender is expected to continue.