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Ziyan Zhang. Customer Relations — Contact Asia. Kisara Mizuno. President Joe Biden made equality a plank in his campaign, promising an ambitious agenda to advance LGBTQ rights after four years of setbacks and attacks by the previous administration. Biden has signed executive orders that prohibit workplace discrimination in the federal government based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and he lifted the transgender military ban.
And he has pledged to sign the federal Equality Act , recently introduced in the House — which provides sweeping protections in housing, education, credit and services — in his first days if Congress acts. But much work remains, she said. Survey methods can affect the willingness of respondents to report stigmatizing identities and behaviors.
Feelings of confidentiality and anonymity increase the likelihood that respondents will be more accurate in reporting sensitive information. Survey methods that include face-to-face interviews may underestimate the size of the LGBT community while those that include methods that allow respondents to complete questions on a computer or via the internet may increase the likelihood of LGBT respondents identifying themselves. Varied sample sizes of surveys can also increase variation. Population-based surveys with a larger sample can produce more precise estimates see SMART, for more information about survey methodology.
A final challenge in making population-based estimates of the LGBT community is the lack of questions asked over time on a single large survey. One way of assessing the reliability of estimates is to repeat questions over time using a consistent method and sampling strategy. Adding questions to more large-scale surveys that are repeated over time would substantially improve our ability to make better estimates of the size of the LGBT population. Findings shown in Figure 1 consider estimates of the percentage of adults who self-identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual across nine surveys conducted within the past seven years.
All are population-based surveys of adults, though some have age restrictions as noted. The lowest overall percentage comes from the Norwegian Living Conditions Survey at 1. In general, the non-US surveys, which vary from 1. In six of the surveys, lesbian- and gay-identified individuals outnumbered bisexuals.
Women are substantially more likely than men to identify as bisexual. Bisexuals comprise more than half of the lesbian and bisexual population among women in eight of the nine surveys considered see Figure 3.
Conversely, gay men comprise substantially more than half of gay and bisexual men in seven of the nine surveys. Four of the surveys analyzed also asked questions about either sexual behavior or attraction. Within these surveys, a larger fraction of adults report same-sex attractions and behaviors than self-identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual see Figure 4.
With the exception of the Norwegian survey, these differences are substantial. The two US surveys and the Australian survey all suggest that adults are two to three times more likely to say that they are attracted to individuals of the same-sex or have had same-sex sexual experiences than they are to self-identify as LGB.
Population-based data sources that estimate the percentage of adults who are transgender are very rare. The Massachusetts Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey represents one of the few population-based surveys that include a question designed to identify the transgender population.
Analyses of the and surveys suggest that 0. Different approaches to measuring LGBT status can produce varying estimates of its incidence in the U. Results from Gallup's new question do appear comparable to those from its prior question. The 1. The LGBT percentage rose an average of 0. Assuming that trend continued the past three years, the total increase would have been about one percentage point.
More than half of LGBT adults About a quarter An additional 3. Rebasing these percentages to represent their share of the U. One of the main reasons LGBT identification has been increasing over time is that younger generations are far more likely to consider themselves to be something other than heterosexual.
This includes about one in six adult members of Generation Z those aged 18 to 23 in Thus,
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