WASHINGTON (TND) — The percentage of U.S. adults who do not identify as heterosexual has more than doubled since 2012, according to data from a recent Gallup .
When Gallup began measuring survey respondents’ sexual identities in 2012, just 3.5% identified as part of the LGBT community. In 2023, this figure jumped to 7.6%.
Bisexual adults represented the largest subsection of this group, with 4.4% of U.S. adults and 57.3% of LGBT adults saying they are bisexual. Transgender individuals made up fewer than 1% of U.S. adults and about one in eight LGBT adults.
Young Americans led in terms of sexual diversity, with one in 10 millennials and one in five members of Gen Z identifying as part of the LGBT community. Bisexuality accounted for 15% of all Gen Z adults’ sexual identities.
Overall, each younger generation is about twice as likely as the generation that preceded it to identify as LGBTQ+,” pollsters wrote. “If current trends continue, it is likely that the proportion of LGBTQ+ identifiers will exceed 10% of U.S. adults at some point within the next three decades.”
Women were two times more likely to identify as LGBT than men, with 28.5% of Gen Z woman identifying as such compared to 10.6% of men of the same age group. Figures did not account for non-binary individuals, who make up less than 1% of the U.S. population.
Similar reports released in January a rise in diagnoses of gender dysphoria from 2018 to 2022. All but one U.S. state saw an increase in diagnoses from 2018-22. Diagnoses in minors increased to 20.4% from 17.5%, the report notes.
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