The number of individuals who identify as either trans or non-binary is rising dramatically in the University of California system.
Data from January showed that between 2019 and 2023, more academic students identified as non-binary across UC system schools.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the UC changed its data collection procedures last year and combined the terms “non-binary,” “genderqueer,” and “gender non-conforming” into a solitary “non-binary” category.
The report noted that “even taking into account that transition, the quantity and percentage of students identifying as trans or non-binary increased significantly.”
Over the past four years, the proportion of students identifying as gender non-conforming, non-binary, or transgender has also tripled (from 0.06% in 2019 to 1.9% in 2023). Transgender men and women were identified as the smallest demographic in 2023, at 0.2% and 0.1%, respectively, while the majority of the students fell under the non-binary category.
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Em Huang, the school’s director of LGBTQ Advancement and Equity, claimed that the institution may have appealed to transgender and non-binary students more because of a systemwide policy allowing students to use their preferred name and gender identification on almost all official documents.
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In 2023, UC Santa Cruz had the highest percentage of transgender and non-binary undergraduate students (4% and 1.1%, respectively).
The information on UC schools was made available following the release of findings from the U.S. Transgender Survey Early Insights report in 2022, the country’s largest survey of transgender individuals.
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Students pass Sather Gate on the Berkeley campus of the University of California in Berkeley, California (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File).Ninety-four percent of respondents who had spent at least some of their lives in a gender other than their birth sex said they were “much happier” or “a little more content” with their life’s quality.
Only 2% of respondents said they were “a lot less satisfied” with their lives, while only 1% described it.
However, 39% of those polled claimed that in the previous year, they had experienced harassment on social media due to their gender identity. Over the same time span, 30% also reported verbal harassment.
When asked for assistance or talking to the police about gender-related issues, 62 percent of respondents admitted they felt “very uncomfortable” or “fairly uncomfortable.”
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Fox News Digital’s associate writer is Nikolas Lanum.
