The following is from an email sent out by the National Center for Transgender Equity on Feb. 7, 2024:

We know you’ve been waiting, and now the day is finally here! The National Center for Transgender Equality is proud to announce the release of the first report from the 2022 U.S. Trans Survey – the Early Insights report!

A record number of transgender people took the 2022 survey – 92,329 to be exact. That’s over three times the number of respondents of the last survey in 2015. We appreciate every one of you who took or shared the survey, and now we’re finally able to share the first of many reports to be released.

The lessons from the report are clear: trans people in the survey said that living as their authentic selves made them more satisfied with their lives and that they have sources of support, yet still face many challenges in areas like accessing health care and accurate IDs.

Here are a just a few highlights from the Early Insights report:

Trans people in the survey reported greater life satisfaction after transitioning. Nearly all respondents (94%) who lived at least some of the time in a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth (“gender transition”) reported that they were either “a lot more satisfied” (79%) or “a little more satisfied” (15%) with their life.

Discriminatory policies cause real harm. Nearly half (47%) of respondents had thought about moving to another state because their state government considered or passed laws that target transgender people for unequal treatment (such as banning access to bathrooms, health care, or sports), and 5% of respondents had actually moved out of state because of such state action.

Without question, misinformation and a lack of understanding is underpinning the escalating legislative attacks on our community. But with the 2022 USTS, the largest survey ever conducted on the experiences of transgender and nonbinary people in the country, we are once again combatting that misinformation with hard data about trans lives.

Check out the Early Insights report at ustranssurvey.org. We made major changes to the site to make it easier to share the data with PDF and web versions of the report, including interactive charts. You can also view the full website en español.

Special thanks to our partners, the National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition, the TransLatin@ Coalition, and the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, for making this survey possible. And to you, for being part of the NCTE community – we couldn’t have done this without you.

With gratitude,
Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen
(he/him)
Executive Director