Nearly 3 million Americans, or 0.8% of the country’s population, are transgender, according to a data analysis from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. The LGBTQ think tank used data from the federal government to arrive at its findings.

The data is sorted into adult and youth estimates. That 3 million figure includes 263,700 adult Californians, or 0.9% of the state’s adult population, among the 546,300 trans adults across the Western states, as well as 84,600 Californians ages 13-17, or 3.2% of the state’s youth population, among the 175,000 trans youth across the Western states. 

The findings were announced during a webinar August 21. While the federal government allowed people on the 2020 census to designate if their relationship is same-sex, it did not ask about sexual orie

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