TOPLINE:

A study of just over 10,000 US kids and teens aged 11-15 years found that 1.02% of adolescents identify as transgender; approximately 8.2% who were assigned female gender at birth and 1.3% assigned male gender at birth reported sometimes feeling like the other gender.

METHODOLOGY:

The study included 10,089 adolescents aged 11-15 years (mean age, 12.91 years) from 21 study sites across the US, each assessed through the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study Youth Gender Survey between 2019 and 2021.

Statistical analysis was performed over a period beginning in June 2024 and ending in March 2025.

Researchers evaluated six gender constructs: two continuous measures (felt gender, self-described placement on the gender spectrum), two ordinal measures (level of dissatisfactio

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