A larger share of adults in Minnesota identify as transgender than in any other state, according to new research from the University of California, Los Angeles.

About 1.2% of Minnesota’s adult population identifies as transgender, compared to the national average of just over 0.8%, according to the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute, a think tank specializing in law and policy research related to sexual orientation and gender identity.

The research, released Wednesday, is based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the Youth Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, which is considered among the largest and most trustworthy public health datasets in the country.

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