How Many People are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender?

By G. Gates. 2011

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The search engine manipulation effect (SEME) and its possible impact on the outcomes of elections (2015, methodology): “Using poststratification and weights obtained from the 2010 US Census (46) and a 2011 study from Gallup (51), which were scaled to size for age, sex, race, and education, the VMP was 36.7% (95% CI, 33.2– 40.3%; McNemar’s test, P < 0.001).”
Innovative sampling and participant recruitment in sexuality research (2014, background): “4% of the population is estimated to be bisexual (Gates, 2011), this required advertising to a potentially very large number of McCormack 477”
Suicide Attempts Among Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Adults (2014, background): “Transgender people are estimated to constitute 0.3 percent of the U.S. population (Gates, 2011).”
Workplace contextual supports for LGBT employees: A review, meta‐analysis, and agenda for future research (2018, background): “It is estimated that approximately 8 million people, or 3.5% of the U.S population, identify as LGBT (Gates, 2011).”
Concealable Stigma and Occupational Segregation (2015, unknown): “The proportion of lesbian and gay workers, and our control variables, did not significantly differ between occupations with and without corresponding O*NET data. data sources on the demographics of sexual orientation (Gates, 2011; Gates and Newport, 2012; Stephens-Davidowitz, 2014).10”
“Regardless of Their Gender”: Descriptions of Sexual Identity among Bisexual, Pansexual, and Queer Identified Individuals (2017, background): “Despite findings that suggest bisexuality is the largest sexual identification group in the LGBT community (e.g., Gates, 2011), little is known about the range of identities often grouped together under the bisexual umbrella.”
Using Mechanical Turk to Study Clinical Populations (2013, unknown): “With regard to family and relationships, about 91% of respondents identified themselves as heterosexual, in line with national estimates (Gates, 2011), and many were married and had children (Table 1).”
Health Disparities Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Older Adults: Results From a Population-Based Study (2013, background): “5% of adults aged 18 years and older who self-identified as LGB in most other population-based studies.(70) This may reflect the historical context in which today’s LGB older adults came of age; these cohorts may be less likely than younger age groups to identify themselves as a sexual minority in a”
Hetero-cis–normativity and the gendering of transphobia (2016, background): “Although noted above that this is likely misrepresenting only a small number of individuals (Gates, 2011),8 several researchers have pointed to significant problems with relying on categories of “male” and “female” without better measures of gender identity, potentially causing error with…”
Transgender Population Size in the United States: a Meta-Regression of Population-Based Probability Samples. (2017, background): “Pooling of multiple survey samples, includingmultiple waves for recurring surveys, has been used before to estimate population size in gender and sexual minorities.(22,23) Random-effects analysis is appropriate when study heterogeneity can be expected.”