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LGBTQ+

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Social & Policy Issues

Of 20 behaviors, extramarital affairs and human cloning are seen as the most morally wrong. Birth control and divorce remain the most morally acceptable.

¿Û¿Û´«Ã½trends show that the world remains divided over whether local communities are good places for gay and lesbian people to live in.

Social & Policy Issues

Most Americans think the birth sex of transgender people should be prioritized over gender identity when it comes to sports and official documents.

Social & Policy Issues

The share of LGBTQ+ Americans who are married to their same-sex partner versus living together is down from the peak shortly after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriages. But it remains higher than before the 2015 ruling.

Social & Policy Issues

Americans widely support same-sex marriage and believe gay or lesbian relations are morally acceptable, but partisans' views diverge more than ever.

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LGBTQ+ identification among U.S. adults has increased to 9.3%.

Almost six in 10 Americans support allowing openly transgender men and women to serve in the U.S. military, and nearly eight in 10 back women serving in combat roles.

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While LGBTQ+ Americans view society as having become more accepting, one in four have received poor treatment or harassment in the past year.

Nearly half of people worldwide view their area as a good place for gay or lesbian people to live. Perceptions of acceptance have increased in 11 countries and decreased in 12.

Social & Policy Issues

Americans remain largely supportive of the legalization of same-sex marriages, and a majority believe gay or lesbian relations are morally acceptable.

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A slim majority of U.S. adults say changing one's gender is morally wrong, but only about a third favor laws banning gender-affirming care for minors.

Social & Policy Issues

LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S. continues to inch up, with 7.6% of all U.S. adults, and more than one in five Gen Z adults, identifying this way.

Social & Policy Issues

LGBT Americans are more interested than non-LGBT adults in fostering or adoption, and are facing discrimination as a major barrier, reveals a 2023 Kidsave-¿Û¿Û´«Ã½study.

¿Û¿Û´«Ã½and Walton Family Foundation find LGB Gen Z adults face heightened anxiety, sadness, stress and loneliness compared with their peers.

For the first time in ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½World Poll's trend dating back to 2006, a majority of people (52%) worldwide say their city or area is a "good place" for gay or lesbian people to live.

Views on the morality of a variety of practices are largely stable, though fewer say same-sex relations are morally OK and more say the death penalty is.

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Americans are less supportive than two years ago of transgender athletes being allowed to play on sports teams that match their current gender identity.

Seventy-one percent of Americans think same-sex marriage should be legal, matching the high ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½recorded in 2022.

¿Û¿Û´«Ã½estimates that 7.2% of the U.S. adult population is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or something other than heterosexual.