Transgender
One effort to quantify the population gave a "rough estimate" that 0.3 percent of adults in the US are transgender, overlapping to an unknown degree with the estimated 3.5 percent of US adults (1-in-30) who identify as LGBT. More recent studies released in 2016 estimate the proportion of Americans who identify as transgender at 0.5 to 0.6%. This would put the total number of transgender Americans at approximately 1.4 million adults ().
Transgender rights in the United States
As of 2018, 22 states feature legislation that prohibit discrimination based on gender identity in either employment, housing, and/or public accommodations. None of these state laws has ever been defeated at the ballot box; the first statewide referendum on repealing existing protections for transgender people is scheduled for November 2018 in Massachusetts.