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Recent reporting and peer‑reviewed studies show high rates of suicidal thoughts and attempts among transgender and nonbinary (TNB) people, especially youth: surveys report past‑year attempt rates arou...
NCAA leadership and multiple outlets say transgender college athletes are extremely rare — NCAA president Charlie Baker testified there are “fewer than 10” among roughly 530,000–510,000 student‑athlet...
Available studies consistently show transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people face much higher rates of sexual violence than cisgender people, with lifetime sexual-assault prevalences around 40–50% ...
Research does not support a simple claim that "homosexuals" commit sex crimes at higher rates; large recent studies show LGBT people are much more often victims of violent and sexual crimes than non‑L...
Available studies and large surveys show transgender people report far higher rates of suicidal thoughts and attempts than the general population: recent community and national samples report past‑yea...
The most recent, widely cited analyses place the District of Columbia at the top of U.S. jurisdictions for the share of adults identifying as LGBT, at , but D.C. is not a state; when the question is r...
U.S. studies and national surveys from 2020–2025 show large, consistent disparities: lifetime suicide-attempt prevalence among transgender adults in recent national samples is reported around 40–44%, ...
Available reporting shows large, varied estimates of suicidal thoughts and attempts among transgender and nonbinary people, with some lifetime self‑report surveys finding very high percentages (for ex...
Across multiple studies and national statistics, women—whether in opposite-sex marriages or same-sex (lesbian) marriages—are more likely to initiate divorce than men, and lesbian marriages have repeat...
Reporting and advocacy pieces have repeatedly claimed that a large share — sometimes “about half” or “almost two-thirds” — of transgender prisoners are convicted sex offenders, but official data are s...
Between 2022 and 2024 multiple states enacted laws that restrict classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity — GLSEN lists eight states with so-called “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” K...
Available sources show that estimates of gender dysphoria and transgender identity in the U.S. vary widely by data source, age group, and method: population surveys and clinic-based records give very ...
Recognizing trans women as women generally expands their practical access to women-only services—reducing barriers to housing, healthcare, and basic civic life—but that expansion collides with legal r...
Major, peer‑reviewed and government‑style sources in the available reporting show no credible evidence that transgender identity increases perpetrators’ violent crime rates; instead multiple national ...
Research consistently finds that lesbian and bisexual women report equal or higher lifetime rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) than heterosexual women, with multiple sources citing figures aroun...
Official, disaggregated counts of “” (commonly referred to in contemporary reporting as transgender men) in do not exist; public reporting provides only broad state estimates of transgender and nonbin...
Evidence shows meaningful variation in sexual-offense involvement across LGBTQ+ subgroups, but the pattern is complex: research consistently documents much higher rates of for overall, while studies o...
As of 2025, a minority of states have statutes that explicitly enumerate “” in state employment nondiscrimination laws: counts 22 states plus the and one U.S. territory whose statutes expressly prohib...
Measured prevalence of domestic violence in LGBTQ+ communities is shaped by both higher underlying risks documented in multiple surveys and substantial barriers that suppress reporting and access to s...
Reporting shows only a small number of colleges have publicly documented or been publicly linked to transgender student‑athletes, and much of the available information names individual cases or school...