New York, April 08: About nine million people in the US identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), according to a latest report.
About 1.8 percent of adults identify themselves as bisexual, 1.7 percent as gay or lesbian and 0.03 percent as transgender, researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles’ School of Law said in the study published by The Los Angeles Times.
The study included data and methods from nine surveys conducted over the last seven years and averaged results from five of those surveys to estimate sexual orientation.
It used data from two surveys to estimate the transgender population, Xinhua reported.
The findings also show that about 8.2 percent of Americans said they participated in same-sex sexual activity and about 11 percent said they had same-sex sexual attraction, but neither of these groups necessarily identified themselves as LGBT.