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Important notice

The Office for Statistics Regulation confirmed on 12/09/2024 that the gender identity estimates from Census 2021 are no longer accredited official statistics and are classified as official statistics in development.

For further information please see: Sexual orientation and gender identity quality information for Census 2021

These datasets provide Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents aged 16 years and over in England and Wales for gender identity by sex, gender identity by age and gender identity by sex and age.

Gender identity

Gender identity refers to a person's sense of their own gender, whether male, female or another category such as non-binary. This may or may not be the same as their sex registered at birth.

Non-binary

Someone who is non-binary does not identify with the binary categories of man and woman. In these results the category includes people who identified with the specific term "non-binary" or variants thereon. However, those who used other terms to describe an identity that was neither specifically man nor woman have been classed in "All other gender identities".

Sex

This is the sex recorded by the person completing the census. The options were "Female" and "Male".

Trans

An umbrella term used to refer to people whose gender identity is different from their sex registered at birth. This includes people who identify as a trans man, trans woman, non-binary or with another minority gender identity.

Trans man

A trans man is someone who was registered female at birth, but now identifies as a man.

Trans woman

A trans woman is someone who was registered male at birth, but now identifies as a woman.

Usual resident

A usual resident is anyone who on Census Day, 21 March 2021, was in the UK and had stayed or intended to stay in the UK for a period of 12 months or more, or had a permanent UK address and was outside the UK and intended to be outside the UK for less than 12 months.

Notes:

• To ensure that individuals cannot be identified in the data, population counts have been rounded to the nearest five and counts under 10 have been suppressed.

• Percentages have been calculated using rounded data.

The number of hate crimes committed against transgender people in England and Wales has increased in recent years, reaching 4,889 offences in 2022/23, and only declining slightly to 4,780 offences in 2023/24, and 4,120 in 2024/25.

This dataset provides Census 2022 estimates for Trans Status or History (3 Groups) by Age (5 groups) in Scotland.

Transgender

Scotland’s Census included a new question on trans status or history in 2022. This means there is not comparable data for previous censuses.

The question was “Do you consider yourself to be trans, or have a trans history?”. People were asked to tick “No” or “Yes”. People who ticked “Yes” were asked to describe their trans status (for example, non-binary, trans man, trans woman).

Transgender or trans is a term used to describe people whose gender is not the same as the sex they were assigned at birth.

This was a voluntary question for people aged 16 and over.

Age

A person's age on Census Day, 20 March 2022. Infants aged under 1 year are classified as 0 years of age.

The quality assurance report can be found here

The Metropolitan Police in London recorded 311 transgender hate crime incidents in the 2024/25 reporting year, which was the most of any police force in England and Wales. Hampshire Police reported 265 transgender hate crime incidents, with West Yorkshire Police reporting 241.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently updating the tenth version of their diagnostic tool, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD, WHO, 1992). Changes have been proposed for the diagnosis of Transsexualism (ICD-10) with regard to terminology, placement and content. The aim of this study was to gather the opinions of transgender individuals (and their relatives/partners) and clinicians in the Netherlands, Flanders (Belgium) and the United Kingdom regarding the proposed changes and the clinical applicability and utility of the ICD-11 criteria of ‘Gender Incongruence of Adolescence and Adulthood’ (GIAA). A total of 628 participants were included in the study: 284 from the Netherlands (45.2%), 8 from Flanders (Belgium) (1.3%), and 336 (53.5%) from the UK. Most participants were transgender people (or their partners/relatives) (n = 522), 89 participants were healthcare providers (HCPs) and 17 were both healthcare providers and (partners/relatives of) transgender people. Participants completed an online survey developed for this study. Most participants were in favor of the proposed diagnostic term of ‘Gender Incongruence’ and thought that this was an improvement on the ICD-10 diagnostic term of ‘Transsexualism’. Placement in a separate chapter dealing with Sexual- and Gender-related Health or as a Z-code was preferred by many and only a small number of participants stated that this diagnosis should be excluded from the ICD-11. In the UK, most transgender participants thought there should be a diagnosis related to being trans. However, if it were to be removed from the chapter on “psychiatric disorders”, many transgender respondents indicated that they would prefer it to be removed from the ICD in its entirety. There were no large differences between the responses of the transgender participants (or their partners and relatives) and HCPs. HCPs were generally positive about the GIAA diagnosis; most thought the diagnosis was clearly defined and easy to use in their practice or work. The duration of gender incongruence (several months) was seen by many as too short and required a clearer definition. If the new diagnostic term of GIAA is retained, it should not be stigmatizing to individuals. Moving this diagnosis away from the mental and behavioral chapter was generally supported. Access to healthcare was one area where retaining a diagnosis seemed to be of benefit.

Frequency Table of Gender Assigned at Birth, Gender Identity, and Level of Education (and Percentages for each Column).

Additional file 4.

Frequency Table (and Percentage of Column) Regarding the Question (only for Healthcare Providers): ‘Have you Already Met with Clients/Patients in your Work to Whom This Wider Scope of Diagnosis Might Apply (for Instance, a Person Who Does not Feel Themselves to be Either Man or Woman, and Wish to Live Their Live as gender-Neutral, Non-Binary Persons)?’

Frequency Table (and Percentage of Column) Regarding Statements About the Stigmatising Effect and/or Recognition as a Result of Having a (Gender Incongruence) Diagnosis.

Number of Times a Reason was Ticked (and Percentage of Participants that Selected the Reason) in the Dutch (NL) and United Kingdom (UK) Survey in Response to the Question:: “Have You Ever Been Discriminated Against for any of the Following Reasons:”.

No country in Europe had a majority of transgender people saying that they had undergone gender affirming or gender reassignment surgery in 2019, with the Netherlands having the greatest share of any country, at 48 percent. On average only a quarter of trans people in the EU had undergone surgery to alter their appearance in line with their gender identity.

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Responses to the Question: “Do You Think That, if the Scope of the Diagnosis is Widened, More People Who Do Not Experience Themselves to be Either Men or Women; or Who Experience Themselves to be Outside the Boxes of Manhood or Womanhood, etc., Will Seek Care or Treatment?”

Do You Think That Would be an Improvement?’.

Trans and gender diverse (TGD) people experience poorer health outcomes in comparison to their cisgender counterparts. These poor health outcomes for TGD young people are, in part, explained by exposure to minority stress (e.g., discrimination due to their minoritized identities).

Positively, research suggests that social support can be helpful for mediating this relationship between minority stress and poor health outcomes, highlighting that it may be beneficial to integrate social support into gender-affirming care. However, this social support needs to be meaningful (i.e., offer them a sense of belonging and access to psychological support that groups can provide) in order to mitigate against negative health outcomes.

Resultantly, this research conducted a service evaluation of one gender clinic in England. They are the first gender clinic to begin incorporating social support into their model of care. Open-ended survey data was collected from 30 service users, reflecting 10% of total service users.

This evaluation allowed to understand whether social support delivered through an NHS pathway allows meaningful social connections that enhance health to be developed, or whether these are experienced as too artificial in comparison to finding social support through their own volition.

Trans and gender diverse (TGD) people experience poorer health outcomes in comparison to their cisgender counterparts. These poor health outcomes for TGD young people are, in part, explained by exposure to minority stress (e.g., discrimination due to their minoritized identities). Positively, research suggests that social support can be helpful for mediating this relationship between minority stress and poor health outcomes, highlighting that it may be beneficial to integrate social support into gender-affirming care. However, this social support needs to be meaningful (i.e., offer them a sense of belonging and access to psychological support that groups can provide) in order to mitigate against negative health outcomes. Resultantly, this research conducted a service evaluation of one gender clinic in England. They are the first gender clinic to begin incorporating social support into their model of care. We collected open-ended survey data from 30 service users, reflecting 10% of total service users. This evaluation allowed us to understand whether social support delivered through an NHS pathway allows meaningful social connections that enhance health to be developed, or whether these are experienced as too artificial in comparison to finding social support through their own volition.

Frequency Table (and Percentage of Column) of Responses to the Question: How do You Feel About Limiting the Duration of Gender Incongruence to a Few Months?