'Growing up in a culture that has finally been able to tell them that they are aren’t alone, that they are beautiful & perfect exactly as they are –will never turn back from now,' Cathy Renna, communications director for the National LGBTQ Task Force says.
The fact that the numbers stabilized in 2022 after recent dramatic jumps is not unexpected, Gallup Senior Editor Jeff Jones told USA TODAY.
"We’ve seen a doubling, representing a total 3.7 point increase in 10 years," he said."At that rate, in most years we would expect to see rather incremental changes on the order of tenths of a percentage point. If you look at it over time, though, the incremental increases add up to something more substantial."
One of the key takeaways from the annual poll in recent years has been the growing presence of Generation Z in embracing new identities – an indicator Jones says is likely to continue. “I think the data clear that LGBTQ identification is highest among the younger generations,” Jones told USA TODAY. “I don’t put much stock in year-to-year increases or decreases that are within the margin of error ... but over a longer period of years you’ll see a more definite trend emerge.”For Generation Z – those born from 1997 to 2004 – 19.7% identified as LGBTQ in the poll, which was based on aggregated data of 10,000 people.By comparison, 3.
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