How many people are lesbian gay bisexual and transgender summary

Data on gender, trans and gender diverse, sexual orientation, and people born with variations of sex characteristics. The estimates and characteristics in this analysis are subject to limitations and error due to, for example, sample size and non-sampling error. These data are experimental and not population benchmarks and should be used with caution.

Readers should note measures of sampling error associated with the results presented in this article. This analysis only includes two figures the estimated number and the estimated proportion of the population for people who report they know they were born with variations of sex characteristics.

This is because the sample size of the dataset limits the reliability of any further data disaggregation. Additionally, the information on people born with variations of sex characteristics is complex to collect because only a small proportion of the population have variations of sex characteristics and some respondents may be unaware of the concepts behind the question or unfamiliar with the terminology [1].

This may lead to some respondents mistakenly answering yes when they do not have variations of sex characteristics. Conversely, some respondents who were born with variations may have answered no to the question if they were not aware of variations or did not believe their characteristics were included in the concepts and terminology of the question.

It is not possible to determine whether these scenarios occurred and if so, how often. Please see the Methodology for more information. Methods to combine surveys were refined for the specific nature and context of this analysis and may not be applicable for other collections or analyses.

In this article we use the following terms and acronyms:. Born with variations of sex characteristics refers to people with innate genetic, hormonal or physical sex characteristics that do not conform to medical norms for female or male bodies. Trans and gender diverse also referred to in this analysis as trans experience and trans describes people whose sex recorded at birth and their gender are not the same.

This includes:. Throughout this analysis when we use the term 'report' it means that a person has chosen to disclose something about themselves to the ABS through a personal interview. A person may experience a gender other than male or female, know they were born with variations of sex characteristics, or be lesbian, gay, bisexual or use a term other than straight to describe their sexual orientation, but have chosen not to disclose.

For example, someone may live as a non-binary person, but have chosen not to report this to the ABS. There may be an overall tendency towards respondents not disclosing what they consider to be sensitive information to the ABS. Where appropriate, the ABS have adjusted for differences in the age distributions of some populations compared to the rest of the population using age standardisation.

LGBT Populations

Please see Methodology for further information. Around one in twenty 4. In this article we use the term 'sexual orientation' as an umbrella concept that encapsulates sexual identity how a person thinks of their sexuality and the terms they identify withattraction romantic or sexual interest in another person and behaviour sexual behaviour.

People can describe their sexual orientation as heterosexual straightgay, lesbian, bisexual or a different term such as asexual, pansexual or queer. An estimatedAustralians aged 16 years and over, or 3. An estimated Approximately 1. One in ten The proportion of people who report these sexual orientations varies with age:.

These differences remain after adjusting for age. Around two in ten