If you are questioning or exploring your gender you can speak confidentially to MindLine Trans+, LGBT Switchboard or search for support in your area via TransUnite. If you aren’t recognised as being the gender you know you are, it’s extremely damaging. There is no right or wrong way to be trans, but what is clear is that it’s not something that’s a fad or a 'lifestyle choice' and that all trans people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Other trans people do not know until they are teenagers or adults. Some trans people might not have the language or understanding of what it means to be trans until later in life. Many people know they’re trans from a young age. That would mean about 600,000 trans and non-binary people in Britain, out of a population of over 60 million.
The best estimate at the moment is that around 1% of the population might identify as trans, including people who identify as non-binary. There also isn’t any existing research that covers enough people to be statistically significant.
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