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Gender Minority Status and Family Inequality in the United States.

Authors :
CARPENTER, CHRISTOPHER S.
LEE, MAXINE J.
NETTUNO, LAURA
Source :
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences; Jan2025, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p65-85, 21p
Publication Year :
2025

Abstract

We provide new evidence on marital status and family outcomes of transgender and other gender minority populations in the United States using more than fifteen thousand non-cisgender adults in the Census Bureau’s 2021–2023 Household Pulse, the only nationally representative survey in the United States with in- formation on sex at birth and current gender. These data indicate that non-cisgender individuals—those whose sex at birth does not align with their current gender—are significantly less likely to be married and more likely to have a spouse who has passed away than their cisgender counterparts. Non-cisgender indi- viduals are also significantly less likely than otherwise similar cisgender women to have children in the household. Non-cisgender individuals live in households with significantly more adults than otherwise similar cisgender adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
23778253
Volume :
11
Issue :
2
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
182223468
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.2.04