This book provides the first compilation of demographic research focused on transgender, nonbinary, and gender minority populations. It discusses the measurement and conceptualization challenges that shape demographic knowledge of these populations, including how we capture gender on surveys. It examines our current knowledge of demographic characteristics and health disparities and outcomes. Overall, this research demonstrates the increasing knowledge of gender variation at the population level. At the same time, it reveals the need for better survey questions, additional data, and inquiry into a broader subset of demographic questions for these populations as there is little understanding of fundamental demographic information, including migration or spatial distribution of transgender populations, fertility and household structure, labor market outcomes, or broader patterns of morbidity and mortality. The research set forth in this book lays the groundwork for a trans demography that would produce population-level knowledge of these populations and points researchers and policymakers toward needed areas of research, conceptualization, and data collection.

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Amanda K. Baumle is Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston, USA, and was Public Policy Fellow at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. She received her J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, practicing labor and employment law prior to earning her Ph.D. in Sociology from Texas A&M University. Her research and teaching are focused in the areas of demography and sociology of law, with an emphasis on issues involving gender and sexual orientation. Her current research focuses on an examination of charges of employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Sonny Nordmarken is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgia State University, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is an interdisciplinary scholar of transgender studies. His research and teaching span the areas of gender, sexuality, health, inequality, knowledge, and social change, and his current book project explores how trans people create new knowledge systems and social practices that facilitate their recognition.