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Emma von Essen, J Lucas Tilley, and I have published the first study that uses
population-wide data to document the share of transgender people who are parents, and
their demographics.
The article also contains a review of relevant legal and policy changes affecting
transgender people's opportunities for parenthood since the 1970s.
Read the study here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41118-026-00285-4
Bullet point summary:
- About 11% are parents, but the share varies with age, peaking at 41% for trans men aged
45–49 and 43% for trans women aged 50–64, about half the rates of cisgender peers.
- Trans people have children at similar ages and with about the same earnings levels as
cis people.
- Trans men often start their transition before becoming parents. Trans women with
children usually had them before the transition.
- Since 1990, about 1200 children in Sweden have grown up with a parent who went through a
medical gender transition.
/Ylva
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Ylva Moberg
Researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University.
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