Legislative Landscape for Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals in Colorado

Transgender and nonbinary individuals are those whose gender identity differs from the sex the person was identified as having at birth, irrespective of whether that identity is male, female, both, or neither. Across the United States, approximately 2.8 million people over the age of 13 identify as transgender, about 1.0 percent of the total population. Of these individuals, 2.1 million are aged 18 or older, and 724,000 are considered youth (aged 13-17). Roughly 33 percent of individuals identify as a transgender woman, 34 percent as a transgender man, and 33 percent as nonbinary. In Colorado, these percentages hold constant with about 56,000 transgender- and nonbinary-identifying individuals.