For six years, researchers from Britain’s Lancaster University have investigated how the gender identity of people living in the UK changes. Based on the findings, the focus should not be solely on young people.

Over the course of six years, around 6.6 per cent of the UK population admitted that their gender identity had changed demography About a research result published in a journal Watchman.

Based on the outcome, the change was one of the largest in the case of women over 65 years of age, disproving the assumption that the change between heterosexual and non-heterosexual identity is primarily typical of young men. According to the study, the change in identity is mainly characteristic of women, non-white individuals, and people with low education.

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The research was conducted between 2011 and 2013 and between 2017 and 2019 by researchers at Lancaster University. About 23,000 people in the UK took part in the study, and based on the results, 6.6 percent of the group admitted that their gender identity had changed.

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The main results of the study were as follows:

  • Transgender identity change is most common for youth ages 16-24 (7.9 percent) and women over 65 (7.4) (between ages 25-64 this percentage is 5-6.2),
  • Men are 10 percent less likely to change their identity than women,
  • Alteration of identity among members of non-white minorities is three times higher (15.5) than among white individuals (5),
  • A change in gender identity is more likely among the less educated.

According to Nicole Denyer, a researcher at the University of Alberta in Canada and a co-author of the study, the finding that gender identity does not stabilize throughout our lives is particularly interesting. According to the specialist, this issue was previously related to adolescence as a crucial stage in the development of sexual identity, but it seems that other age groups should also be examined.

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The research does not address why someone changes their gender identity, but researchers hypothesize that middle-aged people are less likely to change due to the workplace environment or other social influences.

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