Researchers estimate that 0.3% to 0.6% of people in the U.S. consider themselves transgender, estimating the population of trans adults in America at around 1.4 million. With such a small figure, employers are starting to see that trans-inclusive benefits aren’t all that expensive, and that the act of adding them to their policies outweighs the limited cost of covering them.
According to the Human Rights Coalition, the number of major U.S. employers adding transgender-inclusive health care coverage rose from 49 in 2009 to 278 in 2013, hitting a record 849 in the 2019, as recorded by the HRC’s Corporate Equality Index.
