A new survey from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law found that over half (52%) of surveyed transgender parents with minor children cited an increasingly hostile anti-LGBTQ legislative and social climate as a barrier to future parenting.
Researchers collected data in 2025 from a community sample of 108 transgender and nonbinary parents to examine the routes and barriers to becoming parents and the impact of an increasingly anti-transgender landscape on their parenting plans.
One-third (33%) of respondents said they planned to have fewer children because of Trump's re-election and presidency, and 55% indicated that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade and the resulting uncertainty over reproductive and legal rights had affected their future parenting plans.
Most respondents (93%) had legally recognized relationships with all of their children, yet 59% were concerned about the legal validity of their parenting rights—citing the lack of federal protections for LGBTQ parents and the Trump administration's stance on transgender rights as key factors.
Read the full report on the Williams Institute website.
