Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of transgender women and transfeminine people in China, December 2019–June 2020 (N = 277)
Characteristics | N (%) |
|---|---|
Age (n = 253)* | 29.04 (7.74) |
Housing | Â |
 Live alone owned or rent | 163 (58.8) |
 Live with someone else | 62 (22.4) |
 Live at workplace or school | 38 (13.7) |
 Other | 14 (5.1) |
Marital status (n = 276)* |  |
 Never married | 243 (89.0) |
 Engaged or married | 10 (3.7) |
 Separated or divorced | 23 (8.4) |
 Widowed | 0 (0.0) |
Education | Â |
 High school or below | 126 (45.5) |
 Some college | 68 (24.5) |
 College/Bachelors or above | 83 (30.0) |
Annual income | Â |
 No greater than USD$5538 | 75 (27.1) |
 Greater than $5538 and no greater than $11,077 | 129 (46.6) |
 Greater than USD$11,077 | 73 (26.3) |
Sexual attraction | Â |
 To women | 15 (5.4) |
 To men and women | 23 (8.3) |
 To men | 224 (80.9) |
 To no one | 3 (1.1) |
 Unsure or other | 12 (4.3) |
Gender identity | Â |
 Transgender woman | 104 (37.5) |
 CD | 37 (13.4) |
 Yao or TS | 39 (14.1) |
 Women | 59 (21.3) |
 Gender non-conforming, nonbinary | 37 (13.4) |
 Other | 1 (0.3) |
Currently live as self-identified gender for most of the time (n = 276)* | |
 Yes | 166 (60.1) |
 No | 110 (39.9) |
Disclosed identity (n = 275)* |  |
 Yes | 207 (75.3) |
 No | 68 (24.7) |
Disclosed identity to health workers | Â |
 Yes | 155 (74.9) |
 No | 52 (25.1) |
Ethnicity | Â |
 Han | 217 (80.3) |
 Other | 53 (19.6) |
Lifetime sex work involvement | Â |
 Yes | 116 (42.2) |
 No | 159 (57.8) |