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1 Bianca D. M. Wilson & Kerith J. Conron, National Estimates of Food Insecurity: LGBT People and COVID-19 1 (2020)

handle is hein.lgbtqwi/nefil0001 and id is 1 raw text is: School of Law Williams Institute National Estimates of Food Insecurity LGBT People and AUTHORS: Bianca D.M. Wilson Kerith J. Conron COVID-1 9 BRIEF / APRIL 2020 OVERVIEW In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, inequities in access to food across the United States are especially apparent. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people are among the many subgroups of Americans known to experience especially high rates of food insecurity, meaning the experience of not having enough food to eat. Here we report updated figures to our 2016 report on LGBT food insecurity, providing a snapshot of current vulnerabilities at risk of exacerbation during the COVID-19 outbreak. Figure 1. Estimates of food insecurity among LGBT adults, 2017 PRIOR YEAR FOOD INSECURITY DID NOT EXPERIENCE FOOD INSECURITY Overall, nearly 27% of LGBT people, an estimated 3,029,000 adults, experienced food insecurity in the year prior to the survey' (see Figure 1). When we look at subgroups of LGBT people, we see that food insecurity is a concern across race and ethnicity, age, and sex,2 but also that some groups experience food insecurity at especially high levels. With regard to age, young adults have a particularly high rate of food insecurity (see Figure 2). 1To estimate the number of LGBT adults aged 18 or older experiencingfood insecurity, the number of LGBT adults in the United States (unrounded: 11,342,871) as reported in https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/adult-Igbt-pop-us/ was multiplied by 26.7% and rounded to the nearest 1,000; By Past year, we are referring to the last 12 months at the time respondents completed the 2017 Gallup Poll. 2 Please see Methods Note for measurement of sex in the 2017 Gallup Poll. We use this term here to reflect how the question was asked, wherein potential responses (male and female) use language associated with sex assigned at birth and cannot be assumed to reflect a respondent's current gender identity.