Social acceptance correlates strongly with legal protections for LGBTI individuals, according to a new report from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. Researchers analyzed a variety of factors to categorize countries by their stages of LGBTI protection, a process detailed in the report. These factors included whether nondiscrimination laws were in place in fields, including healthcare and housing, and the existence of policies such as allowing same sex partners to adopt or the legal recognition of gender changes. “This report provides a first-of-its-kind statistical approach to understand the various pathways through which countries become more or less inclusive of LGBTI people,” the report said.