I am one in 200. Someone like me is at every concert, every school, in every workplace. Every town, every street, every neighborhood. Every store, every mall, every park. Every government, every nation, every continent. Me and my people have been here since time unrecorded and we will be here to the end of humanity. We will not be eradicated.

  • Smorty [she/her]English
    15·
    1 day ago

    really? like - transfems <3 specifically, or trans people <3 generally?

    i didn’t know the statistics, i guess we are ont as rare as i thought we would be

    • dandelionEnglish
      9·
      19 hours ago

      1 in 200 is trans people generally, not transfems. Trans people are about as rare as people with green eyes, or people with red hair (both are around 1 - 2% of the population, which is similar to the estimates of how many total trans people there are; interestingly, the number of people with “differences in sexual development” is similarly estimated to be around 1% of the population, and there is a lot of overlap between trans and DSD individuals).

      Over 1.6 million adults (ages 18 and older) and youth (ages 13 to 17) identify as transgender in the United States, or 0.6% of those ages 13 and older

      Of the 1.3 million adults who identify as transgender, 38.5% (515,200) are transgender women, 35.9% (480,000) are transgender men, and 25.6% (341,800) reported they are gender nonconforming.

      Research shows transgender individuals are younger on average than the U.S. population. We find that youth ages 13 to 17 are significantly more likely to identify as transgender (1.4%) than adults ages 65 or older (0.3%).

      https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Trans-Pop-Update-Jun-2022.pdf