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.

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    Thats so many more people than i expected :)

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    1/200 (0.5%) don’t sound like much until you multiply it with the world population ~8.2 billion that’s around 41.000.000, that’s more than Canada’s population!

    Was the 1/200 transfem only or all trans?

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      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

      Most likely the actual number of trans people (people who experience gender dysphoria or otherwise have a gender identity not matching their assigned sex at birth) is closer to 1 to 2 in 100 people. In the U.S. only 1 in 200 actually identify as trans.

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        The numbers being nearly equal across MtF and FtM is surprising to me, but I’m sure that’s mostly due to visibility bias; Trans men tend to pass as cis much easier after transitioning, (especially if they have had a double-mastectomy, or started hormone blockers before they developed breasts) so I likely wouldn’t notice them. Like I personally know about a dozen (open) trans women, but only know of one (open) trans man. So seeing the nearly identical percentages was interesting.

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      that’s more than Canada’s population!

      When do we, y’know… move in? Since Denmark is already taken.

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    Very well said. I despair at the growing sense of violence looming on the horizon.

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    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

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      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

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    I thought it was 3 in 200? Anyways gotta make those numbers bigger 📈