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Trans Resistance Network // A US-based mutual aid organization to help trans people facing state violence and legal discrimination.
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We are one in 200. (self.mtf)

submitted 2 weeks ago by tanisnikana to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, I do think people pay more attention to transfems for various reasons (mostly misogyny and anti-gay stigma), and like you I know more transfems than transmascs.

However, my primary care physician told me that I was their first trans woman patient, and he told me he has several trans men patients.

The local trans groups are mostly transfems, some transmascs show up but they are far fewer in number. I am not sure why, but trans men just aren't as active, at least in my local trans community. I have sometimes wondered like you whether this is because they find it easier to pass and fit in with cis people, so they need the support groups and trans community less, and maybe it becomes a risk to associate with the trans community because it could out them?

All that said, I figure since the causes of gender dysphoria are biological I expect the numbers to be the same, so I wasn't surprised to see they are the same.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

that’s more than Canada’s population!

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