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1.4 Million Americans Identify as Transgender, Study Finds
From Time magazine
Read More…Katy Steinmetz @katysteinmetz
June 30, 2016Quote:The estimate, from UCLA’s Williams Institute, has doubledIt’s a tricky thing to quantify how many Americans are L, G, B or T. There has been stigma, and even criminal potential, attached to owning one of those labels. While some might associate being LGBT with behavior, others consider it a political reality. And questions about one’s sexual orientation or gender identity have long been considered private matters, not the kind of thing you tick a box for on a survey. But the most often quoted estimate of how many people are transgender in America just got updated, and that estimate has doubled.
Quote:According to a study from UCLA’s Williams Institute, 0.6% of people identify as transgender, amounting to 1.4 million Americans. Like a 2011 study from the same institution that estimated the population’s size to be 700,000, the number is based on conclusions the authors drew from state-level surveys. The updated number, however, is based on 19 state-level surveys conducted in 2014 and data from the U.S. Census Bureau, which is far more robust than the two state-level surveys used to make the previous estimate. Efforts to include questions about transgender status on large-scale federal surveys are still materializing.Quote:Noting that more complete data is likely to be collected in the future, the authors state that the size of the population is very likely between 800,000 and 2.3 million, though they believe it’s most likely that the actual number falls in between. -
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The real problem with gathering statistics on any transgender issues is that there are still many people out there who are fearful of making their transgenderness (sorry have I coined a new word?) known to others. I would not be surprised if the real number exceeds even the quoted maximum of 2.3 million. And then there are the ones who were not even aware that they are transgender, as was my case for many years.
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Interesting figures and makes you wonder how many in Australia.
1.4 million Americans = 0.4% actually of US population at beginning of 2016
so applying the same % to Australian population we get 96,000
Of course we can also say there are Lies , Damn lies and Statistics!!
Will we ever know ? probably not!
Does it Matter ? Not really.. provided those of us who identify in that way enjoy the same rights to freedom of expression and access to medical care , freedom from bigotry as anyone else in the Australian community. is entitled to.
