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and then when we give them awesome trans men to balance things, they aren't even grateful! 😤 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 days ago by TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/transmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

despite historical over-reporting of trans women compared to trans men, by the numbers there are roughly the same number of trans men as trans women. Trans women are just given more attention by the media and society, and can be more represented in online and IRL trans groups for various reasons.

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/

Of the 2.1 million adults who identify as transgender, 32.7% (698,500) are transgender women, 34.2% (730,500) are transgender men, and 33.1% (707,100) are transgender nonbinary adults.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7906237/

Studies have consistently reported a greater prevalence of MTF than FTM.12 A recent meta-review found a ratio of ∼2:1.1 We had previously noted an increase over the past two decades in the percentage of FTM initiating sex hormone therapy compared with MTF.4 We have now reached the point wherein we are seeing at least as many FTM initiating sex hormone therapy as MTF.

[–] Sybilvane@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I find it so interesting that the distribution is roughly equal for each category. Roughly a third identify as male, female, and NB.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I guess there's no reason to think the natural variation would be greater for one category or another. My only guess is that some people might identify as NB for political reasons that don't tie back to biology, but it's not clear, and if my memory is not wrong, among younger generations the number of people identifying as non-binary exceed the number of trans identifying people.

EDIT: among Gen Z, the percent of people identifying as trans is around 1.9 - 2% which is consistent with long-term, cross-cultural estimates of trans demographics of being between 0.5 - 2% of the population, but 7% of Gen Z identified as "non-binary" in 2024 according to the Household Pulse Survey:

https://www.generationtechblog.com/p/the-surprising-number-of-young-adults