June 10th, 2015
I’ve mentioned before that the number pushed by trans activists is that 0.3 percent of the population is transgendered. This seems high–incredibly high–because it would mean that there’s one trans person for every five homosexuals in America, and I’m not sure that comports with anyone’s anecdotal experience.
But Steve Sailer points out a piece in the New York Times which tries to hang a real number on the trans population by using Census data for 2010, looking at the raw numbers of people who’d changed their name from one seeming-gender to another (89,667 people) and from one sex to another (21,833).
As Sailer points out, by those metrics, the trans number is somewhere between 0.007 percent and 0.029 percent of the population. What this suggests is that whatever the real number is, it’s so tiny that it will be difficult to pinpoint with any precision. It’s just too small.
Also, that it is insane that the American media has push the transgender narrative the way they have over the last couple of years. Here are some comparative numbers:
The Census estimates that there are 324,000 Wiccans in America, as of 2008). Back in 2001, the American Religious Identification Survey found that there were 22,000 Americans who practices Santeria; 33,000 who identified as “Druids”; 55,000 Scientologists; and 84,000 members of the Baha’i faith. This is the order of magnitude we’re talking about with transgenderism.
But when’s the last time you saw any of these groups having their cause pressed on the front page of the New York Times?
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Your argument against the media push for transgender rights is flawed. Comparing Druids or Wiccans to transgender people is not valid because religious freedom is protected, gender identity is not. Druids and Wiccans are not denied jobs, homes and even the use of the bathroom because of their religious/spiritual beliefs. Transgender people are denied these things, verbally and physically assaulted and even murdered, everyday.
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[…] Best estimate? Under 100,000. That’s a very, very tiny minority. […]
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[…] Jonathan Last looks at a few of the numbers available. Tranny activists claim that their kind make up 0.3% of the overall population – just under a million souls. I can tell you straight off that number is complete balderdash, there don’t come to even a fraction of that number. First of all, the way these activists calculate this number is based partly on one truth – that “gender dyphoric” individuals make up about 3% of the so-called homosexual population, but then they take a discredited piece of pro-sodomy propaganda and assume that these “homosexuals” make up 10% of the overall population. […]
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Um, why would the # of cross-gender name changes be considered a valid methodology for estimating the transsexual population? It would exclude all those transsexuals who have not legally changed their names. Prior to 2 weeks ago, that method would have missed Bruce Jenner. For this methodology to work, you need to know what % of transsexuals change their names legally and then adjust accordingly.
BTW, while I consider LGB and T two separate groups and I see no logical reason why they are lumped together, I note that Mr. Last erroneously implies that the gay and lesbian population is 1.5%. This is false. Although one data point from the CDC indicated 1.6%, that same survey had a large number of respondents who refused to answer or answered “don’t know.” Other surveys from governmental and private sources give a higher estimate for gays and lesbians. In Canada, the first federal government survey on this question looked a lot like the CDC survey, but over the years, the “don’t know/refuse to respond” group has decreased and the homosexual/bisexual response correspondingly increased.
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[…] About Those Transgender Numbers I’ve mentioned before that the number pushed by trans activists is that 0.3 percent of the population is transgendered. This seems high–incredibly high–because it would mean that there’s one trans person for every five homosexuals in America, and I’m not sure that comports with anyone’s anecdotal experience. […]
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[…] I was talking to a liberal friend at work about the gays and the new marriage law. They were going on about Bruce Jenner and how courageous he was for “putting it out there” and getting on the cover of a national magazine. This bothered me. I began to wonder And Just How Many Transgendered People Are There Actually in the US? […]
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[…] I was talking to a liberal friend at work about the gays and the new marriage law. They were going on about Bruce Jenner and how courageous he was for “putting it out there” and getting on the cover of a national magazine. This bothered me. I began to wonder And Just How Many Transgendered People Are There Actually in the US? […]
nickshaw June 15, 2015 at 10:55 pm
Or, in other words, the approximate number of total viewers of any MSDNC program.