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Topic	Why are there WAY more transgender guys than girls? No one talks about this.
EzeDoesIt 11/12/19 10:01:42 AM #25:	averagejoel posted... [citation needed] Its tough to find data on this, largely because (1) there are currently few measurable and/or standardized criteria (e.g. physical, social, political, etc.) regarding what might or should constitute a transgender person; and (2) problems with locating and accounting for this population are compounded by the relative invisibility through which many transgender individuals exist in their daily lives. Marginalized by political, religious, legal, medical, and other cultural institutions, transgender persons encounter levels of discrimination that range from simple misapprehension and/or exclusion by an uneducated public, to explicit acts of sexual and physical violence. Indeed, many in what is often referred to as the mainstream, including transgender individuals, are first exposed to the idea of transgender through media that often sensationalize and misrepresent the issues most salient for this population. However if were going solely on the hard data that we do have, the TCs premise seems to be relatively sound. Certainly though, there are counter-examples. For example, Japan has a 1.7-1 ratio of FTM to MTF trans people. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286423757_The_Demographics_of_the_Transgender_Population --- "Beef is when I quote you, guaranteed to break the TOU." -The Notorious Shablagoo <cite>EzeDoesIt posted [p:930024289] in Why are th... [t:78154369]...</cite> <quote>averagejoel posted... </cite> <quote>[citation needed]</quote> Its tough to find data on this, largely because (1) there are currently few measurable and/or standardized criteria (e.g. physical, social, political, etc.) regarding what might or should constitute a transgender person; and (2) problems with locating and accounting for this population are compounded by the relative invisibility through which many transgender individuals exist in their daily lives. Marginalized by political, religious, legal, medical, and other cultural institutions, transgender persons encounter levels of discrimination that range from simple misapprehension and/or exclusion by an uneducated public, to explicit acts of sexual and physical violence. Indeed, many in what is often referred to as the mainstream, including transgender individuals, are first exposed to the idea of transgender through media that often sensationalize and misrepresent the issues most salient for this population. However if were going solely on the hard data that we do have, the TCs premise seems to be relatively sound. Certainly though, there are counter-examples. For example, Japan has a 1.7-1 ratio of FTM to MTF trans people. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286423757_The_Demographics_of_the_Transgender_Population --- "Beef is when I quote you, guaranteed to break the TOU." -The Notorious Shablagoo</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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