Exclusive: largest data analysis of its kind counters Trump’s aggressive efforts to deny trans minors’ existence
More than 2.8 million people now identify as transgender in the US, including an estimated 724,000 youth, according to a new data analysis that is the largest of its kind to date.
Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Williams Institute used federal surveys and data from state health agencies to identify the size and demographics of the trans population in each state.
The analysis, shared with the Guardian and released on Wednesday, documented thousands of trans youth living in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The findings counter Donald Trump’s aggressive efforts to deny the existence of trans minors, as his administration removes references to trans people across federal agencies and widely erodes protections and programs for LGBTQ+ communities.
0.81863% of Americans, and the republicans waste how much fucking time and money on demonizing them?
Recent polls showed that many Americans estimate the number of transgender people in the US as high as one in five. They have successfully built an imaginary war with an imaginary “enemy” and people’s perceptions of reality have been warped beyond belief by media and hype and algorithmic internet BS.
Woah! Way higher percentage than I thought
All the more reason to defend them! ❤️
That’s way more than I would’ve expected. Do other animals have “anomalies” like this with such a huge share of the species?
Sometimes much higher than that. Nature is really fucking weird.
https://www.iflscience.com/world-first-study-finds-sex-reversal-surprisingly-common-in-wild-australian-birds-80408
Interesting!
There’s plenty of evidence of homosexuality across broad swaths of the animal kingdom, but gender is a human social construct (until the apes and whales tell us otherwise) so I don’t know how this would even translate to any other animals.
Exactly, they can’t tell us otherwise 😅
How would we know if an animal is trans?
Exactly!