My city has less than 200 000 people. The whole region is less than 300 000, and it's isolated from any other populated area by a good 2.5 hours of road. Statistically, that makes 1/10000*300000 = 30 trans people in the whole area, I think, all ages together. With the population getting old, that makes about 3-6 of them being remotely young. 1-4 of them being girls, still hypothetically. Actually, I believe I'm the first or second "young" patient with transsexualism that my psychiatrist sees. And he's the only one for referring trans people in the whole area.
And that's if they stay. But they don't. They'll tend to move to Montréal and such, where help is more readily available and there's even a support group. And trans or not, most young people who want to study eventually go away for studies, and they don't always come back.
All that makes it so that transsexualism is an almost nonexistent phenomenon here, and whatever exists, people view it as almost exclusively for old people, like that white-haired local historian who publicly came out as transgendered.
This has the advantage of not really readily raising people's suspicions. It also has the disadvantage that there's a good chance I'll become a pretty popular conversation topic when I socially transition next year. A bit annoying that I have to do it with the same classmates, eh.
Lol, Tessa, about the French separatists. That sounds like a funny scene. xD
