Critical mass…?

[Natkat]

theres always more transgender than we notice.
in the time of my first school I thought I was the only one, but later I found out 2 people I knew had transitioned.

I belive the number is actually pretty huge.

[LordKAT]

I'm with Natkat. I thought I was the only one in a town of 28k. Nope, met 6 and heard of a couple more. Who knows how many are still closeted or just blend well enough that I don't know who they are.

[Ms Grace]

Them being uncomfortable, their fear of making their "normal" clientele uncomfortable or just don't want to get mixed up with crazy people.   

Well maybe so - but my endo shares his waiting room with a number of other specialists who are not endocrinologists. Every time I've visited the room has always had at least two M2F trans* clients (that I can notice, at any rate) and the rest are presumably cis*, here for another doctor and another reason. When I notice a trans person in a public space I try to pay more attention to how everyone around them is reacting to them - are they looking, staring, changing their body language, whispering to someone else and pointing - thus far I'd say nobody has seemed to notice, or they don't care, even in the waiting room where things are a lot more confined.

I'm with Natkat. I thought I was the only one in a town of 28k. Nope, met 6 and heard of a couple more. Who knows how many are still closeted or just blend well enough that I don't know who they are.

My work place has about 20 or so people. I found out that someone who worked there about six or seven years ago was M2F, she was presenting as male at the time and didn't transition until maybe three years after she left. But I would never have guessed at all she was trans*, even in retrospect I can't think of a single "clue".

[Rachel]

10/28000 = 0.036%

That is about right. In large urban LGBT friendly locations I bet the number is higher.

Where I work Trans* procedures are covered for employees and families. So we are naturally higher at 0.1% for our company. 14 out of 14,000 workers. Perhaps it is much lower due to family coverage and the denominator ballooning to perhaps 42,000. So perhaps we are at 0.033%. So between 0.033% to 0.10% of the population at work and their families are trans*.

[LordKAT]

Shortly before my legal name change, I read that it was like 1 in 34k people. That has been changing rapidly ever since.

[Nicolette]

There are also those that take themselves away from visibility by going back in the closet after transition. If someone came out in my office, I'm not sure I'd out myself to them. At this moment, I'm certain I wouldn't. To that person, they would still be the only one.