Transgender Needs Assessment
by dentedbluemercedes on July 12, 2008.
http://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/transgender-needs-assessment/(This was originally written as a needs assessment to the transgender community in the Province of Alberta, Canada. We do have some specific differences to many regions (i.e. coverage of GRS), and usage elsewhere would require some editing. It is available to communities elsewhere to adapt to the specifics of other regions, to quote, and to reprint as necessary.)
It is impossible to say how many people there are in the transgender community, as statistics in Alberta have not been gathered. This is also complicated by the fact that a majority of transfolk prefer to live in "stealth," hidden and unknown among the population. It is also further complicated by the community's diversity, creating a question of whether to attempt to count transsexuals, who have the most specific needs in the community or to also count a larger range of gender-variant persons. Recent studies elsewhere approximate the transgender population as representing between 1:4000 and 1:2000 persons.
