Sex Change Operations: The Science, Sociology and Psychology

[Natasha]

Sex Change Operations: The Science, Sociology and Psychology

http://www.livescience.com/culture/090618-sos-transgender.html
6/18/09

It's difficult to gauge the size of the transgender population in the United States. The U.S. Census doesn't record this data, and neither does any other organization — at least, officially. The National Center for Transgender Equality in Washington, D.C., estimates the number as between .0025 percent and 1 percent of the general population.

[Janet_Girl]

So if I take an IPod with some really good 'Hair" bands, it will reduce the amount of nite nite drugs?  Hum something to think about.

Sorry sidetracked.

Janet

[tekla]

So then anywhere from 3 million to 7,500.  Wow, that's a helpful stat.  Because if it's at the low end, we don't matter at all.  At the high end, we ought to take over a small city.

[Alyssa M.]

Wow, way to confuse "transgender" and "transsexual." I understand that the media use the words almost interchangeably. Sometimes I do too when talking about my experience, in order to avoid discussion about bits and surgury and hormones and other things that aren't anyone's business but my own. But when you use a word, you ought to have at a minimum some idea of what you mean by it, and the writer here clearly doesn't. Hence "transgrender" as an umbrella term describes roughly 1% of the popluation, while "transgender" as a synonym for "transsexual, post-transition" describes .0025% of the population according to some studies from the '70's or something (though the number today is probably on the order of one per thousand or so).

[Sandy]

Also the comments section was hijacked into a deteriorating discussion about anal sex... WTF!!!

The article tried to be objective and sympathetic, but screwed up the terminology a bit.

-Sandy