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Title: Rogue Ethicists
Post by: Butterfly on May 06, 2009, 06:02:17 AM
Post by: Butterfly on May 06, 2009, 06:02:17 AM
Rogue Ethicists
A.E. Brain
By Zoe Brain
May 5, 2009
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/05/rogue-ethicists.html (http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/05/rogue-ethicists.html)
These figures came from Walinder in Sweden, and are over 40 years old now. Better numbers are in the World Professional Association for Transgender Health "Standards of Care" from over 5 years ago:
"The earliest estimates of prevalence for transsexualism in adults were 1 in 37,000 males and 1 in 107,000 females. The most recent prevalence information from the Netherlands for the transsexual end of the gender identity disorder spectrum is 1 in 11,900 males and 1 in 30,400 females."
But never mind. I can't expect a philosopher to know such details, and in philosophy (unlike biology) textbooks don't become obsolete every 5 years.
A.E. Brain
By Zoe Brain
May 5, 2009
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/05/rogue-ethicists.html (http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/05/rogue-ethicists.html)
These figures came from Walinder in Sweden, and are over 40 years old now. Better numbers are in the World Professional Association for Transgender Health "Standards of Care" from over 5 years ago:
"The earliest estimates of prevalence for transsexualism in adults were 1 in 37,000 males and 1 in 107,000 females. The most recent prevalence information from the Netherlands for the transsexual end of the gender identity disorder spectrum is 1 in 11,900 males and 1 in 30,400 females."
But never mind. I can't expect a philosopher to know such details, and in philosophy (unlike biology) textbooks don't become obsolete every 5 years.