I'm a Michigan girl, but I've lived in the "Mississippi of the North" aka Indiana for most of my life.

Quote"I live in Albuquerque, but I only moved here 10 years ago. I wasn't born here.
I LOVE New Mexico, and I think ABQ is pretty good place to transition."

Can Heisenberg help us out in the HRT Dept.?   

Quote from: Mariah2014 on May 27, 2015, 06:09:15 PM
Spokane, Washington

I've had cousins and such in the Spokane, Aberdeen, Seattle and Olympia areas, other than a couple who are dead and one who moved to Calif. I don't really know much about most of them though

Small world. I have many cousins scattered across the state too. I believe at least one or two also left the state to go down to California. I didn't know the ones that left the state at all.
Mariah

Quote from: V M on May 27, 2015, 07:32:24 PM
I've had cousins and such in the Spokane, Aberdeen, Seattle and Olympia areas, other than a couple who are dead and one who moved to Calif. I don't really know much about most of them though

In spite of being born in Okla City, I consider Seattle to be where I grew up.  I still love the city, but it's become a victim of it's own success.  Too many people!  I'm in Portland, OR, these days, very similar to Seattle but without the crowds.  Plus, the judge won't let me leave the state for now. 

Quote from: Mariah2014 on May 27, 2015, 07:36:00 PMSmall world. I have many cousins scattered across the state too. I believe at least one or two also left the state to go down to California.

Same here, though the two in California have grandkids coming on so I think we're up to eight or nine now.  Also a couple cousins in BC and family connections mean usually somebody's in Alaska at any given time.

I was born in Arkansas, but it's been a long time since I lived there.

Hi folks!

I realize that we have a statistically small number of responses, and that they are skewed by factors like internet access and social-economic status (ability to afford internet access), but I thought I'd add an unscientific comparison of state responses vs. state population.  Someone with a statistics background could do a much better job and include a calculation of how statistically significant a state's variation is. 

In the list, I am calculating the percent higher or (lower) that the response count is in comparison to the proportion of the population.  So, Wisconsin has 152% more responses than the population would have indicated. My home state of Michigan looks far less interesting at 69% higher, than just seeing 7 is second only to California's 14. Texas jumps out to me as being probably the most interesting in its lack of responses!

Kim 

P.S. I apologize for the columns not being straight.  I think they would be in Courier font. This is the most readable display option I found.

State                       Responses   Population                 Proportion       Responses/Proportion
Alaska                              2                710,231               .30               573%
Montana                             2                989,415               .41               383%
New Mexico                          4              2,059,179               .86               364%
Rhode Island                        2              1,052,567               .44               354%
Vermont                             1                625,741               .26               282%
North Dakota                        1                672,591               .28               255%
South Dakota                        1                814,180               .34               193%
Delaware                            1                897,934               .38               166%
West Virginia                       2              1,852,994               .78               158%
Wisconsin                           6              5,686,986              2.38               152%
Oregon                              4              3,831,074              1.60               149%
Kentucky                            4              4,339,367              1.82               120%
Virginia                            6              8,001,024              3.35                79%
Utah                                2              2,763,885              1.16                73%
Michigan                            7              9,883,640              4.14                69%
Missouri                            4              5,988,927              2.51                60%
Iowa                                2              3,046,355              1.28                57%
Alabama                             3              4,779,736              2.00                50%
Massachusetts                       4              6,547,629              2.74                46%
Minnesota                           3              5,303,925              2.22                35%
Nebraska                            1              1,826,341               .76                31%
Oklahoma                            2              3,751,351              1.57                27%
North Carolina                      5              9,535,483              3.99                25%
Maryland                            3              5,773,552              2.42                24%
Indiana                             3              6,483,802              2.71                11%
New Jersey                          4              8,791,894              3.68                 9%
Washington                          3              6,724,540              2.82                 7%
California                         14             37,253,956             15.60               (10)%
Nevada                              1              2,700,551              1.13               (12)%
Kansas                              1              2,853,118              1.19               (16)%
Ohio                                4             11,536,504              4.83               (17)%
Arkansas                            1              2,915,918              1.22               (18)%
Arizona                             2              6,392,017              2.68               (25)%
New York                            6             19,378,102              8.11               (26)%
Connecticut                         1              3,574,097              1.50               (33)%
Pennsylvania                        3             12,702,379              5.32               (44)%
Illinois                            3             12,830,632              5.37               (44)%
Louisiana                           1              4,533,372              1.90               (47)%
South Carolina                      1              4,625,364              1.94               (48)%
Florida                             4             18,801,310              7.87               (49)%
Tennessee                           1              6,346,105              2.66               (62)%
Texas                               3             25,145,561             10.53               (72)%
Georgia                             1              9,687,653              4.06               (75)%
Wyoming                             0                563,626               .24              (100)%
New Hampshire                       0              1,316,470               .55              (100)%
Maine                               0              1,328,361               .56              (100)%
Hawaii                              0              1,360,301               .57              (100)%
Idaho                               0              1,567,582               .66              (100)%
Mississippi                         0              2,967,297              1.24              (100)%
Colorado                            0              5,029,196              2.11              (100)%
            
Totals                            129            308,143,815            129.00   

I was born in a state of dysphoria [emoji12]

born in Washington DC
now I live in Washington state

I seem to have a Washington theme....

Hi Kim, significance depends upon both the question and how it's asked.  The basic null hypothesis here would be the probability of an individual being transgender is invariant of which state they're born in.  A statistical significance test then asks whether the data is likely to contradict this hypothesis.  I did a quick chi-square on the data so far and got a p value of 1.00, indicating the null hypothesis cannot be rejected even without control for convenience sampling and selection bias.  To indulge in a little more detail, p values range from 0 to 1 with the classic 95% confidence level being 0.05---to reject the null hypothesis at 95% confidence we'd be looking for p < 0.05.

If you're curious to explore further there's a lot of information online about significance testing.  Videos, blogs, wikis, and so on.  Excel has some built in functions (CHISQ.TEST was used for the above) and R is free to download (big learning curve, though).

Quote from: KimSails on May 30, 2015, 10:44:12 PMI apologize for the columns not being straight.  I think they would be in Courier font. This is the most readable display option I found.

They would but no worries, they're easy enough to follow and a good bit more readable than the image was.  Plugging in the BBCode to lay it out as a table would take forever unless you wrote a script, which would take a while too.  For folks who want a more manipulatable version it's quick enough to paste the table into Excel, do fixed width column conversion, and remove the spaces.

Looks like so far I'm the only one born in TN. Which means I can't ever change my birth certificate since the state is so transphobic. Funny thing is I didn't grow up there. I've lived everywhere from NC, NJ, NY and Germany (then West Germany.) I only live there from 1988 to 1998 for college (University of TN - Knoxville) and my first job out of college at The Learning Company - Foreign Language Division (My old name is on some of the old Software Titles from Berlitz and Learn To Speak Series and the Pronunciation Tutors.)

I was just there last week and visited some friends that still work at the University. I found out a how trans positive the University is when a Professor transitioned a few years ago and the University was supportive the whole way. Just with the State Assembly in Nashville felt the same way.

Quote from: CaitlinE on May 31, 2015, 11:30:04 AM
I did a quick chi-square on the data so far and got a p value of 1.00, indicating the null hypothesis cannot be rejected even without control for convenience sampling and selection bias.

Thanks Caitlin!

My understanding of what you wrote is that there is at least a 5% chance that the variations we see are just random differences. And the 5% might be much higher.  Is that a roughly correct interpretation?

Its still fun to ponder!

Thanks!
Kim

@ Kim & Caitlyn,

There is a similar poll for Canada:


https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,155399.0.html


The logistics and demographics for Canada are different, but there is a very clear signal in the numbers there.

MTF born in Tennessee.

Melitta Stafford

 MtF Ohio represent! Now this state just needs to get their head out of their rear :/

Quote from: KimSails on May 31, 2015, 12:44:38 PMMy understanding of what you wrote is that there is at least a 5% chance that the variations we see are just random differences. And the 5% might be much higher.  Is that a roughly correct interpretation?

Yep!  The p value is the probability the observed data is consistent with the null hypothesis.  In the formalism of mathematical logic that's a statement of different semantics.  But with a high p value like we have here it's functionally equivalent.

Quote from: Joules on May 31, 2015, 02:44:21 PMThere is a similar poll for Canada.

Cool!  I'll have to look at the numbers more closely sometime.

Lone representative of CO I guess!

Michigan here. although i'm a MSU fan and student

Quote from: Sydney_NYC on May 31, 2015, 12:39:50 PM
Looks like so far I'm the only one born in TN. Which means I can't ever change my birth certificate since the state is so transphobic. Funny thing is I didn't grow up there. I've lived everywhere from NC, NJ, NY and Germany (then West Germany.) I only live there from 1988 to 1998 for college (University of TN - Knoxville) and my first job out of college at The Learning Company - Foreign Language Division (My old name is on some of the old Software Titles from Berlitz and Learn To Speak Series and the Pronunciation Tutors.)

I was just there last week and visited some friends that still work at the University. I found out a how trans positive the University is when a Professor transitioned a few years ago and the University was supportive the whole way. Just with the State Assembly in Nashville felt the same way.

I am from, and live in, TN. I find it to be a very positive place to live. However, that could simply be from the people that I live around and associate with. I have experienced nothing but positive remarks and comments, but some of my brothers and sisters have not been so lucky.

Im happy that your visit to University was a positive one. My school is also really progressive and it has been a nice place in which to transition.

Melitta