Posted on 07/01/2016 4:21:28 AM PDT by reaganaut1
About 1.4 million adults in the United States identify as transgender, double a widely used previous estimate, according to an analysis based on new federal and state data.
As the national debate escalates over accommodations for transgender people, the new figure, though still just 0.6 percent of the adult population, is likely to raise questions about the sufficiency of services to support a population that may be larger than many policy makers assumed.
“There’s a saying: ‘You don’t count in policy circles until someone counts you,’” said Gary J. Gates, a demographer and former research director of the group that did the analysis, the Williams Institute at the U.C.L.A. School of Law, which focuses on law and policy issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
The Williams Institute is the research group that produced a widely accepted estimate five years ago. Its new number was drawn from a much larger federal database than it used to reach the earlier projection of 0.3 percent, or 700,000 people.
Noting that younger adults ages 18 to 24 were more likely than older ones to say they were transgender, researchers said that the new estimates reflected in part a growing awareness of transgender identity.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Mental illness is applauded. Sickening.
I don’t believe this number at all..rubbish
The new estimate and the old estimate are both....estimates!
Would the NYT print a revised estimate that was lower? Would a lower estimate even be made?
It’s not just the lies and the agenda ...it’s the artless way in which they are presented as Holy Writ.
Put in the junk pile with the unemployment rate, globull warming stats and inflation indexes that don’t include food and fuel. 6 in 1,000 - what friggin planet are they on.
In some states the results at first glance seemed surprising. In New York, for example, the percentage was 0.51; in Texas it was 0.66.
“From prior research, we know that trans people are more likely to be from racial and ethnic minorities, particularly from Latino backgrounds,” Jody L. Herman, a scholar of public policy at the institute, said.”
This self reporting survey is merely an attempt to bolster the media campaign for transgender rights. The survey is not accurate.
“About 1.4 million adults in the United States identify as transgender”
“Noting that younger adults ages 18 to 24 were more likely than older ones to say they were transgender”
In other words, the trannies in your Judeo-Christian country are doubled; being half comprised of the children this Muslim-led atheistic administration began reprogramming in 2008.
Do you suppose if our media and courts and churches and schools applauded bestiality, then that would increase, too?
"Hey, Butthead ... you mean all we have to do is say we're chicks and then we can go into the girls' locker room?! Heh-heh!"
A transgender (male at birth) took first place in the AK state track women’s school championship. A transgender (male at birth) was elected prom queen at the Fame high school.
Feminists think they put men in their places once and for all, but men have found a way around it.
Join the military. They will buy you a penis or vagina. Ain’t this a swell country?
Don't believe it.
I don’t believe these figures at all. IMO they are manufactured so as to give them a seat at this unnatural population.
Liars.
I believe that # of 1.6 million transgender as soon as I believe the homosexual population is 10 %.....
Both # are pulled from someone’s arse....
I recall that during Clinton’s Balkan war, the Muslim forces invaded a Christian village being protected by a Dutch contingent of NATO. The article mentioned this Dutch unit was primarily homosexual and that they threw down their weapons and allowed the Muslims to kill and kidnap the Christians.
Twaddle. But I do wonder if all those women taking hormonal contraceptives for all those years might explain why there are more people now who have a physical appearance that suggests they are teetering on the male-female scale.
Conjured them up out of smoke and moonbeams didja? As long as you’re just making up numbers, why not quadruple their population? Heck, why not make them the majority and normal heterosexuals the rarity?
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