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How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States?
The Williams Institute ^ | Aug 2025 | Jody L. Herman and Andrew R. Flores

Posted on 08/25/2025 2:19:16 PM PDT by fwdude

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To: fwdude

I don’t like Muslims. But one thing they may have right is tossing freaks off of rooftops. Just sayin’.


21 posted on 08/25/2025 3:02:43 PM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: mairdie

My beautiful friend in SF had a daughter who was big and tall and not even pretty or cute. A Harley riding lesbian who was an alcoholic. Her name was Lynn, I went down to the lesbian sectionof town and waited an hour for her to show up for lunch we had planned. I didn’t talk very much about her drinking, just said there was such a thing as a lesbian AA group.

She never had another drink.

When she was in her 30s and after her monther died, she became a Trannie. I’m OK with that.

Definittely not OK with kids in grade school or high school “transitioning”. Their parents belong in jail.


22 posted on 08/25/2025 3:09:34 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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To: fwdude

I’m of an age when we beat up Fags!
That kept them quiet and out of sight.
Somehow they survived and got into
the media. Now they want to
be considered “normal”.
Fags are created, not born that way.
How can real Fags make children?
I’m not God, but I would not miss 1%
of the population that produces about 90%
of our irritation, in the form of politicians
movie stars, and pundits.


23 posted on 08/25/2025 3:12:23 PM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: fwdude

ATF Form 4473, on the current iteration of the form, you must declare if you identify as male, female, or non-binary. What in the sam hill is non-binary?


24 posted on 08/25/2025 3:21:03 PM PDT by kawhill ("Will time say nothing but I told you so?" Auden)
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To: kawhill
What in the sam hill is non-binary?

A fake "identity," just like the others.

I might as well declare myself the King of England with as much veracity.

25 posted on 08/25/2025 3:22:35 PM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: Bigbrown

Given that the media and advertisers make it seem like 80% of our population is black...


26 posted on 08/25/2025 3:33:32 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: fwdude
Non-binary adults?

A DNA test can't tell them if they have XX or XY chromosomes? Maybe they have ZZ chromosomes.

27 posted on 08/25/2025 3:39:06 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: cgbg

Never heard of such a thing till the insane asylums were closed down in the 1970s and the crazies dumped on the streets. Saw my first bums begging at that same time (except in California I saw them in 1968). When closed down the mass murder rates took off like a rocket.


28 posted on 08/25/2025 3:41:40 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: BitWielder1

While the globalists lick their chops...


29 posted on 08/25/2025 3:42:44 PM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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To: kawhill

I don’t remember THAT on the form 4473s back in the 1970s, 80s 0r 90s. Not even in the 2000s.


30 posted on 08/25/2025 3:47:11 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: fwdude

Dumbocrats want to bend over forward to appease 1% ers. No wonder the pro-crime party is in trouble.


31 posted on 08/25/2025 3:51:37 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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To: cgbg

These trans figures are amazingly similar to the percentage of people who
used to be warehoused in insane asylums. I am sure this is a coincidence.


Hah.......beautiful.


32 posted on 08/25/2025 3:54:27 PM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
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To: fwdude

That’s way too many. Brainwashing and reinforcement of the message is killer.
Take COVID for ins[redacted]


33 posted on 08/25/2025 3:59:40 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Veto!

Perfectly sensible approach to things. Agree completely with you. Adults have free will and no matter how stupid their decisions, as long as they affect themselves, that’s their business and you can only hope they end up not hurting themselves and being happier. And if they aren’t, you can hope they make another change and it’s a better one.

Anyone who encourages a child to follow a trend that will lead them into a mentally ill position as they’re growing and developing should be in jail and the children placed under good person influence.


34 posted on 08/25/2025 4:03:29 PM PDT by mairdie
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To: Veto!

One of my lesbian friends was also an alcoholic. She kept it controlled to after school hours and she was a most brilliant teacher in an inner city school. Broke my heart but it never took her over before her cancer took her away. The bravest and best-hearted woman and totally adored by her classes. Taught them Shakespeare in a way that they enjoyed. They protected her in the school neighborhood and she was one of the characters in a stage play written by one of her fellow teachers. There are so many good people whose loss should cause the sky to darken and the world to rage. She was one.


35 posted on 08/25/2025 4:10:49 PM PDT by mairdie
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To: fwdude

and the medical community sees dollar signs both ways in helping them believe it’s possible, doing ridiculous things in pursuit go it and then at some point saying lets try to help you back to reality, if we can and you haven’t already killed yourself.


36 posted on 08/25/2025 4:19:27 PM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: fwdude; Opinionated Blowhard; mairdie; cgbg; BitWielder1
I can’t find the link in my essay right now, but the author identifies this increase to popular social contagion. He says eating disorders have the same source and are contended against, but sexual deviance is enabled.

After a 1,500 percent increase in the number of female teenagers identifying as transgender in a 10-year-period, the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare assessed that the risks of puberty blockers and so-called gender-affirming treatment were likely to outweigh the expected benefits. Denmark, seeing an 8,700 percent increase in the number of documented pediatric cases requesting transgender surgery. A similar phenomenon has been noted in the US for a decade-to-decade increases. In Britian they find disturbing that referrals Gender-Identity Clinic have experienced a 17-fold increase in the past ten years.

The question is why. Other countries are reluctant to move beyond talking therapy, because other procedures are considered experimental and lack quality controls. They find no traditional scientific information to justify treatments driven by the cultural wars in the U.S. The Democrat Party takes a leading role in these cultural wars allying legacy media, scientists, teachers, counselors, medical professionals, and pharmaceutical companies into a critical mass sabotaging or ignoring accurate scientific study.

The evidence to support medicalised gender transitions in adolescents is worryingly weak

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/04/05/the-evidence-to-support-medicalised-gender-transitions-in-adolescents-is-worryingly-weak

Almost all America’s medical authorities support gender-affirming care. But those in Britain, Finland, France, Norway and Sweden, while supporting talking therapy as a first step, have misgivings about the pharmacological and surgical elements of the treatment. The effectiveness and side-effects of the most common treatments are not well understood.

37 posted on 08/25/2025 4:20:07 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: fwdude

It’s a lot like how many people wore bell bottoms in the 1970’s.


38 posted on 08/25/2025 4:29:01 PM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words? )
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To: fwdude

Trannies are wack.


39 posted on 08/25/2025 5:20:49 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (US spending on Ukraine over 3.5 years exceeds the all military aid to Israel over 77 years. - Grok)
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To: mairdie

The amount of conservative families with one boggles the mind


40 posted on 08/25/2025 5:23:59 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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