I don’t know if I believe this article. I’ve met quite a lot of people, school, military, working corporate AV. Met a couple thousand people probably across all of that, likely 6-700 that I got to know decently well.
I know quite few that decided to go gay, but only one single person that went full-blown transvestite. Anecdotally, that’s 0.17%, not 1.5%
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