If I search for the number of the trans population, I find https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/transgender-population-by-state which suggests a rate of identifying as trans of 0.5% in for people between 18 and 25. It seems to cite the Williams Institute as a source which seems to me like an organization that’s friendly toward trans people and doesn’t really have a reason to misstate the prevalence. When I searched for information other sources also came up with something in the same ballpark.
At that base rate, knowing 60 to 80 people and nobody of them being trans should not be surprising.
Do you believe that the base rates that organizations like the Williams Institute come up with are wrong?
No. I’m disagreeing with Bezzi’s claim to have never encountered any trans person and to have no trans people in their extended social network of hundreds or thousands. I don’t doubt their self-report re: visibly trans people, but they’re unjustified in the conclusion “there just aren’t invisible trans people around me in my town.”
If I search for the number of the trans population, I find https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/transgender-population-by-state which suggests a rate of identifying as trans of 0.5% in for people between 18 and 25. It seems to cite the Williams Institute as a source which seems to me like an organization that’s friendly toward trans people and doesn’t really have a reason to misstate the prevalence. When I searched for information other sources also came up with something in the same ballpark.
At that base rate, knowing 60 to 80 people and nobody of them being trans should not be surprising.
Do you believe that the base rates that organizations like the Williams Institute come up with are wrong?
No. I’m disagreeing with Bezzi’s claim to have never encountered any trans person and to have no trans people in their extended social network of hundreds or thousands. I don’t doubt their self-report re: visibly trans people, but they’re unjustified in the conclusion “there just aren’t invisible trans people around me in my town.”