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trans2007-12-26 08:26 am
jennyemily.livejournal.com) wrote in trans2007-12-26 08:26 am
How many?
Talking to my older sister yesterday, I discovered that yet another person who I went through education with is trans. They were at my sixth form college. I didn't know them, but she did. She was told the story by one of her friends who still doesn't know about me; she still didn't tell him.
It made me muse about the real incidence of transsexuality. I've seen many figures from 1 in 30,000 down to 1 in 11,900, but I'm convinced it's rather higher. I have found out about one other person from my secondary school (and I suspect a second) and know there were at least four of us during my time at University. When working at the BBC I discovered another person, and in local radio I found that the staff included three transpeople including me, and the station controller's first husband divorced her in the 1970s in order to transition in Los Angeles. Now there's some-one from my sixth form college too.
Given that the sum total of all the people who would have been in education or at work immediately with me is perhaps at most 20,000, that means that those I know about add up to an incidence of around 9 or 10 in 20,000 or approximately 1 in 2,000.
Doubtless there were more people who were either not out, stealth, or who I never found out about. I know from having gone back to doing work for the LGBTa at the University that there were approximately four transpeople in every academic year who got involved or who sought help and support that there are more than people might think.
That led me to wonder a lot about the quoted figures: they're just plain wrong. Anybody else here go to Bolton School, Turton sixth form or Durham University? Just curious.
It made me muse about the real incidence of transsexuality. I've seen many figures from 1 in 30,000 down to 1 in 11,900, but I'm convinced it's rather higher. I have found out about one other person from my secondary school (and I suspect a second) and know there were at least four of us during my time at University. When working at the BBC I discovered another person, and in local radio I found that the staff included three transpeople including me, and the station controller's first husband divorced her in the 1970s in order to transition in Los Angeles. Now there's some-one from my sixth form college too.
Given that the sum total of all the people who would have been in education or at work immediately with me is perhaps at most 20,000, that means that those I know about add up to an incidence of around 9 or 10 in 20,000 or approximately 1 in 2,000.
Doubtless there were more people who were either not out, stealth, or who I never found out about. I know from having gone back to doing work for the LGBTa at the University that there were approximately four transpeople in every academic year who got involved or who sought help and support that there are more than people might think.
That led me to wonder a lot about the quoted figures: they're just plain wrong. Anybody else here go to Bolton School, Turton sixth form or Durham University? Just curious.