Post #4523410 · Elektrine

2026-08-22 13:11 UTC

The previous gold standard research on the trans population was a 2022 Pew study with a huge respondent pool of a little over 100,000 respondents, and found 1.6% of Americans were trans. The HRC's source data is TWENTY-FIVE TIMES bigger. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/06/07/about-5-of-young-adults-in-the-u-s-say-their-gender-is-different-from-their-sex-assigned-at-birth/

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@Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io 2026-08-22 13:12

The immediate part that's stunning here is that the HRC's numbers, at 2.34%, are almost a FIFTY PERCENT increase on Pew's, with only a couple of extra years having passed, and that's after the Pew study approximately tripled the population of the best study before it, from 2017. But. But here's the thing: the source data for the HRC is *census* data. That's the part that absolutely blows my head off. Why? Because minoritized people lie about being minoriities when the government asks. Governments use the data do genocides. We're not dumb. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/05/05/millions-of-americans-changed-their-racial-or-ethnic-identity-from-one-census-to-the-next/

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