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Trans@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 9 months ago

Why are FTMs so invisible in the mainstream?

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Why are FTMs so invisible in the mainstream?

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Trans@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 9 months ago

I’ve got my own takes on this, but I’m curious about y’all’s.

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Looks like there may be ~500,000 transgender men in the US. That’s about 1 out of every 600 people in the US. That’s a pretty low frequency.

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/

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