I live in a small mountain town that used to not let blacks sleep here but it was a very inexpensive suburb in the 60s-90 so a lot of live and let live hippies moved here. I’d guess culturally we’re a little left of the suburban ring but not so left as the urban core. All of that is to say I think the community would generally be friendly to a transperson but I don’t know that I’ve seen any of the 8 that statistically live here, not that I even slight pay attention past how they present themselves.
I live/work in a small town rural area. I’ve seen and met one person that I know of.
One of my “rules” is don’t assume a woman is pregnant unless she tells you she is. I don’t know anybody who has told me they are transgender. I guess it would be a statistics question. Based on where you work, live, where you hang out, and so forth, what is the expected value for number of transgender people you have seen for a particular day?
I have a sibling who is non-binary. I don’t see them as as often as I’d like because of the distance.
I had a student who may have been.
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The only study I am aware of off the top of my head says about 0.6% of the US population identifies as transgender. No doubt some of that percentage are people who aren’t visibly recognizable as transgender, in that they don’t dress or present in any particular way. So it’s fairly rare.
I can’t find any data on geographic distribution, but it probably isn’t random. If you live or work in a LBTQ-friendly community, you will see more, both because there are more of them and because they are more “out”. Suburban and rural areas, probably less so.
To answer the OP, I personally don’t see many, or at least don’t notice. One in a thousand sounds about right, but it’s no more than a guess.
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Two of the last half dozen or so transgendered people I interacted with were cashiers at Target.
I suspect that I don’t always spot transgendered people, but sometimes I do notice. Maybe once a month or so, but I suspect I encounter them much more frequently.
And I’ve seen trans women in restrooms. It doesn’t bother me a bit, although I usually notice that they seem very uncomfortable, they don’t make eye contact. It makes me feel kind of bad for them, it must be difficult at times.
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As a guy who has used public restrooms many times, I’ve never made eye contact with another guy in a restroom.
I’m a store cashier, but we are forbidden to discuss such issues unless the customer brings it up first. I’m sure I’ve seen a few, but they were concentrating on getting their items rung up, bagged, and paying for them to make the announcement about their transgenderism.
Furthermore, I do not give a rat’s ass about those things.
I live/work in a small town rural area. I have no idea; I don’t see how I could have any idea. That is, I suppose an occasional person is obvious, and of course one might know that a specific person’s transgendered because they said so or because of knowing them before and after their transition, but a market customer or the clerk at the store or the person ahead of me in the checkout line at the library? I don’t know the details of their gender any more than I know the details of their sexual preferences or than I know where their grandfather grew up. Nor does it matter.
MortSahlFan, how do you know?
installLSC, I can think of reasons why a cis person might be wearing a pin stating pronouns. Some cis people’s gender isn’t obvious just by looking at them, either; and/or they might want to make anybody using non-obvious pronouns feel comfortable around them.
I’ve had at least three students over the years who identified as transgender, plus one more who used they / them pronouns. Outside of my work life, I have no idea. (Three of the students were biologically female, went by fairly gender-ambiguous names, and I would have assumed they were cis women if they hadn’t said that they preferred male or neutral pronouns; I would have suspected that the fourth student was probably a trans woman but wouldn’t have been 100% sure if I hadn’t had access to academic records with the student’s birth name.)
I see a few a month in my practice of medicine. I used to prescribe hormones for them, but that part has been taken over by a specialist in that area. I just deal with their other medical issues now.
Pretty much every time I go out to or host non-gaming social events and about half the time if I’m gaming, since my circles run that way. I probably encounter more going out and about in stores and the like, but on a passing glance you can’t actually discern whether someone is trans, cross-dressing, non-gender-conforming, cis-but-looks-masculine/feminine, cis-but-has a short/long haircut, or whatever other category they fit into.
In my experience, a preferred pronoun pin is much more of a ‘I run in queer circles’ identifier than ‘I am transgender myself’, like wearing clothes with rainbow designs on them. And generally if an event is trying to be actively LGBT friendly, they’ll encourage everyone to state or put their pronouns on name tags so that no one gets singled out as ‘oh, look at the one freak with unusual pronouns’.
I work in a large office complex and there are a few transwomen that I see from time to time in the main hallway or cafeteria.
The only transgender individual I know personally is an old college friend who came out (?) a few years ago.
A pretty good friend of ours is transgendered, so every week or two usually.
It was mentioned 0.6 percent of people. Then I was thinking what the percent would be in my small Tennesse town. Then thought… ‘Transgenderness’ isn’t really area specific. While some may move to a more friend environment, I suspect that in places like this there are people who would be transgender if they lived in a more transgender friendly location.
I have no idea. Without someone self-identifying, or having known their personal history, I couldn’t distinguish someone who was non-gender-conforming in appearance or clothing who was not transgender from someone who was. As far as I can recall, I have only met in person one transgender individual, a board member who was open about her status.
Probably all the time. I don’t care to look. And if I saw someone that looked what one “expects” a transgenderd person to look like, it’s not like I’m going to ask. So no way to know.
I seem to see them more often lately and I always make note of it and smile (in my head, obviously). Not sure if the national conversation has made me more aware or if folks are feeling freer to be themselves but it gives me a tiny flash of happiness and hope for our shitty society.
Maybe it’s because I haven’t gotten out much in recent years (due to health issues) but I can’t remember the last time I noticed someone. Of.course seeing and noticing are two different things.
Even when I took the train into Philly everyday I can’t recall noticing anyone.
Probably I’m just not looking for such things as it’s none of my business.