Prevalence of Transgender
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:14 am
We really have no good idea of how many transfolk there are out there. Each new survey seems to arrive at a higher number than the last. Here is a report on one of the best studies that Ive found, with yet a higher number than anything Ive seen before.
A very recent report from the Netherlands (unfortunately in the Dutch language) presented detailed data of a non-clinical sample (Kuyper, 2012).
In a sample of 4,052 men and 4,012 women, 4.6% of men and 3.2% of women expressed a degree of ambivalence regarding their gender identity, while 1.1% of men and 0.8% of women described it as incongruent with their physical bodies. There was a desire to undergo medical treatment in 0.7% of men and 0.2% of women of those who had ambivalences regarding their gender identity and in 0.3% of men and 0.05% of women of those viewed their bodies as incongruent with their gender identity (Kuyper, 2012).
Kuyper, L. (2012). Transgenders in Nederland: prevalentie en attitudes. Tijdschrift voor Seksuologie 36(2), 129-135.
Now we just need better figures on the target genders that all of these people have. Our best number on Male-to-Eunuch is still not very solid. It comes from a study of 1,049 individuals who were approved for full Male-to-Female transition in the Netherlands, complete with SRS, to be completely paid for by the national health insurance. 24% of them were satisfied once they had received either an orchiectomy or anti-androgens and did not transition further. Our best guess would be that they fit the MtE category much better than MtF, but neither of the researchers thought to ask (Cohen-Kettenis & Pfäfflin, 2009).
A very recent report from the Netherlands (unfortunately in the Dutch language) presented detailed data of a non-clinical sample (Kuyper, 2012).
In a sample of 4,052 men and 4,012 women, 4.6% of men and 3.2% of women expressed a degree of ambivalence regarding their gender identity, while 1.1% of men and 0.8% of women described it as incongruent with their physical bodies. There was a desire to undergo medical treatment in 0.7% of men and 0.2% of women of those who had ambivalences regarding their gender identity and in 0.3% of men and 0.05% of women of those viewed their bodies as incongruent with their gender identity (Kuyper, 2012).
Kuyper, L. (2012). Transgenders in Nederland: prevalentie en attitudes. Tijdschrift voor Seksuologie 36(2), 129-135.
Now we just need better figures on the target genders that all of these people have. Our best number on Male-to-Eunuch is still not very solid. It comes from a study of 1,049 individuals who were approved for full Male-to-Female transition in the Netherlands, complete with SRS, to be completely paid for by the national health insurance. 24% of them were satisfied once they had received either an orchiectomy or anti-androgens and did not transition further. Our best guess would be that they fit the MtE category much better than MtF, but neither of the researchers thought to ask (Cohen-Kettenis & Pfäfflin, 2009).