• Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    What’s the percentage on transgender people? 1% or lower? Way lower, even. I say we open the gates and accept as many as want to come in. Couldn’t be more than a couple million people.

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      It depends on the source and how free people feel to answer surveys and censuses honestly, but it tends to be estimated that between 0.5% and 1% of the population are transgender or nonbinary. So your estimate of the total trans population in the USA is probably not too far off.

      I’d love for Canada to make a point of offering asylum to transgender people who are persecuted in other countries. But we have to tame our own right wing to ensure trans people are safe and can live a good life here. Though the Liberals narrowly won the general election, the results still showed a worrying lurch to the right.