So, 1.03% of the US population is trans, and some hardliner republicans want to possibly shutdown

[RKP5637]

the government funding if they do not get their way with bans. It's a damn wedge issue. 1.03% of the population. Who really in their right mind gives a fuck. Whatever, it's yet another total WTF!!!

What percentage of the US population is transgender?

About 1.03% of the nation’s adult population identifies as transgender, according to the Household Pulse Survey.[1] This is equivalent to approximately 2.6 million Americans.

Most of the US adult population (97.5%) self-identifies as cisgender.

https://usafacts.org/articles/what-percentage-of-the-us-population-is-transgender/

[Glorfindel]

1. 2.6 million Americans..

About the population of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, and North Dakota combined. Defund those four states and see what happens.

[Ocelot II]

2. But that's exactly why! The percentage of trans people in the US is small, so

it's an easy group to pick on. Most people don't know a trans person, or at least they don't know that they do. And that makes it even easier to pick on them, because if you don't know someone it's that much easier to think of them as "other" and "weird" and even morally suspect. I think the real underlying reason for the shutdown is to sow chaos and disfunction so as to demonstrate that government is useless, but having a small, powerless and "other" group of people to blame provides a partial excuse - "We'll do anything we can to keep the government from doing anything to help these weird people we disapprove of!"

[RKP5637]

3. Pretty much back to Germany in the 1930's. To me today's GOP is really nothing but a

terrorist operation masquerading as a political party. What you said is very well said!!!

[AntivaxHunters]

4. Nice to see more posts about trans people on here

Thank you.
I honestly wonder if I'm not too young for this website. It seems many on here really aren't very interested in this topic at all & posts are far & few between despite so much going on across the country with Republicans trying to erase trans people like my child out of existence entirely....

I know this is an issue young voters care deeply about but here it seems not so much sadly.

[RKP5637]

7. Thanks! n/t

[Chi67]

17. Well

I am 56 years old and I had a trans roommate in college in the 80s. That is just one of more than a few trans acquaintances and friends I have had in my life since. Plenty of us care very much for trans people and their rights and will vote accordingly. I hate the fact that your child has to live through this. It reminds me of what we gay men endured during the AIDS crisis in the 80s.

We have to VOTE OUT THE GOP, and we have to urge all our family and friends to do the same. That is the only way we will ever get this fixed. I know it's hard, but keep your chin up and keep up the fight! We WILL defeat the GOP! There are more of us than there are of them! You got me on your side for sure!

[FreeState]

19. Stick around

Please stick around, trans people need more advocates here - most of the trans posters here have not felt welcome and have left.

[Chi67]

23. Oh no!

Really? I haven't been here quite a year yet, but it seems to me that most posters would welcome trans folks. Maybe I have missed it, but since I have been here it seems most people are supportive of LGBT issues. I will try to post more in trans-related threads in the future.

[vercetti2021]

24. Pretty much this

I post here on the daily and still feel unwelcomed and not wanted.

[walkingman]

5. About 2/3rds of Americans are opposed anti-transgender laws and

about the same for LGBTQ+ discrimination so why so many support the people that do is a mystery to me.

But like so many issues - gun safety, racism, white nationalism, anti-semitism, anti-abortion, and on and on...our politics does not represent the majority.

I personally think our present system is a reflection of a Constitutional form of government that was based on fundamental design flaws.

[RKP5637]

8. It is, there are some fundamental flaws. In today's sea of controversy ... imagine trying to

improve anything. What an endless cat fight that would be.

[Grins]

6. I guess that is why I HAVE NEVER MET ONE!!!!

And I’m old.

And neither have ANY of my friends who lean too far the Reich.

[RKP5637]

9. And ... you might not even know. n/t

[obamanut2012]

27. How do you know you haven't

[LoisB]

10. So now when the government shuts down tomorrow, it's going to be the fault of transgenders? I

thought it was those dang poor families wanting to eat or Hunter Biden's laptop or Joe Biden's sneakers, or Commander's propensity for biting SS Agents...what happened to the old tried and true standbys: Abortions and The GAYZ!

I despise these morons.

[RKP5637]

11. They've come out of the rotten diseased woodwork in the US. Many will blame Obama's brown suit. n/t

[LoisB]

18. I would not be surprised.

[viva la]

12. That's only one of their reasons.

There's also the end to all prosecutions and mean things against Trump.

[RKP5637]

13. yep, plus the defunding of all legal action. They are a terrorist organization, absolutely

no doubt now.

[bdamomma]

20. and just think

in the past they were telling us about outside forces infiltrating the US, but then again, it is the forces within the US who will pose a threat to law abiding American citizens. These are our own domestic enemies/terrorists.


This is just a general statement. Transgender people need to live peacefully too.

[calguy]

14. I'm surprised it's that many

I thought it was less than a half-percent.
I won't tell my Republican neighbors that, because they'd say something like, 'See...? The problem's twice as bad as you thought it was."

[RKP5637]

15. Yeah! n/t

[slightlv]

16. I scanned through the messages, so maybe I missed something...

but I'm old, okay... but I DO know more than a couple of trans people. They are my friends. I stand behind them and beside them. They are good people. They are only trying to live their lives to the best of their ability to stay true to who they are inside. They aren't trying to change the world. They only want to live who they are, inside... who they've always been inside, their whole lives. Who are we to deny them this?

Did you know you were male or female from you earliest aware moment? How? Well... so did these people. The only problem, their outside didn't match their inside. It was a cosmic joke of the most horrible kind.

I'm sorry... as far as I'm concerned, my best friend is much more feminine than MTG could ever hope to be. And supposedly, she was BORN female. Of course, I've not seen her birth certificate. At this point, I dare her to prove it to me.

[RKP5637]

21. People need to leave people alone and get on with their own lives. There is absolutely nothing wrong

with Trans people, but politicians like it as a wedge issue.

[vercetti2021]

25. And here we go

Setting up the scapegoat for all that fucking fails on us Trans people. Its like clockwork. We are so small, yet we apparently hold the power of a fucking God. Can't wait for 2024 when people tell us Trans rights are losing issue and we are tossed to the wolves.

[Chi67]

26. Well

Certainly no one in this thread is going to tell you that. Take heart and know there are people here who support you.

[obamanut2012]

28. Well, that isn't true

Someone in this thread may say that

[vercetti2021]

30. Yep

And I have a list of Usual Suspects that would say shit like that

[RKP5637]

29. It's stunning that millions of people can't comprehend this they are so

blinded by bigotry and disinformation. It isn't hard to see what is going on, but most make no effort ...