Only 0.53 percent of Americans, or 1.3 million people, identify as transgender, according to data from a 2014 federal survey originally published in the American Journal of Public Health. In other words, an overwhelming majority of 99.47 percent of Americans do not identify as trans.
The survey, which reviewed a total of 151,000 adult respondents from 19 different states, did not specifically note those who’ve undergone some sort of physical “transition,” but instead included anyone who “identities” as a gender different than their biology. “Researchers say that 0.53 percent of respondents — about one in every 189 U.S. adults — answered ‘yes’ to the question, ‘Do you consider yourself to be transgender?'” reports CBS News.
Still, the Obama Administration has gone into full panic mode over transgenderism. For instance, an overreaching federal edict was issued forcing all public schools to allow their students the use the locker-rooms and bathrooms of their subjectively-declared gender, based on their feelings and not biology. Schools which do not comply are threatened with revoked funding and lawsuits. The Obama Administration has also sided against North Carolina’s House Bill 2, dubbed the “bathroom bill,” which reinforces the state’s position that governmen-funded buildings separate bathrooms by the gender reflected on a person’s birth certificate, even allowing trans folks who’ve physically “transitioned” the use of their desired bathroom.
While the number of estimated trans individuals is undeniably tiny relative to the U.S. population, it is growing. As reported by The Daily Wire in May, 2011 survey results found that only 0.3 percent of Americans, or about 700,000 individuals, identified as transgender. The Williams Institute came to their estimate by averaging the findings from two sets of survey data, one from California and one from Massachusetts.
This spike is an unsurprising phenomenon resulting from the left’s glamorization of transgenderism. From Hollywood to attention-seeking parents to national magazines, the left is willfully advocating sexual confusion and mainstreaming gender dysphoria by pushing their so-called “gender revolution.”
As recent studies have indicated, a stunning 40 percent of trans folks have attempted suicide, relative to just 4.6 percent of the general population. They also see an increase in homelessness and joblessness.
