How many TS in the US?

[lifeisfiction]

There are 18,652,532 Trans women and if you don't believe go count it yourself. Because I have and its the number I ended up with.

[castor_troyuk]

Well they claim the number can be as low as one in 250. I'd say it might be higher than that, with girls like Carmen Moore and her sister, and cousin. Gina&Geneva, and Britney Markham and Audrina Markham increasing the odds in families. So there is probably around a few million, mostly unannounced and just living their lives

[robertlouis]

Its impossible to guess since most trans women, who aren't in the "business", more than likely live stealth/low profile.... I'm not an escort, nor am I a pornstar, but I am on YouTube and don't live stealth(only when dating)

Basically, however many you think are out there.... Double or triple it

You're more typical of my experience, Jen. I know plenty of girls who just live their lives, holding down ordinary jobs and many, I'm pleased to say, in loving relationships. Certainly far more than escorts and girls in porn. OK, this is a UK perspective, but I suspect it's pretty representative. And of the girls I know who do escort, most are in it with a short or medium-term objective to make enough to pay for surgeries, often including full srs, and then retire into a relationship with an ordinary guy like any other wife or partner.

What's really important as time goes on and society becomes more accepting, is that girls shouldn't have to live their lives in stealth and should be free to be open and proud about their origins and status. I reckon we're not too far away from that in the UK - 20 years maybe - but in the US with the wingnut fundamentalists in the Republican Party it could still take generations.

And on a personal note, I'm delighted that you're into a steady relationship - you deserve it.

[Ecstatic]

Well they claim the number can be as low as one in 250. I'd say it might be higher than that, with girls like Carmen Moore and her sister, and cousin. Gina&Geneva, and Britney Markham and Audrina Markham increasing the odds in families. So there is probably around a few million, mostly unannounced and just living their lives

In the USA, 1 in 250 would be over 1.2 million total. Yeah, it's in the millions.

[nycguy1]

ironically, overpopulation reduction, as a conspiracy, doesn't make sense for those in power. when you have a large populace, cost of labor drops and therefore your profits rise. it just makes you richer and richer. sure they are a pest but you don't have to live around the poor/destitute.

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dear poor man, and feminized woman:
i am in the super rich bracket, please continue to churn out dime a dozen babies who will be ready to work in my sweatshops or fields for pennies on the dollar. i bring to you institutionalized/sophisticated slavery at its finest since ancient greece, egypt, africa, mesopotamia. don't like it? go starve. next in line, step up and work or die, all while i dangle a ferrari you may be able to earn yourself up to one day, that is if healthcare costs don't bankrupt you. tee hee! oh btw, i own those private healthcare companies who will bankrupt you. thinking about rebelling? i also own stock ticker CXW on cnbc, corporations corrections of america. please come on in and fill a bed so tax dollars can fund my portfolio. you didn't think i wasn't going to let you get away that easy, did you?

-signed, super rich land and means of production owner

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on a side note, read http://www.cnbc.com/id/49743630

[jennieh]

I think that 1 in 500 number may be a bit low. I don't get around a lot and my part of the country is conservative. However, I've known three who have changed gender while I knew them: one at the local library, one in our neighborhood, and one employee at a local gun store. And, who knows who is out there and is keeping quiet about it.

[CORVETTEDUDE]

WAIT.....Stop the presses, I found another one!!!

[Rusty Eldora]

Breast augmentation seems to be rather common in Tgirls. Not sure if Tgirls go out of the US for their rack due to all of the "must be under councilling" before we do it routine. However, it appears that in 2010 well under 1% (it notes 0%) of the 296,000 procedures were on males. Possibly they classify under female?

http://www.plasticsurgery.org/docume...tatistics2.pdf

[littletwink]

I identify as queer, since I'm not a full TS but I am instead more TV/CD.

I may not count in the survey, but there's definitely a lot of us out here.

[jennieh]

There are even more if you include CD and TVs (and, yes, I include them because most of them have the TS mindset even without hormones or plastic surgery).

I used to crossdress years ago with my ex-wife’s eager participation. And if the hormone and surgery advances had been in place just a few years ago, I would have started on the road to being a TS with her approval.

I’m sure there are many others like that who can’t afford the surgery or know that they will find problems with others accepting them.