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Originally posted by Crom:
"For trans people, the most recent estimate was published in 2016 using data from the CDC’s 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and estimates that transgender people are about 0.6% of the US population or about 1.4 million adult Americans."
https://www.quora.com/Are-ther...xual-transgender-etc

I am really surprised it is that high. I thought it would be like 0.006%

"For trans people, the most recent estimate was published in 2016 using data from the CDC’s 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and estimates that transgender people are about 0.6% of the US population or about 1.4 million adult Americans. This number is double the 2011 estimate that was 0.3% or 700,000 adult Americans and is based on a significantly larger sample size.[1]"

There's your first and best indication these numbers are total BS. So in a meer five years the number of these deviants doubled? Yeah, right. I don't know what the 'right' number is, but I'll bet $20 this estimate is total garbage. Oh, and the CDC is a government agency, therefore whatever numbers it publishes should be taken with a huge grain of salt (or ignored outright).

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Originally posted by bigdeal:

quote:

Originally posted by Crom:
"For trans people, the most recent estimate was published in 2016 using data from the CDC’s 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and estimates that transgender people are about 0.6% of the US population or about 1.4 million adult Americans."
https://www.quora.com/Are-ther...xual-transgender-etc

I am really surprised it is that high. I thought it would be like 0.006%

"For trans people, the most recent estimate was published in 2016 using data from the CDC’s 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and estimates that transgender people are about 0.6% of the US population or about 1.4 million adult Americans. This number is double the 2011 estimate that was 0.3% or 700,000 adult Americans and is based on a significantly larger sample size.[1]"

There's your first and best indication these numbers are total BS. So in a meer five years the number of these deviants doubled? Yeah, right. I don't know what the 'right' number is, but I'll bet $20 this estimate is total garbage. Oh, and the CDC is a government agency, therefore whatever numbers it publishes should be taken with a huge grain of salt (or ignored outright).

^^^^^Yup. Nailed it.

At what point are people going to call this (trans) what it really is?

Mental Disorder

The only assistance the military should be providing to those "trans" in uniform already is a visit to the shrink and a discharge....in that order, just like the guys who say that they have a drug problem...head shrinker, and TAPS class and sign here -congrats you are no longer in the military, bye.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Some certain anchors on FNC are also kinda losing their minds over this. Julie Banderas just expressed such retardedness. Frankly I'm disappointed in her, but whatever. The stupidest thing she did was refer to a statement by John McCain because he's served in the military and she hasn't so she deferred to him.

Frankly, I no longer watch ANY of them, including Foxnews.

To the OP subject, I did 11 years in the army, got out in 1966. No doubt there were some gays in the services back then, but nobody knew who they were, and we cared less.

Using our military like a bunch of lab rats has gone on way too long, and way too damned far!

Now Trump needs to clean up the upper echelons of the military. That means getting rid of many of those wearing general/admiral rank who were appointed purely because of their political leanings.

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At what point are people going to call this (trans) what it really is?

Mental Disorder

That's the part I don't get.

If a human identifies as anything other than they were born, it tends to be classified as a mental illness. The only exception is when they believe they are the opposite sex.

When a guy believes he is Jesus Christ, he's nuts. When a guy believes he's a girl, he's somehow a girl really trapped in a man's body.

I will still treat them with the respect that any human deserves just like I would anybody else with any other mental disorder.

Farmer Lyle was at the next table , while I was at lunch.

He claim's that the military population is the lowest its ever been , based on the population of the U.S.A., less that 3%.

He said that if 8,000 brilliant or semi brilliant t.g.'s want to fight for the good of the United states,
he'd rather have them than 12,000 high school drop out , morons that are avoiding going to prison.

Lyle was in the Viet Nam military , He had never associated with black people prior to the marine's . it was a wake up call .