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[–]LoveScience[S] 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

One of the last tables breaks down identification by generation and sex.

Here's how things look for "transgender":

Silent Generation: 0.4% women, 0% men

Baby Boomers: 0% women, 0.2% men

Gen X: 0.1% women, 0.3% men

Millennial: 0.4% women, 0.3% men

Gen Z: 2.1% women, 0.9% men

Nobody seems to be questioning how women in Gen Z are twice as likely to be trans whereas in every other generation they're about the same.

This is what Abigail Shrier was writing about. This is ROGD.

[–]MarkTwainiac 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Except I'm suspicious about what the words "women" and "men" in that list are being used to mean.

For example, I don't believe that 0.4% of adult females of the Silent Generation (people born 1928-1945) were/are trans compared to 0% of the adult males. TIPs that generation seem to be overwhelmingly adult males.

Also, if 0.4% of adult females and 0% of adult males of the Silent Generation are/were trans, then it seems odd that 0% of the adult females and 0.2% of the adult males of the next generation are trans.

Is it really true that a higher percentage of Millennial Gen females than males are trans?

[–]LoveScience[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Goodness - you (and Gritobo) are totally right. I forgot I'd have to do that backwards thinking to figure out the reality.

It looks like they polled 12k people to get this data which means 0.9% (their transgender percentage) of that would be 108. That's a pretty small sample across all those generations and might account for the weird distribution between Silent/Boomers/others.

[–]Gritobo 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Do we actually know if all participants are using the words men and women to mean the same thing?