Most trans people I know were assigned male at birth, and most nonbinary people I know were assigned female at birth. Is this a thing, and if so, why?
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I wonder if it has anything to do with the trope of men being either straight or gay, and women being more 'biflexible'.
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It's possible you know more male-to-female trans people than you realize. Male puberty features many irreversible changes, such as a deepening of the voice. Consequently, trans women have a much harder time passing as women, so they are more likely to be out as trans.
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It's possible, but the amount of trans men I'd have to not-know-I-know would have to be pretty large to offset the number of trans women, which seems unlikely. I know lots of trans women in my community, and I can't think of a single trans man. Might be specific to my sphere tho.
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It is. I don’t know exactly where I read it, but I recall a study that found that trans women outnumber trans men by a notable margin. The fact that many people assigned female at birth identify as non-binary and do not transition to being men definitely contributed to this.
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There was a psychologist (Kenneth Zucker) and others who have been fired for publishing research that trans is correlated with autism. If the research is valid, since autism is more prevalent in males at birth it could explain more MtF than FtM
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Really? That’s surprising to me, I’m ftm and have met almost nothing but other ftms (completely at random) out of the trans people I do know.
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This has nothing to do with “assigning”. Your genitalia aren’t assigned, they are observed. The sooner we drop the euphemisms, the better
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I don’t even know what “non-binary”’is. Can they not write or type zeros and ones in sequence? What does that even mean?
