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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I don't know but this a potentially an important observation. First, is it true? Does anyone in Twitterland have any good data?
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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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I can’t find the study but I have two different pieces of support for what I’ve said. The numbers here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_man that say that the ratio to the general population is 1:2,000 to 1:100,000, while here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227946/ … we have numbers for trans people in general
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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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Fired for science? Even psuedo science? What about bad science? I heard it happened to Hugh Everett but that was another universe.
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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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I don't personally know any MtF, but I have 2 friends that are FtM.
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