1900% increase in MTF SRS surgeries since 1960s? There were no such surgeries done in the US until the 1970s – people had to go abroad.
People “identifying as transgender” when “transgender” has always been deliberately left such that it has no firm definition and so has many different meanings. Whilst some people do identify as transgender, mostly it is an umbrella term for specific identities or situations. Someone registered female at birth whose gender is male is more likely to identify as a boy, or man, than transgender, and transgender is more of a third gender being imposed on many others unwillingly. Since some have policed the term, saying others are cannot be transgender (such as drag queens, or cross dressers, and now non-binary) the contraction “trans” has become the preferred universal umbrella, especially since it linguistically covers transsexual as well as travesti, (distinct, long and firmly held categories/identities in many communities) as well as transgender, without erasing them. This study seems likely to e by people who do identify as transgender and are “growing” their own identity for (somewhat abusive) political reasons.
Where does one begin with this mess of a study?
1900% increase in MTF SRS surgeries since 1960s? There were no such surgeries done in the US until the 1970s – people had to go abroad.
People “identifying as transgender” when “transgender” has always been deliberately left such that it has no firm definition and so has many different meanings. Whilst some people do identify as transgender, mostly it is an umbrella term for specific identities or situations. Someone registered female at birth whose gender is male is more likely to identify as a boy, or man, than transgender, and transgender is more of a third gender being imposed on many others unwillingly. Since some have policed the term, saying others are cannot be transgender (such as drag queens, or cross dressers, and now non-binary) the contraction “trans” has become the preferred universal umbrella, especially since it linguistically covers transsexual as well as travesti, (distinct, long and firmly held categories/identities in many communities) as well as transgender, without erasing them. This study seems likely to e by people who do identify as transgender and are “growing” their own identity for (somewhat abusive) political reasons.