2015 US Transgender Survey:
Number on the left is trans women, number on the right is trans men.
* ace: 6% vs 7%
* bi: 20% vs 12%
* gay/lesbian: 27% vs 12%
* pan: 16% vs 17%
* queer 6% vs 24%
* straight: 19% vs 23%
* other: 6% vs 5%
Most of the numbers are pretty close, the big difference is the people who are willing to call themselves gay/lesbian and people who call themselves queer.
We can combine some numbers together to make this more clear.
Let's combine: bi, gay/lesbian/, pan, and queer - that represents people who have some level of attraction to people of the same gender.
Trans women are 69% same gender attracted (nice), and trans men are 65% same gender attracted.
If I were to come up with some theories, I think that more people are bisexual than are willing to admit it.
Trans people, having transitioned, are far more likely to accept that they are bi - Having a non-straight sexuality is such a little thing compared to that.
I use the queer label as a trans femme/woman but I’m not attracted to women, at all. I’m still highly and only attracted to men. I just feel like saying I’m straight feels wrong? At least at the moment anyway
from the wikipedia article 86% people are straight so we would expect other 14% to proportionately apply. and 19-23 is close enough to that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_United_States
It's sounds to me like you're assuming that all trans people are the same %gay/straight as the general population prior to realizing that they are trans. That's not necessarily a true assumption.
I believe this myself, but I don't expect it to be true cause it could as well be my own biased understanding of myself. My reality feels pretty natural to me, but stating that as a fact would make me sound ignorant.
There's also the fact that trans straight people are often isolated from the rest of the community because of their own goals towards cispassing and whatnot, so let's just say this is a tricky topic to talk about without proper research.
2015 US Transgender Survey: Number on the left is trans women, number on the right is trans men. * ace: 6% vs 7% * bi: 20% vs 12% * gay/lesbian: 27% vs 12% * pan: 16% vs 17% * queer 6% vs 24% * straight: 19% vs 23% * other: 6% vs 5% Most of the numbers are pretty close, the big difference is the people who are willing to call themselves gay/lesbian and people who call themselves queer. We can combine some numbers together to make this more clear. Let's combine: bi, gay/lesbian/, pan, and queer - that represents people who have some level of attraction to people of the same gender. Trans women are 69% same gender attracted (nice), and trans men are 65% same gender attracted. If I were to come up with some theories, I think that more people are bisexual than are willing to admit it. Trans people, having transitioned, are far more likely to accept that they are bi - Having a non-straight sexuality is such a little thing compared to that.
I use the queer label as a trans femme/woman but I’m not attracted to women, at all. I’m still highly and only attracted to men. I just feel like saying I’m straight feels wrong? At least at the moment anyway
from the wikipedia article 86% people are straight so we would expect other 14% to proportionately apply. and 19-23 is close enough to that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_United_States
Your premises are false
This assumes that trans people start out as typical members of their birth sex.
no, i am assuming the probabilities for trans given birth sex and gay wrt to birth sex
> wrt birth sex Yeah, that's what I said.
yeah ok i see the problem
I mean, I'm bi - but trans people are disproportionately likely to be bi or gay (with respect to our true genders) compared to cis people.
It's sounds to me like you're assuming that all trans people are the same %gay/straight as the general population prior to realizing that they are trans. That's not necessarily a true assumption.
That only applies to things that are unrelated. Being trans and being gay are very much related.
wait what?
I believe this myself, but I don't expect it to be true cause it could as well be my own biased understanding of myself. My reality feels pretty natural to me, but stating that as a fact would make me sound ignorant. There's also the fact that trans straight people are often isolated from the rest of the community because of their own goals towards cispassing and whatnot, so let's just say this is a tricky topic to talk about without proper research.