Percentages get crazy when you start talking about 8 billion people. 1% is 80 million. If 1% of that found lemmy the active user base would be almost half Trans. (I found around 1.2 million active lemmy users on some website, and 800,000 is 1% of 80,000,000)

Aren't >95% of people online lurkers? With that in mind, is it really surprising that the amount of trans stories are many? I mean, why would someone post a story about how they're _not_ trans.

> 1.2 million active lemmy users There's no way that's true. I'd guess there are ~30000 active users on the entire threadiverse. 1.2 million is total registered users ever, across all servers, including spambots and such.

1% is 1/100. So not on every bus, but every 2 or 3 busses. Also tend to be poorer, like public transit. So maybe every bus.

Ehhh... Where'd that come from?

I am happy that trans people can be who they want to be, even if there is still a long way to go. But I am thrown by how statistics, that consistently give numbers of <1% to 3% for transsexual people in the general population, don't match the number of transitioning stories I read online. I get why that is, safe space, confirmation bias and all, but it's such a major disconnect between experience and actual numbers that it constantly trips me up. From what I read online, the percentage of trans people feels like it's around 20-30%. Or, in this case, 50%.

Might just be where trans people spawn if there aren't any trains nearby.

How's this related to the gender ratio in the Dungeons & Dragons community?

I was in an all guys group but then the DM and 3 of the guys had kids so it ended. I imagine there's a lower percentage of trans players outside of these online spaces