despite historical over-reporting of trans women compared to trans men, by the numbers there are roughly the same number of trans men as trans women. Trans women are just given more attention by the media and society, and can be more represented in online and IRL trans groups for various reasons.
Of the 2.1 million adults who identify as transgender, 32.7% (698,500) are transgender women, 34.2% (730,500) are transgender men, and 33.1% (707,100) are transgender nonbinary adults.
Studies have consistently reported a greater prevalence of MTF than FTM.12 A recent meta-review found a ratio of ∼2:1.1 We had previously noted an increase over the past two decades in the percentage of FTM initiating sex hormone therapy compared with MTF.4 We have now reached the point wherein we are seeing at least as many FTM initiating sex hormone therapy as MTF.
I guess there’s no reason to think the natural variation would be greater for one category or another. My only guess is that some people might identify as NB for political reasons that don’t tie back to biology, but it’s not clear, and if my memory is not wrong, among younger generations the number of people identifying as non-binary exceed the number of trans identifying people.
EDIT: among Gen Z, the percent of people identifying as trans is around 1.9 - 2% which is consistent with long-term, cross-cultural estimates of trans demographics of being between 0.5 - 2% of the population, but 7% of Gen Z identified as “non-binary” in 2024 according to the Household Pulse Survey:
One factor in this might be that it’s traditionally more socially acceptable for a woman to adopt masculine habits than vice versa. There isn’t as much social pressure to change how you identify if you’re a tomboy.
Not really, actually from experience trans men tend to come out sooner on average so in youth groups there’s usually more trans men. Online and in the discourse trans women are more present, but IRL in trans/queer spaces it’s not the case.
Edit: With age it should be around 50/50 in total
is it just my impression or are there fewer trans men than trans fems? at least of what i personally happen to experience
which i find sad because tomboys/trans men(?) are hella hot. i’m not sure about trans men though because i rarely ever meet any.
trans girls in my experience are very vocal online, along with being constantly targeted in the news. so by virtue youll see more of us.
if you look up the numbers its about an even split though
yeah makes sense
despite historical over-reporting of trans women compared to trans men, by the numbers there are roughly the same number of trans men as trans women. Trans women are just given more attention by the media and society, and can be more represented in online and IRL trans groups for various reasons.
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7906237/
I find it so interesting that the distribution is roughly equal for each category. Roughly a third identify as male, female, and NB.
I guess there’s no reason to think the natural variation would be greater for one category or another. My only guess is that some people might identify as NB for political reasons that don’t tie back to biology, but it’s not clear, and if my memory is not wrong, among younger generations the number of people identifying as non-binary exceed the number of trans identifying people.
EDIT: among Gen Z, the percent of people identifying as trans is around 1.9 - 2% which is consistent with long-term, cross-cultural estimates of trans demographics of being between 0.5 - 2% of the population, but 7% of Gen Z identified as “non-binary” in 2024 according to the Household Pulse Survey:
https://www.generationtechblog.com/p/the-surprising-number-of-young-adults
One factor in this might be that it’s traditionally more socially acceptable for a woman to adopt masculine habits than vice versa. There isn’t as much social pressure to change how you identify if you’re a tomboy.
Not really, actually from experience trans men tend to come out sooner on average so in youth groups there’s usually more trans men. Online and in the discourse trans women are more present, but IRL in trans/queer spaces it’s not the case. Edit: With age it should be around 50/50 in total