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I likely accidentally counted people twice or skipped someone, but regardless here's a general idea of the makeup of our population from the sample size of the post I made.
Also, it shortened transmasculine/feminine nonbinary on the graph.
I typed in the value for cis women as zero, and it didn't show up on the chart so keep that in mind.
Interesting result. While there is no evidence suggesting the general population is out of balance when it comes to ratios of transfemme vs transmasc identities, my observation is hat online expression is biased towards the feminine side of things. Your quick and dirty little survey would suggest the same.
Very curious if this is indeed the case and if so, what causes the bias. Do transmasculine identifying people just touch more grass? Does transfeminine content attract cis men to a larger degree than transmasc content attracts cis women? Therefore causing a bias in content delivery and by effect engagement? Or am I just suffering from confirmation bias and am I more likely to notice transfeminine stuff?
Feels like this sort of stuff could be a cool research project. And there's likely a buttload of data available just from regular posts.
And sorry to all of you enbies for focusing on the extremes of the spectrum. You're just a little more difficult to fit into these comparisons because your whole deal is defying categorization as either. I promise you are interesting too!
"When asked how they think of themselves, a plurality of trans adults identify as non-binary (40%), with about one in five identifying as trans women (22%) or gender non-conforming (22%), and a smaller share identifying as trans men (12%). Others say they identify in some other way (2%)."
Source
whats interesting in that survey is that when referring to sex, it is basically an even distribution. so that means afabs are identifying in more diverse ways, as the sexes are basically even
That's true. I was thinking of the ratio of binary trans men to trans women originally. I wonder if it's because afabs are socially allowed more freedom from the binary and amabs feel like they have to conform more for safety and to avoid stigma.
that or maybe there is more stigma of being seen as a man in their minds?
Wdym
this is more of something i heard from an enby friend, but they felt like masculinity was sort of toxic in their heads so they dont feel comfortable identifying that way even though theyre on T and stuff
Not sure if that's more of a thing or not with transmascs. Seems to me like there'd be more stigma in identifying with feminity and/or womanhood as an amab because society prizes masculinity and sees it as the default and devalues and degrades feminity.
I've heard passing (especially straight) trans men say that they felt very unwelcome and excluded in irl queer communities. Maybe that's a factor, who knows.
I'm just throwing out ideas. Could be that there's no reason or a variety of reasons.
Ah so there is research suggesting the bias is real! Interesting, thanks for the link! Now I'm even more curious what could cause the difference.
There are tons of transmasc people online, just not on reddit/Lemmy. Let's be real the core userbase of this website seems to be programmers (I am not one, but I've had multiple people at this point tell me they are in unrelated discussions). I'm sure y'all know the sexism that comes with being a girl in comp sci. If you're living as a girl during high school/college age, it's harder and honestly just uncomfortable to sit through male-dominated classes where half your classmates don't respect you just due to your gender.
Yeah that's a good point. Lemmy userbase in general might be biased. Definitely feel bad for all the women genuinely interested in tech fields who have to put up with the sausage fest shenanigans.