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Maritime Transgendered Workplace Solutions Project has been created to deal with issues in “Our World” and “Our Workplace” by offering workshops that deal with today’s issues and educate today’s workforce.
Maritime Transgendered Community Projection Figures
The following presentation of numbers will surprise some and reinforce the statements of others. Unfortunately it may also disagree with some preconceived and stated ideas regarding the numbers and content of our community. While the issue of gender identity is complicated and a list of letters keeps being added to the LBGT display on many support groups, this is not about our differences. This is an attempt to clarify the number of people who Physically/mentally have gender identity issues and gain some insight for the government powers that be so we can direct them to give us better services. While we are often lumped in with the Gay and Lesbian community and some of us I know do identify strongly in that fashion, this is not about our sexual orientation.
The term Transgendered is used here with apologies to those such as Two Spirited, Intersexed and others who may strongly feel they are not part of the transgendered community. While we all have the right to identify where we belong and who we are, for the purposes of pinning down our numbers we have taken Transgendered to be a term for all gender issue related people.
Some of those identified are the larger groups, Intersexed, Transsexuals (Post-op,Pre-op, Unspecified) and divided by MTF, FTM, unspecified, two spirited Also Crossdressers and others (others is a wide term used to avoid small numbers that will not be of use in the overall picture)
Statistics Canada resources have been accessed to gain basic population levels and since there is little applicable information gathered in Canada, we have taken the historical figures from Lynn Conway’s site which has a high reputation of being informative. While she takes every effort in her professional role, to ensure accuracy, her numbers refer to American statistics, but there is a strong consistency as some of the Canadian information I have gathered has started to confirm. Read on and judge for yourself.
Means and Ways of this Project
Stage 1
Establishing a
Data Base
A data base now exists and is held by myself and one legal trusted person. Should anything happen to me this person has the control of the information and will make arrangements for the data and work to be carried on in the same way and/or delete all personal information from the data base leaving only the designations and quantities. This arrangement is to assure anyone who confides in us their information, they will never have to be concerned that a government, educational or other group or company will have access to their names, emails or other relative information that could be used to identify them. Anyone questioning this can receive an update of what we hand out. The figures will change constantly as we update and include more and more people.
We request the following basic information from potential people for the list.
Name:
Your name is for you to contact and change your info.
Names are never included in data assembled. A number is also attached in case of
duplication of names. If it is not your real name you should keep a record of it for future
reference.
Email:
So we can email a simple questionnaire and communicate
with you ourselves from time to time. One of the things we could send would be
Annual updated figures and reports on specific related issues.
After initial contact you may ask to have your email
removed permanently and that would be done.
Location:
We only want an idea of your general location, City, Town or County would be useful for identifying medical service needs and education.
Birth Gender Assigned :
Gender identified with
Gender presented
Self identification: Intersexed, Transsexual, Crossdresser, Two Spirited, etc.
Age by group only: example under 15, 15 to 30, 31 to 45, 46 to 64, 65 and over
While this information is not great in detail it allows us to assist other groups and government bodies by providing more accurate figures and locations where services are needed. Without this information we will remain an invisible and much marginalized community. Approximately 20% of the transsexual community aged 15 to 25 in the States ends up in street sex trade and sixty percent remain or drop into the poverty status after transition due to community marginalization. Our community reports medical people have horrendous preconceived ideas/biases related to what they think we are.
Only well informed education can change that, so we need this input.
Stage 2:
Part A:
Develop standard forms and questionnaires for requesting relevant information from people.
Part B:
Develop a regular system of information gathering by/from
Snowballing
Table displays
Drop-ins
Waterhole infiltration
Other group co-operation
Government assistance
Medical services contacts
Web page contacts
Other means developed from experience and needs
Part C:
Work with other organization towards educational goals
Egale, NSRAP, PFLAG, Pride, TG support groups, Social services, Schools, Colleges, Universities, Hospitals, Doctors Etc.
Develop a web page system to assist in information gathering
Ratio of TS in the general
population
Basic assumptions as follows taken from Professor Lynn Conway’s site :
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/TSprevalence.html
“In this
article, we'll show that it is fairly easy to calculate approximate values of
the prevalence of male-to-female (MtF) transsexualism. We first estimate the
number of postop women in the U.S by accumulating the estimated numbers of sex
reassignment surgeries (SRS) performed on
The result is a rough lower bound on postop prevalence, which we find to be about 1:2500.
In other words, at least one or more in every 2500 adult males in the
Based on Lynn Conway’s figures for US,
the following Post Operative #s
would be applicable for
Potential Male to
Female Transsexuals in
2001
Population figures are taken from Stats Canada, a 49% male population is a conservative estimate.
Population of males under 15 is nationally 9%, NS is 8.3% (rounded to 8% for this example )
Population of males over 65 is nationally 5.7 (rounded to 6%) NS is 6.1 % (rounded to 6% for this example)
Population of male prisons - still being researched
Population of crossdressers - ongoing research
Population of transient out of province still being researched
We make some adjustments with the data based on the following reasons.
- Very few transgendered people actually start recognized transition prior to age 15
- Post op and Pre-op become a thinline that gets to be almost irrelevant for our purposes
- Sex trade issues prior to 15 are illegal ones and after 65 are neglible..
- Population Sex Trade. We used 10% of 15 to 64 year olds, the US figures relate to 20% of ages 15 to 25
- While no accurate count is available of crossdressers it has been believed by our community that they out number Intersexed and all transsexuals put together.
- Some crossdressers claim 80% are heterosexual
- Due to persecution and lack of services available, many TS leave their home place and province.
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