I attended a meeting recently where a Psychologist specializing in GID (Gender Identity Disorder) spoke on the current information available on GID. She stated that in
. 1 in 100 men cross dress on a regular basis either in part, termed under dressing(wearing of female garments under rationally male garments) or in full presentation (wearing clothes normally associated as female, makeup and prosthetics)
. of the 1 in 100 - 88% are still in the closet limiting their activities to either dressing outside of the home or in secret within the home.
. of the 1 in 100 - 12 % are out of the closet actively presenting as female in public
. 83% of first marriages end in divorce when transgendered activities are revealed, after 4 years of marriage.
. 92% of relationships are stable(in reguards to crossdressing) when disclosed at the start of a relationship.
There was additional information, but until i confirm the sources i will limit it to above. In view of the above I have created the following table and have come to the following conclusions
LOOK AT THE TABLE AT THE END OF THIS POST THEN CONSIDER :
Average football stadium seats 70,000 and if half are women then there may be 350 crossdressers in attendance.
Average airport handles 101,000 passengers each day and if half are women then there may be 505 crossdressers intraveling.
Average NASCAR has 167,000 and if half are women then there may be 835 crossdressers would be attending.
At the 109 congress there were 458 men, so there may be 4 or 5 CD Senators or Congresmen. What state do you think they are in ?
Sorry girls, thats the best I can do on the carts , Put on you rose colored reading glasses if you need them.
Uh oh. This seems to have touched something with people. I will answer what i can. I did the chart late at night, after being awake for 20 hrs.
The out of the closet profile, was specificly NOT full time crossdressers, or pre or post OP Transsexuals.
I am not a statician, I just:
.multiplied the population*.001 for number of crossdressers
.multiplied the number of crossdressers*.12 for the out figure
.multiplied the number of crossdressers*.88 for the closeted crossdressers.
the corrected formula must be more like:
.multiplied the number of crossdressers*.12*.5 for the out male crossdressers
.multiplied the number of crossdressers*.88*.5 for the closeted male crossdressers.
The meeting was at a TriEss chapter in Baltimore
I agree the actual numbers should be half to account for half(approx) of the population being male.
Either way its still a heck of a lot of people. Makes me wonder what the FTM numbers would add to it.
I will leave it up to the researchers to make the determination, I just thought it was fun information.
Kelly