Quote Originally Posted by ReineD View Post
I wouldn't put much credence into the author Dr. Vernon Coleman....

In the Amazon preview, it says that he surveyed just over 1,000 British males, but it is unclear how he did this (from the preview).
Reine - I agree with you from what I've read about Dr Coleman... Seems like he qualified as a GP in 1970 (from which his medical credibility stems) but since 1973 he has been primarily a columnist and author on anything and everything... I've been trying to find more info about the survey but can't recover the details (damn Google!) but I do recall reading that it was a voluntary survey through one of the tabloids he worked for.. so yes, self-selecting and thus totally without any good statistical foundation.

I think I may have posted this somewhere before but I have it as a table now so it's clearer - this is the most complete compilation of surveys that I've found to date (from G.G. Bolich, Today's Transgender Realities, 2008) although personally I think Coleman's should be excluded - one would normally drop the highest and lowest outliers in surveys anyway.


Study (arranged by year) Results
J.L. McCary (1978) Less than 1%
W.B. Arndt (1991) Less than 0.5%
S. Janus & C.L. Janus (1993) 3% of women; 6% of men
Vernon Coleman (1996) 10% of men
Lynn Conway (2001-2002) 2%-5% of adult males
N. Langstrom & K.J. Zucker (2005) 0.4% of women; 2.8% of men

I'd suggest that our membership and participation here represents a distinct subset of the CD world... Other sites out on the interwebs that heavily outnumber our splendid little forum are much more into the fetish, sex and dating side of CDing. My extrapolation from this is that we here represent a higher proportion of TG/trans* than fetish CDers and that other sites would likely see the reverse. To me, this means that the 'fetish' CD population is a bigger part of the whole than the CD/TG/TS element and because these surveys encompass ALL CDers, we are thus a smaller part of the whole. Rationally, we'd be more vocal as well because we do go out and have a need to express this aspect that fetish CDers don't. Possibly why we're hard to spot in the wild...

I realise why we might want to believe we are more numerous, but I still don't see the evidence for it.

If anyone has any different referenceable material I'd love to hear from them...

Katey x