check this site out. it's probably much closer to 1:500 - 1:250. the first estimate you have there is based on old genital surgery rates, which would explain the huge variation between "males" and "females". (quotes because i don't agree with the standard definitions of male & female).
"To calculate a rough lower bound on prevalence of MtF sex reassignment surgeries in the U.S., we simply divide the number of postop women, which is about 32,000, by the number of U. S. males between 18 - 60 (the age range from which most current post-ops originated), which is about 80,000,000:
32,000/80,000,000 = 1/2500.
Anyway, we discover to our amazement that at least one out of every 2500 persons who were originally male in the U. S. has ALREADY undergone SRS to become female! This 1:2,500 estimate is vastly higher than the 1:30,000 estimate so oft-quoted by the medical community. The DSM-IV number is clearly way off, and by at least a factor of 12! However, on closer examination we will find the error is far worse than even that!"
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the second estimate is new to me too.
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"To calculate a rough lower bound on prevalence of MtF sex reassignment surgeries in the U.S., we simply divide the number of postop women, which is about 32,000, by the number of U. S. males between 18 - 60 (the age range from which most current post-ops originated), which is about 80,000,000:
32,000/80,000,000 = 1/2500.
Anyway, we discover to our amazement that at least one out of every 2500 persons who were originally male in the U. S. has ALREADY undergone SRS to become female! This 1:2,500 estimate is vastly higher than the 1:30,000 estimate so oft-quoted by the medical community. The DSM-IV number is clearly way off, and by at least a factor of 12! However, on closer examination we will find the error is far worse than even that!"
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