Transwomen are definitely more visible in online spaces more (at least as a group). E.g. here in threadiverse 99% of posts from trans communities in the “all” feed are mtf related, even on general trans communities. And transfem communities are much more active.
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fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Statistics says no! Actually pretty balanced. Maybe you just notice trans fem people more?
deadcream@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
communism@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
That’s definitely a you thing of where you go on the internet. e.g. on Tumblr or ao3 the bias in the trans population is in the opposite direction.
fifi@piefed.zip 3 months ago
That’s probably what caused me to post, especially to a safer space like nostupidquestions. I had an impulse feeling, I was already falling asleep, but really wanted to ask. Pretty great to see all the information condensed in this thread!
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Flawed sampling methodology
SouthEndSunset@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Probably cause of all the “men dressing as women and going in women’s spaces” bollocks.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 months ago
Medical statistics say “there are huge error bars by methodology but it’s about 2:1”. Of course, this does include biases that make some people more likely to “find out” and “come out” but not the visibility bias (which plays some role on the former two but not as much).
Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 3 months ago
I don’t know if it’s true, but I think I heard that in terms of transitions in the last decade, FtM outnumbers MtF.
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It solidifies the notion that men being masculine is such a strong stereotype that any deviation from it is noticed far more.