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Re:On sexism in the tech industry - rebuttal by trhtrsh on Friday October 12, 2012 @11:53AM (#4645555)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsexualism#Prevalence

The DSM-IV (1994) quotes a prevalence of roughly 1 in 30,000 assigned males and 1 in 100,000 assigned females seek sex reassignment surgery in the USA.

So there's a 3x factor feeding into that.

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Re:On sexism in the tech industry - rebuttal by dgordon on Friday October 12, 2012 @06:43PM (#4647182)
Those numbers are based on statistics from the 1960s, when transitioning was next to impossible, and are probably a couple orders of magnitude too low. More to the point, that threefold difference seems to be much smaller, if it exists at all.
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