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<blockquote data-quote="Next Day Err" data-source="post: 5864209" data-attributes="member: 107379">From Newsweek:Of the estimated 332 million citizens living in the United States, 1.3 million adults and 300,000 youth ages 13 to 17 identify as transgender, equaling half a percent and 1.4 percent of the population respectively, according to a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-study-estimates-16-million-us-identify-transgender-2022-06-10/" target="_blank">report </a>published by Williams Institute, a think tank at UCLA&#039;s Law School in 2022.Not all transgender people identify as women, and an even smaller number consists of transgender women hoping to compete in girls&#039; and women&#039;s sports.Privacy laws make it tough to identify the exact number of transgender athletes competing in public school sports, but researcher and medical physicist Joanna Harper estimates the number can&#039;t exceed 100 nationwide.&quot;While we don&#039;t know the exact number of trans women competing in NCAA sports, I would be very surprised if there were more than 100 of them in the women&#039;s category,&quot; Harper told Newsweek.One hundred transgender athletes would comprise an incredibly small number of the U.S. population, and the number dwindles even further when it comes to middle school and high school athletes.<hr />All this hyperventilating over a vaninshingly small number of trans athletes competing in public schools. It’s just like radicals to pick on the weakest or smallest numbers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Next Day Err, post: 5864209, member: 107379"] From Newsweek: Of the estimated 332 million citizens living in the United States, 1.3 million adults and 300,000 youth ages 13 to 17 identify as transgender, equaling half a percent and 1.4 percent of the population respectively, according to a [URL='https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-study-estimates-16-million-us-identify-transgender-2022-06-10/']report [/URL]published by Williams Institute, a think tank at UCLA's Law School in 2022. Not all transgender people identify as women, and an even smaller number consists of transgender women hoping to compete in girls' and women's sports. Privacy laws make it tough to identify the exact number of transgender athletes competing in public school sports, but [B]researcher and medical physicist Joanna Harper estimates the number can't exceed 100 nationwide.[/B] "While we don't know the exact number of trans women competing in NCAA sports, I would be very surprised if there were more than 100 of them in the women's category," Harper told [I]Newsweek[/I]. One hundred transgender athletes would comprise an incredibly small number of the U.S. population, and the number dwindles even further when it comes to middle school and high school athletes. [HR][/HR] All this hyperventilating over a vaninshingly small number of trans athletes competing in public schools. It’s just like radicals to pick on the weakest or smallest numbers. [/QUOTE]

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