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ok so i read there are 47,000 crossdressers on this site. if that is true and this is only let's say 5% of us. if i did the math right then there are about close to 4 1/2 million crossdressers out there. where are they all hiding? there must only be a half a million that go out. i think this number is low. since there are 4 billion men in the world. what do you think?
Unfortunately I do believe this is an answer that no one can answer to properly do the math you would have to find a very higher up on CDH that would brake them 47000 memebers down to who’s transgender,SO,MTF,FTM cross dresser just my thought I apologize
I suppose my first question is: How are we defining CDs? Men who wear any traditionally feminine attire? Men who do hair and makeup as well? Those who go out?
Are you thinking of starting a credit union? I mean...I could go for a good interest rate. Just sayin'.
The real question is how many men want to crossdress but don’t !
The national census of England and Wales in 2021 sought to collect trans data for the first time. I remember answering it.
The form asked "is the gender you identify with the same as the sex you were registered with at birth?". It was a voluntary question. Note no mention of cross dressing.
The figures were low - much less than 1%. The figures were also disputed for a number of reasons , including contrary results from Scotland's version and later withdrawn. They're still online, with a cautionary note that they are a work in progress.
Think about it though. It's a minefield. Honesty comes into play when answering such an intimate question as does self awareness. Even here on cdh profiles, members differ in defining themselves cross dressers but not trans. So how would they have answered the question? Whereas I look at the world as a spectrum of tendencies. I'm on a transgender scale somewhere or other - and I'm not saying that's a correct approach, just one that works for me.
So if they ever try to frame a census question to do with cross dressing, I'm tempted to say good luck!
I'll be interested to see if anyone can unearth data from any reputable surveys on cross dressers as a percentage of population , if such data is out there and not hiding behind academic firewalls.
I would have said that there are more potential cross-dressing men in the world than would ever register on CDH. Here is a excerpt of quote from a Quora contributor:
I strongly suspect that at least a significant minority of men have at least one crossdressing experience in their history. I’ve attended mixed Halloween parties where about a quarter of the men were gender bending.
It would seem that before we can even start to estimate the percentage of cross-dressing men, we need to define what constitutes a [male] cross-dresser. For example, I am a part-time cross-dresser, I dress fully and go out about twice a week, partially most days (at home), so I wear women's clothes and in most eyes, I would be seen as a cross-dresser. If I were dressed all day every day as a woman, to the extent that I had no male clothing at all, am I still a cross-dresser or something more? If, like the example above, I always went to halloween parties dressed as a woman, does that make me a cross-dresser?
In other words, how much does a man have to wear women's clothes to be classed as a cross-dresser, does it require them to go out and be seen as a CDer, or is the man who occasionally wear his wife's underwear also a cross-dresser?
My answer to the OP's question regarding the number of cross-dressers--of any level--is that there are more than you can ever know.
As Emma T says, if they admit to it, then they are cross-dressers, but if they don't it doesn't mean they aren't.
Becca
From my own not dissimilar Q recently, I think I got to my own conclusion that a likely 33% of men have enjoyed cross dressing, knowing it to be “cross dressing” not just having fun in opposite gender clothing for say a vicar & tarts party, Halloween etc.
Perhaps an exit survey at The Rocky Horror Show might be more insightful!
https://www.crossdresserheaven.com/community/postid/568259/
I also doubt there are 47k crossdressers on this site. They may have logged 47k accounts, but there seems to only be perhaps 100-200 or so active people.
It is purely a speculative guess based on scant information. Defining what is a crossdresser is often difficult too as you cannot make assumptions such as a male dressed in female clothes for a party is a default crossdresser. As said here there are those who would never admit or be known so again it adds to speculation.
The last census in the U.K showed a figure of just less than 0.5% of 45.5 million respondents declared themselves trans - that is combined male and female respondents. 0.01% declared non binary or different identity. The total number is about 225,000.
Could we define Transgender as crossdressing, probably not but it gives an idea of how many would declare something which is still a bit of a taboo and if the population were to be asked how many crossdressers there were who would put that on a document declaring they are? And remember that is not specific to MtF or FtM.
I would think that based on this and probability the number of crossdressers is 1% of the population. But then define crossdressing in a world of multiple gender identities and fashion trends.
Good luck.
Great question, doubt we'll ever know the real answer.
I spent decades in my youth believing that I was the only crossdresser in the world.
So much loneliness, shame, guilt, fear, confusion and isolation.
While we may never know the exact numbers, I find great solace and joy in knowing that there are many, many, many of us who share this remarkable passion...
well it looks like this question has no answer. so i'm shutting it down.
We have to remember we're living a very privilleged life.
Of those 4 billions probably at least one has just a few items of basic clothing and struggles to feed their family for tomorrow. I don't think crossdressing is anywhere on their agenda.
For me the answer is simple, many more than are willing or sometimes able to admit it! 😉
I think even if the actual percentage was very high most wouldn't admit it. Some because they'd ruin their Alpha status in the eyes of others, some because they wouldn't want to be part of the "Pronoun Crowd" by association. Others because they just like being private.
Inevitably a difficult question to answer; I think the actual proportion is less than one quarter (though if you were to include those who have just tried on a pair of panties or a pair of tights it would be at least half!) The suggestion of 5% is, however, far too low in my opinion; I'm pretty sure that I'm never more than 400 yards from a crossdresser. One in ten? One in six? Probably somewhere between those two... Alice XXX