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Various attempts to estimate the prevalence of cross-dressing amongst males have founder on the rocky questions defining ‘cross-dressing’ and similar matters of debate.
Perhaps the most reasonable (in appearance) estimate is 3%. Today I was looking at the opening comments on a treatise on cross-dressing in classical Athens. I suddenly got the impression that there is far more interest in Cross-dressing as evinced by a far larger segment of the North American population than seems probable. Assuming for each paper, theses, Book, blog, study, etc., etc. published on the matter there must be at least 1,000 persons interested in the topic to make publication worthwhile. Probably many more. And from what I have seen it is not necessarily the cross-dressers who seek out academic dissertations.
If one assumes that the North American population is 400,000,000 persons, 200,000,000 of whom are male, and that 3% of the latter have a definite inclination to being feminine and dressing accordingly, then the estimate of the number of cross-dressers is about 12,000,000.
I do not know how many works exist with the issues as a focus, but I would think at least several thousand. Say 3,000. So 3,000,000 interested persons (?).
Okay! The numbers are a guess, but there is something intriguing in what appears to be a rather significant interest in gender variation.
Araminta.
I have never seen, nor do I think it exists, the definitive work on crossdressing. I have seen anywhere for 20% down to the 3% you mentions, but the number most often sited is about 5% of US males dress. Of course a lot has to do with definitions. I suspect the 20% number reflects the % of men who have tried it at some point for more then a time or two, and the 5% those of us who do so fairly often. The 3% is likely those who truly identify as crossdressers.
I do think it is fair to say that a surprisingly large number of men have tried on femme items to one degree or other.
And I used to think I was the only one in the entire world… lol
Happy dressing to all my sisters around the world!
Hi Araminta,
This is a topic I can’t resist – I’ve revisited it more than few times, and never been too confident about any conclusions.
The UK (well, England and Wales) official census of 2021 included a (voluntarily answered) gender clarification question ( I think for the first time ).
The outcome:
6% chose not to answer ( … and the immediate thought is why not?)
94% answered. 93.5% answered their gender identity matched their sex as recorded at birth. A mere 0.5% said it didn’t.
Now there’s likely a whole number of reasons why this figure seems ‘under’ . I’m particularly drawn to the 6% figure of responders who chose not to simply tick a box to indicate they weren’t conflicted. That would hardly be much effort, unless at the back of responders’ minds was a little niggle that they didn’t want to fib, so chose not to answer. ( Or have I missed something?)
Still, it’s another data set to play with. And at least someone in the Census office is ensuring the data is being collected.
Btw if anyone is interested, this page summarises the Census analysis:
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The U.K. census focused on gender and it was a 50-50 split between male and female trans. 46000 of each from memory. Those that chose not to answer were probably waiting for a new label they can identify with out of the 80 or so, last count, from Stonewall to be different from the rest. That’s me being cynical about this gender blur.
It is difficult to guesstimate how many crossdressers there are as how do you define such?Someone who fully dresses or wears something of the opposing sex?
Due to the fact that there would be so many that would never disclose so even if there was a census the number will remain elusive.
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