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Trans people are more likely to come from poorer backgrounds, study finds
(www.thepinknews.com)
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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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title is some crazy unsubstantiated clickbait, and the article itself is a massive nothing burger. Basically, there are more trans people recorded in the poorer parts of the UK, and they generally have poorer mental health than cis people. Which is entirely unsurprising and unhelpful at this broad of an analysis.
To be clearer, the distinction I'm drawing is that the title implies causation when all the study is is a correlation. "There are more trans people in poorer areas" is not the same statement as "poor people are more likely to be trans."
Why is it unsurprising that trans people are more common in poorer areas?
That was my thought, there are more poor areas than wealthy.
Statistically, you'd have more of everything in poorer areas; except wealth.