what proportion of transgenders have gender dysphoria?

[lucydogz]

Does anyone know of a source on this? I seem to have read somewhere that TH suffering medically diagnosed GD is pretty small, but don't know if that's true

I thought transgender in its strict definition meant someone with GD. There seem to be other gender variants also described as transgender in the more loose sense though.

It's tricky. The statistics are patchy and, like many other things in this area, the definitions mean what people mean them to mean, rather than having any fixed meaning. Some people will say gender dysphoria is a diagnosable crippling condition requiring medical intervention will others will say any incongruence between one's sex and departing from gender stereotypes is gender dysphoria.

Looking at this link:

patient.info/doctor/gender-dysphoria-pro#nav-2

you'll find a figure that "1% had some degree of gender variance" while you'll find that "in the UK in 2007 as 20 per 100,000 people having sought medical help for gender variance". One could take this to suggest that 1 in 50 people with some degree of gender variance have gender variance sufficiently acute to make them seek medical help. However, any approach like that will elicit the response that there are many people with gender variance who don't seek medical help in the same way that many people don't seek medical help for mental illness. For example for fear of the stigma.

It would be great if this could be studied properly.

'It would be great if this could be studied properly.'

... preferably before sweeping changes to the law are made.

(OP: I do wish your title had been 'What proportion of transgender people', rather than 'transgenders'. But I can't quite articulate why ...

agree with mumsnut.

sorry, I agree with you about the title, I should have thought a bit harder

Personally, I think the original, diagnosable type of "dysphoria" probably remains constant at less than 0.3%. The numbers given for Transsexuals always used to be 0.1% of the population and I doubt that's changed.

That was 0.1% of the total population, though, not 0.1% of trans population.