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1 in 3 KNOW someone whos trans, not IS someon who's trans
yes, that's what im saying.
That's still a very high stat. 33% to be specific.
Its KINDA high? You do realize the flipside to that stat is that 66% of people dont know a single person personally that is trans. So yeah, theres a non zero chance a family member is trans, non zero literally means something isnt impossible, but your first paragraph made it seem like you were interpreting that stat to say if you had 2 siblings that there was a good chance one of you was trans, which is false
that would be how percentages work yes.
I do believe i mentioned that it was statistically possible, specifically, my point was that its very likely that you at least know someone who is. Though i probably did fuck up the bit about family lol.
It's very likely that you know someone who knows someone who is trans. Not very likely that any one person knows someone who is trans. The actual percentage of people who are trans is like less than 1% iirc
the stat listed there is literally "fewer than 1 in 3 personally know someone who is trans" my main thing there was the fact that given that information, and given degrees of separation of knowing 3 people, statistically, you know someone who knows someone who is trans. And might even actively be involved to some degree.
It's really not that high for knowing someone. It only takes about 7 degrees to link any two people in the world. One in three people knowing someone is almost 3 degrees of separation which is massive.
still twice as common as that metric. Which is a pretty good starting point.
even then, three degrees of separation is still relatively close to your mutual friend group.