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==Criticism and statistics== | ==Criticism and statistics== | ||
With a prevalence of only 0.001%, transgenderism is unlikely much more prevalent than [[wikipedia:Mutation–selection balance|mutation-selection]] balance would predict, hence it is unlikely an evolved sexual strategy.<ref>https://tgmentalhealth.com/2012/02/13/the-prevalence-of-transgenderism-an-update/ | With a prevalence of only 0.001% among adults, transgenderism is unlikely much more prevalent than [[wikipedia:Mutation–selection balance|mutation-selection]] balance would predict, hence it is unlikely an evolved sexual strategy.<ref>https://tgmentalhealth.com/2012/02/13/the-prevalence-of-transgenderism-an-update/ | ||
https://tgmentalhealth.com/2010/03/31/the-prevalence-of-transgenderism/</ref> | https://tgmentalhealth.com/2010/03/31/the-prevalence-of-transgenderism/</ref> | ||
Young transgenders (which are much more common) appear to often use the protected class status of transgenderism as a means of status ascension (a.k.a. ''transtrender''), which is evidenced by the fact that most revert their sexual orientation after a while. Many adult transgenders show signs of deleterious [[mutation]] or adverse social environments, which is not to say that they are worse human beings, but that it may be a critical component of their etiology and counter-evidence to their phenotype being expression of an adaptive sexual strategy, at least in humans. | |||
These claims are corroborated by the statistics below: | These claims are corroborated by the statistics below: | ||