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Americans were asked "What percentage of American adults _____" compared with the true proportion.
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It doesn't surprise me. With how much focus there is on issues like trans athletes in the media and politics, people incorrectly assume the actual number of people "at issue" is in proportion. This is how we get state legislatures spending huge amounts of time creating legislation that will impact like three people.
But like, do they not notice that every fifth person they meet isn't trans?
Maybe they think all the trans people are in some other part of the country like New York or California, or maybe they think that trans people are so indistinguishable from cis people that anyone they meet could be secretly trans?
That could explain the paranoia that some people have about trans people. And also why people e.g. think that Daniel Radcliffe's wife is trans because she's taller than him (even though they have a child together, but then again, maybe these people think that transwomen can get pregnant.).
Yet they'll claim "they can always tell" when it comes to yelling at a cis woman trying to use the bathroom.
And in the end they just yell at a menopausal woman who can't afford hormone replacement therapy.
Hell, they'll yell at cis women that are just taller than average or have a short haircut. Or, even more likely, is a PoC.