we have the meta data for the census!
so i don't have to do maths.
227 who ticked "gender different to one registered at birth" but didnt' elaborate further.
Which gives us a total of 610 "not cis" people in this region.
remember I said the area next to us has a huge number more? We have the breakdown there too. There's a disproportionately large number of trans men, which raises MORE questions.
1306 people ticked "not cis" but didn't specify
513 trans men (!??? why so many more?)
Which gives us a rather substantial 2333 "not cis" people. to put that into perspective, Brighton and Hove, the "gay capital of england" has 2341 "not cis" people. (interestingly also, the non binary people represent more than both trans men and women put together in brighton. Which is facinating. Brighton is non binary land lol)
It's really interesting to compare because we literally live on the border between these two areas. Our area is generally around 75% white (our specific little chunk is only 60% because we're on the border) while over the border you're looking at between 50% and 20% white. (some parts it's down to like 6%. HAH.)
These areas are predominantly Indian and "other asian" (the categories were Indian, Chinese, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and "other") so the "other" section isn't that helpful as that covers quite a substantial geographical area.
The dominant religious groups are Sikh and Muslim.
A very large percentage of people in that area do not hold British nationality. So a very large immigrant population. Which may explain some of the differences in attitude.
What's also interesting is that in those regions there's a hugely high percentage of "not answered" for sexuality and gender identity standing at around 10%. So given 10% of people didn't answer the fact that you're looking at 1-1.4% saying they're not cis and around 3% saying they're lgb, that's quite high numbers. Which is even more curious to me. Overall that whole area is 0.5% but you can look at each little chunk (the electoral wards) individually and certainly in that area there's a HUGE divide between the very white parts of the borough and the very Desi/British Asian parts. The number of "not cis" people is substantially higher in the "not white" areas. Now isn't that interesting? I think it's interesting. We're talking over 1% in those areas vs 0.4% in the white majority areas. on the flip side, substantially more people identify as lgb in the white majority areas (4-6%) vs the Desi regions (2-3.5%)
I know Islam can be quite homophobic so that would explain the very large "did not answer" percentage (in some regions it's as high as 13% and hovers at about 10% for sexuality and 9% for gender identity) in those regions. But i find it facinating that despite that hostility there is such a significant number of trans people.
And i'm still really really curious about that disproportionately high number of trans men. Usually the stats sit at around 50/50 for men and women so that sway is very interesting.
overall I think all this data is really really interesting. I love seeing how diverse my surroundings are and knowing i'm not alone.
Now I gotta find all these hundreds of other trans people damnit! If we combine forces maybe we can bully our local doctors into not being shit!
