WASHINGTON: Transgender people live under dramatically varying circumstances around the world — often facing violent repression, but also conquering crucial new rights most notably in Europe and the United States. There are few reliable statistics on the community, in part because many transgender people around the world are unable to come out. And there are sometimes misunderstandings of the complex and changing vocabulary involved.Transgender people According to a study published in 2011 by The Williams Institute, an LGBT think tank, an estimated 0.3 per cent of the US population is transgender. There are no reliable global statistics on the community, but India's historic...
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