I always have a bit of dissonance when people talk about how small the trans community is. In absolute terms, if you take us as a share of population and dependent on how one qualifies “trans,” we land at somewhere between 1% and 2.4% of the adult population. Sounds tiny right? Except here in Jersey City, if you take the lowest estimates that’s still just a bit north of 2,300 trans adults. Enough that most people have shared space with us, but seemingly are unaware of that.
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We rely on each other for information, informal knowledge stores for medicine, politics, social arrangements. We have a culture unique to us, difficult for outsiders to truly grasp. It feels like operating in an entirely distinct world, one in which there is an expectation of some base level of support that I struggle to replicate within the other communities that I’m a part of.