No, There are Not Suddenly More Trans People

Phaylen Fairchild

7 min readJun 1, 2022

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Celebrities including Bill Maher, and Politicians like Marjorie Taylor Green are claiming that there appears to be more transgender people than ever before, and they find that distressing.

Maher said recently on his HBO series Real Time With Bill Maher that;

“Broken down over time, the LGBT population of America seems to be…

Phaylen Fairchild

Written by Phaylen Fairchild

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