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by JMS2021 1516 days ago
LGB, sure. I know loads. Ts? Don't know a single one.
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What fraction of Netflix's shows have trans characters?

According to this report: https://www.glaad.org/whereweareontv21

As a percentage of just the LGBTQ characters, both overall and in streaming specifically, trans characters were about 7%.

I'm not sure exactly what their total character count was, but that seems to put the percentage of trans characters solidly under 1%. Which is about right for matching the real prevalence of somewhere vaguely around half a percent. I think a slight overrepresentation could be justified, too, but there doesn't seem to be overrepresentation by these numbers.

It's fairly likely that you've met a trans person and didn't realize they were one.