I was talking to one of my kids earlier today about some of my old friends and they pointed out that it is something like half of my friends-made-before-we-had-children group that has at least one child who has transitioned/is transitioning.

This seems like an excellent sign of my good taste in people. I have always been attracted to my people. I also have a significantly high rate of befriending neurodiverse folks. I suspect some correlation there.

(I think it is probably actually somewhere in the 30% – 40% range of families I know but even so that is phenomenally far outside the 1% rate of transitioning in the general population.)