EdmontunSun.com – By Andrew Hanon
Psychiatrist is considered to be almost a saint by some of his patients
Dr. Lorne Warneke shakes his head whenever he hears the “official” statistics.
“They’re way off,” Alberta’s only psychiatrist who specializes in transgender issues says with a rueful smile.
The generally accepted numbers are that one in every 67,000 males is transgendered, or a woman inside a man’s body.
Men trapped in women’s bodies are much more rare, about one in every 107,000.
But Warneke’s own informal research in the Edmonton area suggests a much more staggering number – a combined average of one in 3,000.