-It may sound strange to some readers to speak of _economics_ in this context, where many are used to thinking that if you're trans, you _need_ to transition to survive, and if you're not, then transitioning would be a nightmare. But empirically, [there are](https://transblog.grieve-smith.com/2017/01/28/all-other-things-being-equal/) people who experience significant-but-not-crippling levels of gender dyprhoria, who are certainly likely to have _thought_ about—considered—dreamed of transitioning, but who haven't been desperate enough to make the leap in real life given their present circumstances. (Indeed, if "transness" is a unimodal continuous quantity, we should expect there to be far more maybe-trans-under-the-right-circumstances people than people who would be "trans at any cost", for the same reason there are more "merely" six-foot-tall people than there are towering six-and-a-half-foot-tall people.)
+It may sound strange to some readers to speak of _economics_ in this context, where many are used to thinking that if you're trans, you _need_ to transition to survive, and if you're not, then transitioning would be a nightmare. But empirically, [there are](https://transblog.grieve-smith.com/2017/01/28/all-other-things-being-equal/) people who experience significant-but-not-crippling levels of gender dyprhoria, who are certainly likely to have _thought_ about—considered—dreamed of transitioning, but who haven't been desperate enough to make the leap in real life given their present circumstances.
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+Indeed, if "transness" is a unimodal continuous quantity, we should expect there to be far more maybe-trans-under-the-right-circumstances people than people who would be "trans at any cost", for the same reason there are more "merely" six-foot-tall people than there are towering six-and-a-half-foot-tall people—
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+![dysphoria distribution]({filename}/images/dysphoria_distribution.png)