If you do a search on the Internet, you will be able to find many websites that will tell you they have a cure for heartburn. When talking about a disease or other health condition, people most often think of a cure as the putting a permanent end to that disease or condition and making a person healthy again.
O'Day Simmons enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in the late 1970s. The latest analysis, published last year by UCLA researchers, estimated that nearly 150,000 transgender people have served in the military, or about 21% of all transgender adults in the U.S. By comparison, 10% of the general population has served.
The fully urban District of Columbia has the highest percentage of adults who identify as transgender, with 14,550 people â around 2.77 percent of the federal district's population. Several states have 100,000 or more people who identify as transgender, according to the researchers: California, with 218,000; Florida, with 100,300; and Texas, with 125,350. The highest percentages of adults identifying as transgender per state were found in Hawaii, California, Georgia, and New Mexico â all with 0.8 percent â followed by Texas and Florida with 0.7 percent, according to the study.