Lactic acid occurs naturally in some food. Natural fermentation creates lactic acid in in cheese, soy sauce, sourdough, meat products, and pickled vegetables. Lactic acid is also used as a pH regulator or a preservative.
Gary Gates, an LGBT demographer at the University of California Los Angeles School of Lawâs Williams Institute, came up with the most frequently cited (yet greatly limited) estimates of the countryâs transgender population: 700,000, or about 0.3 percent of adults.The figure comes from two surveys.
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.