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.
CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCK/J. BICKING. Determining how many transgender people there are in the U.S. has been challenging for a number of reasons, but a new study from the Williams Institute estimates that there are approximately 1.4 million of them â twice as many as were previously estimated.