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.
But transgender women â those assigned to be male at birth who identify as women â often began later in life than transgender men. Of the 135,367 likely transgender people who changed their names with the Social Security Administration, 65 percent were transgender men and 35 percent were transgender women.Transgender women, meanwhile, were more likely than transgender men to note the change in their sex with the government.f the 135,367 likely transgender people who changed their names with the Social Security Administration, 65 percent were transgender men and 35 percent were transgender women. Transgender women, meanwhile, were more likely than transgender men to note the change in their sex with the government.