I'm curious as to what the litmus even is for meeting "needing to do a toy drive" in proportion to "how many trans kids there are."

Like 10/1000 trans kids without toys?

100/1000 trans kids without toys?

Is it like once we hit an overall quota of trans kids then we have permission for a toy drive? 1,000? 10,000? 20,000? 100,00? (even more)?

Or is it like a ratio? Like 1:1000 of the total population of Maine is not enough to justify a toy drive but 2:1000 would be?

I think we do collect demographic data on things like this but my guess is it probably had more to do with the director of our youths program wanting the folx in their care to experience something good.

If you can figure out which of those numbers and which methodology you'd like used I can probably ask someone from our executive team.

Though, I have a genuine question too because I like to volunteer and help out y'know. Should this be standard operating procedure for interacting with the community and altruism? Like if someone is doing an Eagle Scout project should I ask them if they have formed a class action with other Eagle Scouts to establish their need? High school doing a bake sale -- well how many students even are there that we need to do a bake sale?

The numbers are probably not off the scales, suppressed in part because this is a hard demographic to survey, many would be trans folx simply choose to suffer instead of transition or join the community because of pressure, and because we are generally resistant to inquest. Even if we did rule out all those factors it may not be enough to please everyone.