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.
Residents in the District of Columbia were most likely to identify as LGBT (10%). Among states, the highest percentage was in Hawaii (5.1%) and the lowest in North Dakota (1.7%), but all states are within two percentage points of the nationwide average of 3.5%.