document updated 13 years ago, on Apr 4, 2011
Statistics about trans folks.
Employment
- [2011] "Our sample was nearly four times more likely to have household income of less than $10,000/year"
"Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey" full PDF
- [2010] 49% of people have never been offered a job when applying as openly transgender
"Transgender Need Not Apply: A Report on Gender Identity Job Discrimination", by the organization "Make The Road"
press summary, full PDF
- [2006] in San Francisco in 2006, the transgender unmployment rate was 35%, while the overall unemployment rate was 4.7%
"Good jobs now!: A snapshot of the economic health of San Francisco's transgender communities", by the Transgender Law Center
full PDF
Depression and suicide
- [2011] 41% of transgender Americans have attempted suicide
"Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey"
press summary, full PDF
Crime
- [2009] Of all LGBTQ people murdered in the US in 2009, 50% were transgender women, and most of the others were gender-nonconforming AMAB folks.
"Hate Violence against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Queer Communities in the United States in 2009", by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs
key chart, press summary, full PDF
Health care
- [2011] "19% of our sample reported being refused medical care due to their transgender or gender non-conforming status"
"Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey" full PDF
Prison
- [2007] a study of six male prisons in California found that sexual assault occured fifteen times more often for those who identify as LGBT
"Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States" by Kay Whitlock, Andrea Ritchie, and Joey Mogul [1]
TODO: this is an indirect reference; get the more direct reference
- [2003] 18.5% of homosexual inmates were sexually assaulted, compared to 2.7% of heterosexual prisoners; though those statistics are for gay people, those perceived as gender-variant were often treated as if they were gay
"Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States" by Kay Whitlock, Andrea Ritchie, and Joey Mogul [1]
TODO: this is an indirect reference; get the more direct reference
See also:
[1]