The Bleakness of the Gender Identity Landscape…

A great (HUGELY informative!) article from Becky Garrison highlights the difficulties and disparities faced by trans people today:

The findings of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey Report paints a bleak picture of the how this fear of the other translates into victimizing trans people:

• The 6,450 US-based transgender and gender non-conforming participants who took part in the study were nearly four times more likely to have a household income of less than $10,000 a year compared to the general population. So much for the myth advanced by progressive evangelicals like Jim Wallis, Brian McLaren, and Shane Claiborne that one can advocate for anti-poverty measures while ignoring LGBT rights.
• A staggering 41% of respondents reported attempting suicide compared to 1.6% of the general population.
• Discrimination was pervasive throughout the entire sample, yet the combination of anti-transgender bias and persistent, structural racism was especially devastating.

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