In Illinois, roughly 80 percent of adults who described themselves as transgender or gender nonconforming say they were harassed and 33 percent said they were physically assaulted in school, according the 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Ten percent of those who responded to the survey said harassment was so bad they dropped out of a K-12 school or higher education.