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LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — The recently released 2015 National Center for Transgender Education (NCTE) Transgender Survey findings are in short, a confirmation of earlier surveys and other research findings — things are as dire as we’ve been saying they are.

The NCTE stated 28,000 trans people completed the survey — four times the number of the previous survey (2008-09).

[Disclosure: I participated in the 2015 survey.]

On the upside, the survey bolsters our position in arguing for legal, administrative and legislative means of relief and/or equality. On the downside, conditions have improved very little for the average trans person even though much has been achieved. I would point out though, we have set the stage for younger trans people to have a less difficult route to happiness than many of us endured.

Sadly, recent election outcomes throws a monkey wrench in the formulating of what lies ahead for trans people. At best, things remain the same, at worse, a rollback of several decades of legislative gains. At this writing, absolutely no one has clue to exactly what is going to transpire. Probably not even the president-elect himself.

Survey highlights (taken from the NCTE Summary):

In the year prior to completing the survey:

46% of respondents were verbally harassed.

30% who had a job reported being fired, denied a promotion, or experiencing some other form of mistreatment.

Mental health:

39% of respondents experienced serious psychological distress in the month prior to completing the survey.

40% attempted suicide in their lifetime.

Economics:

29% of all respondents were living in poverty.

38% poverty level for Black, 43% for Latino, 40% for multiracial.

30% experienced homelessness at some point in their lifetime.

16% reported home ownership, compared to 63% of the U.S. population.

20% participated in the underground economy for income at some point in their lives, including 12% who conducted sex work for income.

Disabled trans people:

24% unemployed.

45% living in poverty.

59% serious psychological distress.

54% attempted suicide in their lifetime.

42% mistreatment by health care providers.

K-12 education:

54% of those who were out or perceived as transgender were verbally harassed.

24% physically attacked.

13% sexually assaulted.

17% faced such severe mistreatment that they left a K–12 school.

Police interaction:

57% of respondents said they would feel uncomfortable asking the police for help.

33% of Black transgender women said during the past year, an officer assumed they were sex workers.

86% of sex workers reported being harassed, attacked, sexually assaulted, or mistreated in some other way by police.

I’ve compiled a list of prior surveys and other research findings: https://wordpress.com/page/lexiecannes.com/4404

2015 NCTE Survey Summary: http://www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/USTS-Executive-Summary-FINAL.PDF

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