A report from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey conducted by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality, found that transgender people faced double the rate of unemployment of the general population, with 63 percent of the transgender people surveyed reporting they experienced a serious act of discrimination that majorly affected their ability to sustain themselves. These numbers are even worse for trans people of color, especially trans women of color, the deaths of whom have been deemed a “state of emergency.”
Trans women have been saddled with the responsibility of taking on trans-exclusionary feminists for far too long—but it’s not their issue to deal with alone.
Read: It’s Time to End the Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women by Tina Vasquez at BitchMedia.org. Infographic by Michelle Leigh.
people ask where our numeric figures originated, as an attempt to counter our referencing them as support for any number of arguments. We get silenced and ignored constantly, as a result of having “sourceless claims”
and here’s the source, this extremely broad and in-depth study of thousands of transgender and nonbinary people from all over the US and some surrounding land masses
may we never lose this material