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"The largest survey of transgender Americans ever conducted has found trans
people continue to suffer discrimination, harassment and even violence at work,
in medicine and at school – but that people who transition have much higher
satisfaction in life, and many have supportive families.
This is the first report to document transgender experiences en masse in eight
years, and comes amid sustained political attacks on trans rights from
conservatives.
“There’s still a drought of information available to lawmakers, the media and
advocates regarding our experiences and our needs,” Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen,
executive director of the National Coalition for Transgender Equality (NCTE),
said, according to
NBC News.
“At best, we’re working in a vacuum of information. At worst, we’re combating
dangerous misinformation being spread by anti-trans extremists,” he continued.
“Without question, the misinformation and lack of understanding is underpinning
these escalating legislative attacks against our community.”
The report, called the
2022 US Trans Survey, presents an early look at
findings from a survey of more than 92,000 people who identify as binary or
nonbinary transgender adults. It is the first such report since the NCTE
produced a survey of more than 28,000 individuals in 2015. Individuals were
asked a variety of more than 600 possible questions. No respondent received all
questions.
Importantly, the transgender survey is large but is not random. Although
surveyors weighted the responses to try to account for biases, people who took
the survey might still be unrepresentative of transgender people living in the
US as a whole.
The report found that 94% of transgender individuals who live at least part of
the time in a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth – in
other words, who “transitioned” – were either “a lot” (79%) or “a little more
satisfied” (15%) with their lives. Nearly 98% of respondents were receiving
some kind of hormone replacement therapy, which made them “a lot” (84%) or “a
little” (14%) more satisfied with their lives."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
