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Black Transpeople's Burden-The NBJC Report On The NTDS Findings

Started by Natasha, August 08, 2011, 05:40:51 PM

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August 08, 2011, 05:40:51 PM
Black Transpeople's Burden-The NBJC Report On The NTDS Findings

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/08/black-transpeoples-burden-nbjc-report.html
8/8/11
Monica Roberts

As I've talked about over the last five years on TransGriot, the way a gender transition is experienced for African descended transpeople is vastly different from the way our white counterparts do.

The National Black Justice Coalition recently sent me a copy of the report they compiled based on the  recently released National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS).  Of the 6,456 people who completed the survey that the data was based on, 381 of them were Black or Black multiracial.
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