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Started by Olivia P, May 29, 2014, 11:56:18 AM
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QuoteTransgender people face many kinds of discrimination. Some are more obvious than others.The transgender community is four times as likely as the general population to have household incomes less than $10,000 per year, according to a report by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. It also is twice as likely to be unemployed. And transgender people face significant discrimination when seeking housing, which helps explain why they're about twice as likely to be homeless as the general population.They also face discrimination on the web.For the transgender community, the web is an important resource for finding trans-friendly doctors, housing, jobs and public restrooms–many things the rest of us take for granted. But web filtering software designed to prevent access to pornography often stops people from accessing websites that with information on a host of other topics, such as breast feeding, safe sex and, yes, transgender issues. It's a subtle–and possibly unintentional–form of discrimination, one that can have a big impact. Web filters are more than a temporary inconvenience for many transgender people who rely on public libraries and internet cafes to access the internet. The problem is even worse in the UK, where all new internet connections are filtered by default at the ISP level.
