Survey: Trans people face much higher rate of job discrimination

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Survey: Trans people face much higher rate of job discrimination
Dallas Voice
By Renee Baker
11 February, 2010


http://www.dallasvoice.com/artman/publish/article_12468.php


The National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force have jointly released preliminary results from the largest transgender survey ever completed, showing what most people have assumed as true — that trans people face discrimination in employment at a much higher rate that other minority groups.

The survey of 6,450 transgender people across the United States was taken with the impetus to empirically determine and document the marginalization of transgender lives.

Mara Keisling, executive director of the NCTE, stated the survey was constructed "from the point of view of discrimination and its prevalence." She said that previous surveys were much smaller in size or merely anecdotal in nature.