Transgender People and Bullying
Written by Lisa Harney
October 8th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=3231Bullying's been in the news rather frequently recently, with the nine suicides of people who are clearly presented as cis gay men, and how the bullying plus the consequent suicides are a real problem, but there has been an elephant in the room while this conversation has gone on:
That is, we rarely hear about trans teens who are bullied and attempt or commit suicide. There have been a few, but there hasn't been much talk about it. The findings from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey were just released, with some rather harrowing numbers:
"From our experience working with transgender people, we had prepared ourselves for high rates of suicide attempts, but we didn't expect anything like this," says Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality.
