New Report Shows Trans* People Experience Huge Gaps in Health Care Access

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New Report Shows Trans* People Experience Huge Gaps in Health Care Access
Feministe
by Cara
25 October, 2010


http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2010/10/25/new-report-shows-trans-people-experience-huge-gaps-in-health-care-access/


Earlier this month, the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force released the National Transgender Discrimination Survey Report on Health and Health Care (pdf). Reliable statistics on trans* people are notoriously difficult to come by, and among those that exist, many are outdated and/or derived from very small sample sizes. This U.S. survey included over 6,400 trans women, trans men, and people imperfectly grouped together as "gender non-conforming," from all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. That makes it really big news, and a really important resource for information.