The groundhog survey
Transmissions
Published 02/10/2011
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
http://www.ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=transmissions&article=157At this year's Creating Change conference, a new report came out from the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, which hosted the confab. The report, titled "Injustice at Every Turn," includes responses from nearly 6,500 people. A press release touts it as, "the first large-scale national study of discrimination against transgender and gender non-conforming Americans, and paints a more complete picture than any prior research to date."
What did this study tell us? Among other things, we learned that 41 percent of those who participated has attempted suicide, compared to a mere 16 percent of the general population.
Survey participants were twice as likely to be unemployed when compared to the general population. Half had faced harassment in the workplace, and one in four had their employment terminated due to their gender expression or identity.
