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Avy Skolnik, a coordinator with the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, who is transgender himself, said the transgender community is usually left with only anecdotal information about their plight. Skolnik said that while "institutions view statistics as the real evidence," they make those statistics "nearly impossible to capture" by not documenting people as transgender.