Someone Tell Me That I'll Live: On Murder, Media, and Being a Trans Woman in 2015

Kai Cheng Thom FEB 28, 2015

http://www.xojane.com/issues/someone-tell-me-that-ill-live-murdered-trans-women-2015?utm_source=FBPAGE&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=Issues

When I was 19, I read an article in Guernica magazine stating that the average life span of a transgender person is 23 years old. The article confirmed what I had already known for about a decade: I was doomed to a nasty, short, and miserable life. I was going to be poor, maybe homeless, definitely unemployable. I was going to be subjected to emotional and sexual violence (and in fact, I already had been), and then I was going to die, probably brutally murdered. They would print the wrong name on my grave. You know, the good old transgender story...........

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Interesting article, not sure if I posted in right category

Edited to fit news posting guidelines

One of the lines early in that article really hit home, the thought/worry that when i die the wrong name will be on my tombstone.
For some reason, as I saw 40 approaching on the horizon this was one of the thoughts that dominated my mind, I don't know why it felt so  important to prevent this from occurring, it's not as if I'll be around to care but it was one of the very strong factors that pushed me over the edge

I'm troubled by the 23 year figure. There is no attribution in the Guernica article, and I don't know how they could possibly know this. To my knowledge there are basically no longitudinal studies that follow trans people through their lifetimes. Heck we don't even know how many there are.

This strikes me as one of the 82% of statistics that are totally made up.

I read half truth in what statics say due to being weighted based on old studies or assumptions based on a flawed societies education.

Hard getting good data when how many places are there masses of LGBTQ in one place and willing to give truths