Transgender Ridicule: Models to 'Saturday Night Live' Sketches
First Survey of 6,450 Transgender Americans Shows More Visibility, But Widespread Discrimination
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
Feb. 1, 2011
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/model-lea-saturday-night-live-sketch-underscore-transgender/story?id=12804701Smith, 28, was born a woman, but was in the process of transitioning to a man. He worked at a coffee shop in Wisconsin, where his boss, he said, was not sympathetic.
"He called me he-she and other inappropriate things in front of my co-workers and customers," said Smith. "He'd yell it across the coffee shop. It got so bad he got physically violent," he said. "He shoved me into a refrigerator."
A first-ever report that will be made public this week paints a bleak picture of life as a transgender person in the United States.
