INJUSTICE AT EVERY TURN: A LOOK AT LATINO/A RESPONDENTS IN THE NATIONAL TRANSGENDER DISCRIMINATION SURVEYhttp://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Transgender-Latinos-Report-English.pdfhttp://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Transgender-Latinos-Report-Spanish.pdfThe National Transgender Discrimination Survey [NTDS] measured transgender people's experiences of discrimination in the U.S.i The survey results showed that transgender people face bias that affects all areas of life. However, one of the most important findings was that the combination of anti-transgender bias with structural and individual racism meant that transgender people of color experience particularly devastating levels of discrimination. Among them, Latina and Latino transgender people often reported particularly high levels of discrimination. In response, the League of United Latin American Citizens has partnered with the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, who collected the data through the NTDS, to offer this report on discrimination against Latino/a transgender people.
The information in this report is based on the experiences of the 402 respondents who were Latino/a or Latino/a multiracial.ii Of the Latino/a respondents, 332 were U.S. citizens and 56 were non-citizens. When this report uses the phrase, "due to bias," it refers to the questions on the survey that asked about respondents' experiences of anti-transgender bias, but the results also show the complex interactions of that bias with race, socio-economic status, and immigration status.
