SURVEY: 40% OF TRANS AMERICANS CONSIDER MOVING
<p>#NEWS: Largest survey of transgender people in the US reveals key insights at a time when trans rights are under attack</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>By Chandelis Duster, CNN</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Results from the largest survey of transgender people in the United States were released Wednesday, revealing key insights into their lives and experiences at a time when trans rights have increasingly come under attack. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The 2022 US Transgender Survey Early Insights report, conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality, polled an “unprecedented” 92,329 binary and nonbinary transgender people ages 16 and older living in the US, its territories or military bases, according to the report.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Respondents were surveyed on issues including their family life, health care, employment, education, housing and public accommodation. While many transgender people surveyed who have transitioned said they were satisfied with their lives, the report also noted transgender people continue to face disparities and discrimination across the country. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, executive director of NCTE, said there should be state and federal laws to ensure that everyone -- including transgender people -- is treated fairly. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“No one should ever face discrimination in employment, housing, health care, education, and other areas of life just because of who they are,” Heng-Lehtinen said in a statement.?“Transgender people are here to stay, and we are proud of who we are.” </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Life after transitioning </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The survey found the majority of people who transitioned genders said they were satisfied with their lives. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Ninety-four percent of respondents who lived at least some of the time in a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth reported being “a lot more satisfied” or “a little more satisfied” with their life, with 79% expressing the highest level of satisfaction, according to the report. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Only three percent of people surveyed indicated they were “a little less satisfied” (1%) or “a lot less satisfied” (2%), the report found.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>What’s more, “nearly all” respondents who said they were receiving hormone treatment at the time of the survey – 98% -- said receiving hormones for their gender identity/transition increased satisfaction with their life.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Eighty-four percent of respondents said they were “a lot more satisfied” while receiving hormone treatment and 14% of respondents said they were “a little more satisfied.” Less than 1% of people surveyed said receiving the hormones made them less satisfied with their lives.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Discrimination and mistreatment </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The report’s findings come as multiple states have passed laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care. Forty percent of people surveyed said they considered moving because they experienced discrimination or unequal treatment where they were living, and 10% said they had already moved because of discrimination. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Respondents also reported moving from states like Florida, Virginia, Texas, and North Carolina because of laws targeting transgender people for unequal treatment. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>More than a third (39%) of respondents said they were harassed online because of their gender expression or identity in the previous 12 months, and 30% reported being verbally harassed during the same time frame. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The report also revealed findings that suggest the ongoing culture war over transgender rights has impacted students. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Nearly 60% of respondents ages 16 to 17 who are out or perceived as transgender in grades K-12 said they experienced mistreatment or a negative experience, including “verbal harassment, physical attacks, online bullying, being denied the ability to dress according to their gender identity/expression, teachers or staff refusing to use chosen name or pronouns, or being denied the use of restrooms or locker rooms matching their gender identity.” </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>A majority of respondents of all ages, 62%, also said they were “very uncomfortable” or “somewhat uncomfortable” asking police for help when needed because of their gender expression or identity. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p> Health and safety </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>When asked about their health care experiences, nearly half of respondents, 48%, who had seen a provider in the past 12 months said they had at least one negative experience because they were transgender, according to the report. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Some of those experiences reported included, “being refused health care, being misgendered, having a provider use harsh or abusive language when treating them, or having a provider be physically rough or abusive when treating them.” </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Nearly a quarter of respondents said they avoided seeing a doctor in the previous year when they needed to out of fear of mistreatment, while 28% said they did not go to the doctor during that timeframe because of cost.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The report also found that the unemployment rate among respondents was nearly five times the national average --18%.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The 2022 US Trans Survey is a follow up to the 2015 US Trans Survey, which included more than 27,700 respondents across the US, its territories and its military bases.? The 2022 survey was conducted online in Spanish and English by the NCTE in conjunction with the Black Trans Advocacy Coalition, National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, and TransLatin@ Coalition. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Participants were surveyed from October 19 through December 5, 2022, and the majority of respondents – 84,170 – were ages 18 and older.? </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>CNN’s Scottie Andrew contributed to this report. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/health/trangender-survey-harassment-poverty.html</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Many Transgender Americans Face Stigma and Financial Hardship, Survey Finds</p>\n<p>The survey reflects the life experiences of more than 92,000 transgender and nonbinary Americans.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Transgender and nonbinary Americans experience stark rates of unemployment and harassment, according to the largest survey of their life experiences to date. The data reflect a longstanding pattern of discrimination at a time when states across the country have passed laws restricting their health care, bathroom access and participation in sports.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The findings come from the U.S. Transgender Survey, which many researchers and policymakers have relied on since a version of it debuted in 2011. The National Center for Transgender Equality, an advocacy group, carried out the latest iteration of the survey in late 2022, garnering responses from more than 92,000 transgender and nonbinary Americans, age 16 and up, from every state in the country.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The group released a preliminary analysis of responses to the survey’s 600 questions on Wednesday, with the full report expected later this year.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The survey was not given to a random sample of transgender people, so it cannot be interpreted as representative of the transgender population as a whole. It also skewed young, with 43 percent of respondents ages 18 to 24.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>SKIP ADVERTISEMENT</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Still, there were more than three times as many respondents as there were in 2015, the last time the survey was conducted, when 28,000 people participated.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The Anti-Trans Push in America</p>\n<p>Utah: Utah will prohibit transgender people from using bathrooms in public schools and government-owned buildings that align with their gender identity, after Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill that imposed the restrictions.</p>\n<p>Ohio: The Republican-controlled state legislature overrode Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a bill that would bar gender-affirming care for minors, clearing the way for the ban to take effect.</p>\n<p>Idaho: A federal judge temporarily blocked the enforcement of a state law that bans gender transition care for minors and threatens medical professionals with a felony conviction if they provide such care.</p>\n<p>Tennessee: Transgender youth and their families asked the Supreme Court to block the state’s ban on transition care for minors, petitioning the court to intervene for the first time on the issue.</p>\n<p>“You don’t see data sets like this,” Sandy James, an attorney and the lead researcher of the new survey, said in a press briefing. “Tens of thousands of trans people knew that it was imperative that they make their voices heard.”</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Many respondents reported financial challenges. Eighteen percent of survey respondents said they were unemployed, much higher than the national rate, and one-third said they had experienced homelessness at some point in their lives. More than one-quarter reported not seeing a doctor when they needed to in the previous year because of high costs.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Nearly one-third of survey respondents said they had been verbally harassed in the previous year, and three percent of respondents said they were physically attacked in the last year because of their gender identity.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>But they also reported positive experiences. An overwhelming majority of respondents — nearly 94 percent — said they were more satisfied with their lives since transitioning. Among those receiving hormones, 98 percent said the treatments had made them more satisfied with life.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Editors’ Picks</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Do You Respect ‘Curb’?</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>What’s Behind This $10 Chicken Over Rice? An $18,000 Permit.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>If I Read a Vintage Dr. Seuss to My Son, Do I Skip the Racist Part?</p>\n<p>SKIP ADVERTISEMENT</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>SKIP ADVERTISEMENT</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Since the 2015 survey, state legislatures have grown considerably more hostile toward L.G.B.T.Q. people, with restrictions on health care for minors and adults, library books, bathroom access, sports participation in schools and gender identification on legal documents. State legislatures are now considering nearly 400 such bills, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Nearly half of the 2022 survey respondents said that they had considered moving in the previous year because of restrictive bills passed or introduced in their state, and 5 percent said they had moved. Forty-four percent reported serious psychological distress in the previous 30 days.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The results seem largely in keeping with the findings from 2015, although the group has not yet compared the data in detail, Dr. James said.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“A steady condition, environment, has been created in which people are not able to thrive,” Dr. James said. “And trans people are trying to move through their lives, as anyone else in the United States wants to do.”</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The 2022 survey was the first to include respondents ages 16 and 17, and they comprised more than 8,000 of the total respondents. Adolescents were excluded from some of the preliminary report’s other analyses, such as those related to their experiences with medical treatments, but they will be included in the report published later this year.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Sixty percent of teenagers reported mistreatment at school, including verbal harassment, physical violence and online bullying, as well as being barred from using their chosen names, pronouns or the bathroom matching their gender identity. Minors were also more likely than adults to report having family members who were not supportive of their gender identity, and 5 percent said that family members had been violent toward them because they were transgender.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>File</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--VO SCRIPT</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--TAG</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>LGBTQ+ LGBT TRANS TRANSGENDER NONBINARY SURVEY</p>