Response 4 to Maven
This has everything to do with the demographics of each country. You can see in your figure that trans folk in the USA are distributed by race in the exact pattern as the whole US population — which means 66% of U.S. people are white and 66% of trans people are white. Note that this also means that 34% of trans people are BIPOC — which clearly shows that your equation of trans people and white people is incorrect.
Trans people are mostly poor, because we’re constantly discriminated against in jobs & housing, and many of us were thrown out of our homes by transphobic parents. I have absolutely no idea what you’re smoking when you refer to trans folk as “the corporate donor class” — that’s like referring to battered women or migrant workers as “the corporate donor class.” It is ludicrous and offensive in its sheer ignorance.
The height of white privilege is Jeff Bezos flying his rocket into space. Not the millions of trans people of all races who are barely able to survive in this society.
Caitlyn Jenner is a woman. She is an extreme exception, in that she’s a famous while millionaire. She’s extremely entitled and clueless and the vast majority of trans people despise her. We don’t consider her a ‘leader’ of absolutely anything.
Implying that Martine Rothblatt or Jennifer Pritsker represent the average trans woman is like implying that Oprah Winfrey, Shonda Rhimes, or Beyonce are examples of the average American Black woman.
Many trans women have had to engage in sex work historically because we’re often unable to find work, and because they’re often thrown out of their homes before securing an education.
The protest today at Netflix is led by Ashlee Marie Preston, an opinion leader among trans folk. She’s a Black woman.
It is outrageous the way you continue to bend the narrative to your fictional notions. It’s a clear example of “my mind is made up, don’t confuse me with facts.”
This is my last response.
Health Insurance and Health Care
- One in four (25%) respondents experienced a problem in the past year with their insurance related to being transgender, such as being denied coverage for care related to gender transition or being denied coverage for routine care because they were transgender.
• More than half (55%) of those who sought coverage for transition-related surgery in the past year were denied, and 25% of those who sought coverage for hormones in the past year were denied.
• One-third (33%) of those who saw a health care provider in the past year reported having at least one negative experience related to being transgender, with higher rates for people of color and people with disabilities. This included being refused treatment, verbally harassed, or physically or sexually assaulted, or having to teach the provider about transgender people in order to get appropriate care.
In the past year, 23% of respondents did not see a doctor when they needed to because of fear of being mistreated as a transgender person, and 33% did not see a doctor when needed because they could not afford it.
Psychological Distress and Attempted Suicide
- Thirty-nine percent (39%) of respondents experienced serious psychological distress in the month before completing the survey (based on the Kessler 6 Psychological Distress Scale), compared with only 5% of the U.S. population.
• Forty percent (40%) have attempted suicide in their lifetime, nearly nine times the rate in the U.S. population (4.6%).
• Seven percent (7%) attempted suicide in the past year — nearly twelve times the rate in the U.S. population (0.6%).
Experiences in Schools
- More than three-quarters (77%) of those who were out or perceived as transgender at some point between Kindergarten and Grade 12 (K–12) experienced some form of mistreatment, such as being verbally harassed, prohibited from dressing according to their gender identity, disciplined more harshly, or physically or sexually assaulted because people thought they were transgender.
- Fifty-four percent (54%) of those who were out or perceived as transgender in K–12 were verbally harassed, nearly one-quarter (24%) were physically attacked, and 13% were sexually assaulted in K–12 because of being transgender.
- Seventeen percent (17%) faced such severe mistreatment as a transgender person that they left a K–12 school.
- Nearly one-quarter (24%) of people who were out or perceived as transgender in college or vocational school were verbally, physically, or sexually harassed.
