Nearly 40% of transgender people have been harassed or bullied website because of their gender identity, according to statistics from the U.S. Transgender Survey, which was released yesterday. Additionally, 80% of adult respondents claimed to have experienced harassment both offline and online while attending college.
These numbers are regular with a 2023 study from UCLA’s Williams Institute, which also found that 42% of transgender respondents admitted to trying suicide and that the majority of them had “accessed proper mental healthcare.”
Over 90,000 trans people age 16 or older participated in the study, which was conducted in 2022. The National Center for Transgender Equality conducted it, and it contained up to 600 concerns.
According to the Center’s Early Insights Report, 39% of respondents said they had been harassed online in the previous year, and 80% claimed to have experienced “verbal harassment, physical attacks, online bullying,” “misgendering,” and/or being denied the right to dress or use the restroom while attending school.
Republicans have passed costs at the condition level aimed at outing trans kids and banning them from using the restroom that best corresponds with their gender identity, making the topic of learners transitioning while in school one that is often attacked by Republicans. Cyberbullying, which may come from their peers and also whole social media platforms, can also affect trans individuals.
Some people have compared the study’s data to that of the March 2023 KFF/Washington Post Trans review after the Early Insights survey was published.
515 respondents responded to the KFF/Washington Post survey, and 78% of them said “transitioning helped them.”
94% of trans people surveyed by the Center’s much larger survey reported feeling happier about their lives now that they had transitioned.
Anti-trans advertising journalist Evan Urquhart tweeted about the research and examined their not-so-different results.
They wrote, “We have reason to believe that transgender life is characterized by higher levels of pain and discrimination, as well as by small regret and higher satisfaction with the choice to transition.” “That’s steady across these two reports as well as almost all other trans people reports.”
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Published for the first time on February 8, 2024, at 2:53 PMCST.
Crimmins, Tricia
Crimmins, Tricia is the IRL staff writer at the Daily Dot. She is also a New York-based comedian and an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Previously, she has written for Mashable, Complex Networks, and Moment magazine. She can be found on Twitter at @TriciaCrimmins.
