AUSTIN (KXAN)- The 2022 U.S. Trans Survey (USTS) research team released a report of its preliminary findings on Wednesday. With over 92,000 respondents, this survey represents the largest single sampling of transgender people ever.
The survey is a follow-up to the 2015 National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) survey, which received close to 28,000 responses. The 2022 review even allowed messages from 16 and 17-year-olds.
Josie Caballero, the chairman of the USTS for NCTE, spoke with KXAN about the study’s introduction in 2022.
According to Caballero in 2022, “it fills in some of the significant research gaps about transgender people and offers a crucial resource for researchers, policymakers, and activists seeking to better understand the needs of Trans people.”
94% of respondents said they were more satisfied with life after gender transitioning, and 3% reported decreased satisfaction, according to preliminary survey results from 2022.98% of transgender people receiving hormone replacement therapy (HRT) reported having a better quality of life, and 97% of those who had undergone transition-related surgery.
On Friday, KXAN spoke with Caballero about the preliminary findings.
According to Caballero, “I think that [life pleasure] is probably the most significant finding because it merely confirms the fact that transitory care enhances trans life.” “We hope for in-depth study to increase our understanding of the study gaps we have encountered.”
Transgender people report having negative experience in common life despite having higher living happiness:
- 48% of patients reported having a bad experience or had their health care provider refuse them service.
- 30% of respondents said they had experienced homelessness, and 34% reported experiencing poverty (U.S. average 11.5%).
- 18% of Americans were unemployed (U.S. average 3.7%), and 11 % said they had lost a job because of coming out, and,
- 60% of respondents who were 16 and 17 years old claimed that because of their gender identity, teachers, peers, and school personnel had mistreated them.
When people feel accepted and encouraged to become themselves, it saves life and raises the quality of life.
Director of the U.S. Trans Survey Josie Caballero
According to the report, Texas was one of ten claims that interviewees reported leaving as a result of state laws that targeted them.
According to Caballero, “Trans people are very many distributed across the country exactly like the real population of the National community.” “This was before 2023 when we saw 500+ pieces of legislation targeting transgender and gay individuals across the nation, and we are now tracking over 300 costs just this time.” Therefore, we can only conclude that the issue is getting worse and that more people are actually migrating.
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Afterwards this year, the study group plans to release a more thorough report and state-specific reports.
According to Caballero, “we hope that with the additional data, researchers will be able to really delve deeper and find better questions to ask.” “We also hope that our information set will be a better educational resource for politicians… that they can identify this data as challenging evidence to show the advantages and disadvantages that transgender people face in the United States.”
