According to statistics from the U.S. Transgender Survey released this month, North Carolina is one of the bottom ten states where trans people report leaving because state regulations target them for unfair care.
Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia are the other state.
According to Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, who conducted the fresh study, “our area has been facing exceptional and continuous attacks across the country.” “We fought over 500 costs targeting the LGBTQI+ group in 2023, of which over 450 specifically targeted trans people,” according to the report.
In a press conference on Tuesday, Heng-Lehtinen stated that “this time, we’re now tracking over 300 pieces of anti-trans legislation.” “And it’s only the beginning of February.”
According to the survey, nearly half of respondents (47%) have considered moving as a result of legislation or laws that target transgender people. Respondents really reported leaving locations in the top ten list of state. The South, the area with the most states that have passed for rules, made up just over 40% of respondents.
The increase in anti-transgender policy has been accompanied by a surge in crime against trans people across the country. Tools for understanding the real lives and experiences of trans people are priceless in that setting, according to Heng- Lehtinen.
The National Center for Transgender Equality’s fresh study, which was carried out at the end of 2022, is the biggest one of its kind in the United States. In all fifty states, including the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American military bases abroad, about 92, 000 transgender respondents with ages 16 and older shared their opinions.
There were 27,715 respondents to the team’s most recent national study, which was conducted in 2015.
According to Heng-Lehtinen, the novel information will come to define the field of transgender rights advocacy for years to come.
According to Heng-Lehtinen, trans people may be more apparent than ever. However, there is still “a rainfall of details” regarding their exact needs and experiences.
Who among the trans population in the United States
The 2022 review data provide a more accurate picture of how responders define their own gender identities because there are more than three times as many interviewees as there were in the 2015 study.
38 percent of respondents said they didn’t identify as either male or female and that they were nonbinary. 8% of those non binary individuals claimed to have been given a gender at birth, while 30% of respondents said they were.
Transgender women made up the next-largest group, with 35% of the population, followed by men, at 25%. Only 2% of transsexuals, the majority of whom identify with the female they were given at birth, were employed.
Five percent of respondents said they were “born with a variant in natural gender characteristics or had an inter-examination variation or Change of Gender Development.”
Information on female transition—and false data
North Carolina joined a group of states next season whose Democratic congressional majorities enacted legislation aimed at transgender people, particularly young people. Despite the vehement criticism of some trans people, their families, doctors, and every significant medical and psychological connection, those laws were passed despite the fact that they limit everything, including the access to school sports teams, health care for transgenders, as well as how they can discuss or refer to themselves in public schools.
Heng- Lehtinen said, “At best, we’re working in a pump of information.” At worst, we’re dealing with the perilous false information that anti-trans fanatics are spreading.
When the GOP bulk in the General Assembly overthrew Governor, House Bill 808 was passed. The filibuster of Roy Cooper in August. It forbids all gender-affirming medical care for children under 18, regardless of their doctor’s advice or their parents ‘consent, from puberty blockers and hormone therapy to various surgeries.
Additionally, the law forbids the direct or indirect use of Medicaid funds and state funds for such treatment. Under the new law, doctors who provide such care could face legal penalties and drop their clinical licenses.
Democratic lawmakers emphasized the experiences of “detransitioners” during the bill’s argument. These are people who claim to have identified as transgender and received sex transition but no longer recognize in that way. These individuals, who have been attending congressional hearings across the nation to advocate for stringent laws, express regret over the change and anticipate that others, particularly young people, will do the same. Although opponents of limiting gender transition claimed that these activities were typical, the new survey’s data reveal a very different reality.
Ninety-nine percent of survey respondents said they were “a lot more happy” with their lives since the female transition, and fifteen percent said a little more so. Three out of every three respondents said they were neither more nor less pleased, with 1% expressing “a little less satisfaction” and 2% stating “doing more than happy.”
Even higher levels of satisfaction were reported by those for whom medical procedures were a part of their transition, with 88% stating that they were “a lot more satisfied” with their lives following gender-affirming surgery. After such surgeries, another 9% said they were “a little more satisfied.”
84% of those for whom hormone therapy was a part of their transition said they were “a lot more satisfied” with their lives, while 14% claimed to be “barely more content.”
Harassment and unfair care
The survey data from 2022 also offers a look at the encounters of transgender people who are denied equitable treatment and support, as well as their experiences with intimidation, threats, and crime.
Among the results:
- In the previous 12 times, 4% of respondents reported being denied entry to a room at work, school, or in public places.
- When using or accessing a room, 6% of respondents reported being orally harassed, actually attacked, or having unwanted sexual contact.
- In the previous 12 months, nearly one in ten (9%) respondents reported being denied equal treatment or service due to their gender identity or expression.
- Nearly one-third (30%) of respondents said they had experienced verbal harassment in the previous 12 months due to their gender identity or expression.
- More than one-third of respondents (39%) said they had experienced harassment online in the previous 12 months as a result of their gender identity or expression.
- Three percent (%) of respondents said they had experienced physical assault in the previous 12 months as a result of their gender identity or expression.
According to Heng-Lehtinen, the new information should be an essential tool for research, plan, and training. That’s important because Gay people (and transgender people in particular) now face a political environment that has significantly changed since 2015 and is much more angry.
According to Heng-Lehtinen, “This data is giving us a rich and extensive texture of trans Americans ‘daily experiences.” That kind of information has never been available to us before. Since the shift in the political environment, this study is the first one we have conducted and the only one of its type.
