We honor the trans community and emphasize the discrimination they face every day. In 2009, a US-based transgender activist named Rachel Crandall marked this day to celebrate and bring light to transgender people and their fight for equality. Learn how you can support the trans community & combat transphobia.
Facts & Statistics on:
Homelessness
- Around 29% of trans adults live in poverty.
- 39% are Black trans adults.
- 48% are Latinx trans adults.
- 35% are Alaska Native, Asian, Native Americans, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander trans adults.
- Only 30% of women’s shelters are willing to house trans women.
Violence
- 54% of trans people have experience some form of intimate partner violence.
- 47% have been sexually assaulted in their lifetime.
- Nearly 1 in 10 trans people were physically assaulted between 2014 and 2015.
- At least 27 trans and gender non-conforming people have been violently killed in 2020 in the US.
Healthcare
- 22% of trans people and 32% of trans people of color have no health insurance coverage.
- 29% of trans adults have been refused healthcare by a doctor or provider because of their gender identity.
Internationally
- 13 countries criminalize and target gender expression under “cross-dressing laws.”
- These include Brunei, Gambia, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malawi, Malaysia, Nigeria, Oman, South Sudan, Tonga, and the UAE.
- 96 UN member countries have laws in place extending legal gender recognition to trans individuals.
- 71 of those countries make it extremely difficult or expensive for individuals to complete the process of establishing their gender recognition legally.
Support & Donate
- The Okra Project: theokraproject.com
- National Center for Transgender Equality: transequality.org
- Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund: transgenderlegal.org
- The Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
Source: hrc.org, americanprogress.org, williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu, ilga.org, transequality.org