While the right wing prattles on about a trans-inclusive ENDA as if it were a petty potty squabble, I decided to unveil some of the early findings on trans people’s experiences on the job from a recent survey for activists to use in building for an ENDA fight.
The statistics on transgender people’s lives are stunning. According to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, 97 percent have experienced mistreatment, harassment or discrimination on the job.
Of those surveyed, 47 percent were denied a job, a promotion or were fired because of their gender identity. Despite higher levels of education than the population at large, 15 percent of transgender people earn less than $10,000 per year, more than twice the national average. Twenty-seven percent reported incomes of $20,000 or less. Hostile employers forced 32 percent to present themselves in the wrong gender in order to keep their jobs. While 62 percent of the overall population has access to health care at work, only 40 percent of transgender people do.
Fight for a trans-inclusive ENDA Now. You can start by joining with other LGBT activists Saturday, May 1 to march on May Day in solidarity with immigrants and for LGBT workplace rights.
In solidarity-Sherry Wolf
yep…welcome to our reality it sucks but thats what drives me on despite all the BS that gets shoveled our way
How about intersex inclusion in ENDA and Equality Across America?
Please explain why intersex is excluded.
Thanks for your note.
I’m all for the full liberation of intersex people and all other sexual minorities, which is why I’ve been writing about intersexuality since my book, Sexuality and Socialism, radio interviews about intersex and the columns in the Nation about Caster Semenya. It certainly isn’t the case that EAA is excluding anyone, it’s that rather than just adding a letter to the end of a string of letters, we need to raise the issues and politics and solidarity needed to to have a broad movement embrace intersex people and for intersex people to feel comfortable about coming out.
This has been happening at the conferences I’ve attended of EAA, what else do you propose?-Sherry