While the reports on the NTDS included details on Black, Latin@, and Asian respondents specifically, they did not include one on American Indians. So I’ve gone through the full report and made my own.
Of the total 6404 respondents, 368 (6%) marked American Indian as a race (roughly the same amount as marked Black); however, only 75 (1%) marked only American Indian. The report places all people who responded with more than one race in the category of “multiracial,” with no indication of how many of these are Native people. There is no indication as to how many people gave a tribal affiliation, or any demographic info at all about the nearly 300 people who marked American Indian in conjunction with another race.
I suspect that political issues like blood quantum may make Natives more likely to mark multiple races, yet despite this they continue to be subject to a very particular kind of discrimination and colonization. The way the survey dealt with Native respondents seems extremely problematic in light of this. Nonetheless, all numbers recorded in the survey refer to the 75 people who marked only American Indian as their race. As a result of the low sample size, the numbers should be treated cautiously. I hope that in the future someone will do a more detailed focus on Native transgender people.
- 36% of Native trans people reported losing their job due to being transgender. The unemployment rate for Native trans people is 24% (as opposed to 14% in the sample for all races and 7% in the general population).
- 12% transgender Natives reported being physically harassed by the police (the second highest rate for any race). This is twice the rate for respondents of all races.
- 38% of transgender Natives report physical harassment at school. 24% report sexual harassment, the highest of any race and twice the rate of all transgender respondents.
- 36% of Native trans people (twice the overall rate) reported having been refused medical care.
- 7.04% of trans Natives reported being HIV+ (versus .06% for all races).
- Over half of Native trans people (56%) have attempted suicide (the highest rate of any race, versus 41% overall, and 1.6% of the general US population)
- 45% of transgender Native people reported violence by a family member because of being transgender, over twice the overall average of 19%. Three-fourths reported loss of close friendships because of their gender identity.
- Homelessness is much higher among Native trans people than trans people of all races. 8% reported current homelessness (versus 1.7% overall). 33% became homeless because of discrimination or family rejection (versus 19% overall), and 30% reported eviction because of being transgender (11% overall). Nearly half (47%) of Native trans people reported being denied housing, almost 2.5 times the overall rate.
- Twice as many Native trans people (27%) as trans people of all races reported having sex with someone in exchange for having a place to stay.
- American Indians were the least likely of any race to have changed their gender on their drivers license (37%) and most likely to report changes to their drivers license being denied (16%).
- 30% of transgender Natives reported having been incarcerated, twice the overall rate.
While I have tried to give a glimpse of the realities of trans Natives along the lines of the details of Black, Latin@, and Asian respondents created by the Task Force, I’m hindered by having only the data presented in their report. For instance, it appears that in the reports on individual races, they have included multiracial respondents. I would strongly urge the Task Force to take another look at the American Indian data they have and to create a similar detail for Native trans people, especially considering the data suggesting that transgender Natives have particular experiences that are worth examining on their own terms.
Transgender American Indians in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey
(TRIGGER WARNING: language, transphobic language, homophobic language, violence against lgbtq persons)
(TW: language, transphobic language, homophobic language, violence against lgbtq persons)
This attack occurred in broad daylight, in Greenwich Village in New York City. No, New York is not some magical utopia where everyone can just “be themselves.”
Do yourselves a favor, and avoid the comment section to avoid triggering language.
Hello. This is important, please read.
I don’t really know how to word this, but I’d like to pass on an important message.
Tumblr user communismkills
has made a very offensive post about my friend Jason.
In her words: “Less than a year after getting a Tumblr, my extremely girly friend from middle school decided she was a boy.”
She then posted an old and a current picture of Jason, comparing them.
She is now misgendering him and outing his birth name.
That is not an okay thing to do at all.
Here is the post: click.
This is just outrageous to me. Please report her tumblr and her Facebook account.
I’d just like to warn everyone about this person, and try to stop them before they can do even worse shit.
Reblog, signal boost and pass it on. For the sake of my friend and for the sake of any other trans* people she might get her claws on.
Thanks.
I’m Sick To My Stomach (TW: Murder of trans* women of color, transmisogyny)
because another black trans* woman is dead three blocks from where Paige Clay was found murdered in April and major Chicago news outlets won’t even give her the basic respect of using her chosen name.
Because our young black girls are dying at an alarming rate and even the queer community doesn’t want to talk about it
Because my own people (queer people and black people) are throwing these women into the streets and their blood is running there now
Because my black and brown trans* sisters are being murdered in the streets and the cis white gay rights movement is worried about how soon we can get married (which is important) but ignores the need for trans* folks to have housing options when they’re kicked out of their homes, which is far too often
Because gay men are still tossing around the t-slur that these women probably heard as they died
And it’s disgusting. Because nobody cares. The queer community will not speak of these women, and neither will the black community. I used to think it would take a rash of murders to wake people up, but I don’t know anymore. Because that rash is here. Tiffany Gooden was not the first. And I’m so afraid she won’t be the last. It kills me to think that my sisters are dying like this. Brown and queer and beautiful and with nobody to empower them. It absolutely kills me.
Wait… what?: WARNING: TUMBLR USER STARKHOLME-SYNDROME WILL OUT YOU
TW: TRANSPHOBIA, APOLOGISM, RACISM, OUTING
starkholme-syndrome, or known to several of my friends as cas, is a racist trans*-hate apologist who is planning onoutingmy close friend who is transgender to their mom.
he is unapologetic about his…
his URL has been changed to jam-moriar-tea
^^^ really important
"Cis" is still hate-speech
“Cis” is STILL hate-speech. Don’t use it.
There is no such thing as a “cis woman”. There is certainly no such thing as a woman with “cis priviledge”.
The fact that mentally-ill people with severe Gender Identity Disorder call themselves “trans” is no reason to smack the label “cis” on people free of Gender Identity Disorder .
In fact, it’s utterly abusive, sick crap to lay a big guilt trip on people JUST because they happen to be free of a particular, severe mental illness.
Do we have a term for people who don’t have an illness? Yes, we do:
HEALTHY. Or NORMAL.
I am a healthy, normal woman. That comes with no inherent privilege, because it is the natural state of human beings to NOT have severe Gender Identity Disorder.
OH MY GOOODDDDDD
OP, shut the fuck up.
You don’t know what you’re talking about.
i hate redfems i hate radfems i hate radfems
‟bet that strawberry banana-fo-fanna clip never jamma. 