In 2001, Kerith Conron was working on LGBT issues in Boston’s health department. She discovered that homeless transgender people were sleeping on benches because the shelters, which were segregated by gender, didn’t know what to do with them. As a result, transgender people weren’t included in the city’s assessment of who needed shelter. Conron, now a research scientist at the Fenway Institute, a research center specializing in LGBT health, says going uncounted means being overlooked, and if you’re overlooked, you’re at greater risk of being underserved...But counting the transgender population nationally remains a steep challenge. The U.S. Census Bureau doesn’t ask who is transgender, nor do the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But even if they did, the responses might not be reliable because some people are afraid to answer, while others disagree on what transgender even means. If you see someone cite a statistic about transgender people in the United States, you’re seeing a rough estimate at best. - FiveThirtyEight What do you think?
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 23:40:17 +0000
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