In the HRC Foundation’s 2012 survey of LGBTQ youth, about 10 percent of respondents
identified themselves either as “transgender” or as “other gender,” and
wrote in identities like “genderqueer,” “gender-fluid” or “androgynous.” This
suggests that a larger portion of this generation’s youth are identifying
somewhere on the broad transgender spectrum.
Anti-transgender violence– At least 13 transgender women were murdered in 2014, and 2015
is on track to see even higher numbers. These women were stabbed, shot, strangled, and burned;
killed violently by intimate partners or strangers. According to the
2013 National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) report on hate
violence against lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and HIV-affected
(LGBTQH) communities, 72 percent of the victims of LGBTQ or HIV-motivated hate
violence homicides in 2013 were transgender women, and 67 percent were
transgender women of color
2017 Press Release 325 Trans
and gender-diverse people reported murdered in the 2017
2,609 reported cases in 71
countries worldwide in 9 years.
Sex- Your assigned gender at birth and/or the gender of
your reproductive organs
Gender- Where you feel that you personally fall on the
spectrum between male and female. Commonly people identify as male or female,
but some fall in the middle or move throughout the spectrum.
Transgender-
When you identify with a gender different than that you were assigned at birth
Genderfluid-
Moving between genders or having a fluctuating gender identity
Other documentaries
- The making of me (channel 4)
- Teenage and trans (channel 4)
- Born in the wrong body (channel 4)
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