A much appreciated -- and very important -- link. Thanks, Bionca.
What's interesting, and quite devastating, is conflating the unemployment rate of transgendered people with the harassment statistic. It means that, for almost all those with employment, they're putting up with abuse and having their rights and privileges trampled, which means that many transgendered individuals are probably suffering weekly, if not daily, gender-related crap, from colleagues, managers, clients and whomever, but are compelled to stay where they are for basic financial reasons; reasons that are virtually insurmountable, thanks to what the other statistics (denial of promotion and poverty rates) suggest.
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