⹠American Indian and Alaskan Native transgender and gender non-conforming people often live in extreme poverty, with 23 percent reporting a household income of less than $10,000 per year. This compares to the rate of 15 percent for transgender people of all races. The rate is about three times the general American Indian and Alaskan Native population rate (8 percent), and nearly six times the general U.S. population rate (4 percent).
⹠American Indian and Alaskan Native transgender and gender non-conforming people had a very high unemployment rate at 18 percent, well over twice the rate of the general population (7 percent) at the time the survey was fielded.
⹠American Indian and Alaskan Native respondents who attended school expressing a transgender identity or gender non-conformity reported rates of harassment at 86 percent, physical assault at 51 percent and sexual assault at 21 percent in K-12.
âą American Indian and Alaskan Native transgender and gender non-conforming people were affected by HIV in âdevastating numbers:â 3.24 percent reported being HIV positive and an additional 8.53 percent reported that they did not know their status.
⹠Fifty-six percent of American Indian and Alaskan Native transgender respondents reported having attempted suicide compared to 41 percent of all study respondents.
âThese findings underscore the importance of recognizing that Two-Spirit, trans and gender non-conforming American Indians and Alaskan Natives are a significant and too-often-marginalized part of LGBT communities, and communities that face substantial and sometimes unique challenges,â said NCTE executive director Mara Keisling. âThis research contributes to our long-held belief that policy makers must understand and act on the deep disparities that exist within people of color communities.â
It comes as no surprise that transgender, Two Spirit, and gender nonconforming Natives are subject to some of the worst discrimination of any racial group among trans* people, weâre at the intersection of two massively oppressed groups in this country: Native Americans and Trans People of Color. According to the Department of Justice, 1 in 10 Native Americans has been a victim of a violent crime, double the rate of Black Americans (5 in 100), two-and-a-half times the White population, and four-and-a-half times higher than the Asian American population. They are also found to be the most likely to have been assaulted by a member of another race: 70% of violence against Natives is by non-natives.
There needs to be a serious effort to look beyond the typical (white cis) LGBT issues and to really focus on violence against queer and trans* people of color in general, and queer, trans*, Two Spirit, and gender nonconforming Natives specifically.
This country makes me sick right now.
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