Christmas!

I guess my last post could be considered a bit of a Debbie Downer 😞. But being transgender can be really truly dangerous.

We just attended the TGirl Nights Christmas party at our favorite LGBT club. They haven't posted the pictures yet, but here are some that we took.

We arrived about 8:30, and there was a drag show happening before the start of the Christmas party. It ran a little late as those things tend to do. But we did get great seats off to the side of the stage/dance floor. We ordered some appetizers and enjoyed the show.

I didn't take any pictures during the actual drag show, but here are some I took before people filled back in for the TGirl Christmas party.

 Yes there are TGirl GoGo dancers.







The dance floor and stage - it got much more crowded as the night went on.

This was right after they cleared the stage, a gentleman and a Transwoman hit the dance floor to have some fun.

And boy did they!

* No, there was no dropping of the pants or zipper, it was all in sexy fun.






And here is what I wore that night...

 

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or at the very least Happy Winter Solstice!

2015 U.S. Transgender Survey Report is out

There is a lot of information in this report (you might want to start with the executive summary), you can find it @ http://www.ustranssurvey.org/report

Here are a few excerpts.

The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS) is the largest survey examining the experiences of transgender people in the United States, with 27,715 respondents from all fifty states.

In the year prior to completing the survey....

...Respondents reported high levels of mistreatment, harassment, and violence in every aspect of life. One in ten (10%) of those who were out to their immediate family reported that a family member was violent towards them because they were transgender, and 8% were kicked out of the house because they were transgender.

...30% of respondents who had a job reported being fired, denied a promotion, or experiencing some other form of mistreatment in the workplace due to their gender identity or expression, such as being verbally harassed or physically or sexually assaulted at work.

...46% of respondents were verbally harassed and 9% were physically attacked because of being transgender. During that same time period, 10% of respondents were sexually assaulted, and nearly half (47%) were sexually assaulted at some point in their lifetime.

The demographics are interesting (in the full report).

I'm in the 15% bracket.

I very incorrectly presumed the vast majority of us were assigned male at birth.





I'm surprised that 81.8% of respondents were White / European American.

Maybe that's due to economic disparity of ethnic minorities in America, so not much access to the Internet to be able to participate in the survey?