More work to be done for LGBTQ community msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
TJ Billard, an assistant professor at Northwestern University, is on a quest to fill the void of research about transgender people, culture and politics.
Federal surveys, most notably the U.S. census, donât collect data on the transgender population and the last comprehensive study, conducted by a national advocacy group, dates to 2015. The implications are far-reaching: Information cited to craft legislation that affects the transgender community can be incomplete at best and inaccurate at worst.
Billardâs new organization, the Chicago-based Center for Applied Transgender Studies, aims to provide a more thorough picture. As a nonprofit, it will tap transgender scholars from varying institutions to collaborate and conduct empirical research to help inform policymaking and public discourse.
New transgender studies center in Chicago aims to combat misinformation and lack of trans-led research msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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As many transgender Lawrentians know, legal name and gender changes are a necessity if we wish to be afforded the same level of institutional recognition and affirmation that our cisgender siblings enjoy. Unfortunately, due to the extremely high costs of pursuing these legal changes, these are privileges many of us can’t afford. A 2019 UCLA School of Law study found that trans people experience a particularly high poverty rate compared to the LGBTQ community as a whole: 29.4% of trans people live in poverty (Badgett, Choi and Wilson, 2019). This increased poverty rate contributes to the discrimination and violence the trans community faces, as gender-affirming measures are only accessible to the financially privileged.