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Re:Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electro... by Karawebnetwork on Friday December 16, 2022 @10:02AM (#34015263)
I would encourage you to look at the state of the world before you express your thoughts in public.

"A US study showed that [trans] individuals have lower socioeconomic status despite of having higher education level" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339204814_Transgend...

"Three out of 10 transgender adults lost their jobs recently or live with someone who did. [Compared to] One out of 10 cisgender men" https://publicintegrity.org/inside-publici/newsletters/watch...

"58% could not get academic transcripts with the correct name or sex designation" https://www.ourspectrum.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Workp...

"Transgender workers report unemployment at twice the rate of the population as a whole (14% vs. 7% at the time the workers were surveyed)." "More than four in 10 transgender people (44%) who are currently working are underemployed." "Transgender workers are nearly four times more likely than the population as a whole to have a household income of under $10,000 (15% vs. 4% at the time the workers were surveyed)." https://www.thetaskforce.org/transgender-workers-at-greater-...

"nearly 30 percent of transgender people in the United States are not in the workforce and are twice as likely as the cisgender population to be unemployed." https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/coronavirus-leadi...

"Transphobia rife among UK employers as 1 in 3 won't hire a transgender person" https://www.crosslandsolicitors.com/site/hr-hub/transgender-...

"Almost half of transgender people are unemployed, a survey by the Think-tank for Action on Social Change has found. Among the 51 per cent cent who had jobs, many settled for dismal salaries, the group’s research showed." https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/half-of-transgender-peopl...

"The unemployment rate for transgender and gender nonconforming respondents in Ontario has been estimated to be 20%, more than double the provincial average." https://www.hrpa.ca/hr-insights/the-hrpa-celebrates-gender-e....

"Trans Pulse Canada found that 24 percent of trans people have an annual income under $15,000, while 24 percent have an income between $15,000 and $30,000. With a poverty line of individual income at $25,920, almost half of trans people live either below the poverty line, or very close to it." https://xtramagazine.com/health/trans-health-canada-health-i...

"Employment: over one in three trans respondents felt discriminated against because of being trans when looking for a job (37 %), and a quarter (27 %) reported discrimination at work." https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra-2015-being-tra...

"Controlling for these and other observed characteristics, transgender individuals have significantly lower employment rates" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0019793920902776

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